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Today’s guest is someone who defined an entire generation.
As one-fifth of the most iconic girl group in history, the Spice Girls, she helped shape pop culture, redefine girl power, and influence how millions of young women saw themselves.

Melanie C or Sporty Spice as many of us first knew her is a dancer, singer, songwriter, author, and performer whose career spans nearly three decades. Today we wanted to chat with Melanie about what that journey was really like behind the scenes, how she carved out her own path with her solo career, the various things she is doing now and what it meant to her to have such an impact on our culture.

We chat:

• Mel being recognised during a medical appointment
• Recording her 9th studio album here in Australia
• Why Melanie feels connected to the Australian culture
• How Mel met her Aussie boyfriend
• How the Spice Girls started
• The brutality of the UK media and all of their phones being hacked
• How being so young in the public eye affected Mel and contributed to her having an eating disorder
• How the Spice Girls didn’t choose their own nicknames
• They love like sisters and bicker like sisters
• How Geri choosing to leave affected them all differently
• The Spice Girl that Melanie is now closest to
• Starting her solo career
• Whether they could all live off of royalties now and if they ‘choose’ to work

You can find everything from Melanie including her new song ‘Sweat’ at her website

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Hey Lifers,
Britt is struggling today. She’s come down with an illness and we are rolling the dice today.
Laura’s on her first outing without Poppy at 6 weeks old and she’s learnt that she’s not the most considered or prepared parent.

Laura and Keeshia have both been sent beautiful cards from listeners and we truly do have the best listeners in the world. However, Britt has checked with reception and nothing. No deliveries for Britt 😂

Britt had a sleepover at Keeshia’s house and has used products that were not meant for her.
Is Oasis men’s Taylor Swift? The whole team was meant to go to the concert on the weekend but Keeshia ended up being the only one to make it and she’s never seen more affection or love be shared between millennial/Gen X men and she’s even been to football grand finals!

The other day Britt shared how a friend of hers had accidentally text the guy she had been briefly dating instead of her friend telling him that there were "no hot men on the plane" and that she was disappointed. We asked what you accidentally sent and your stories did not disappoint!

Shay Mitchell has launched a new children’s skincare brand called Rini that makes products like sheet masks for… 3 year olds. Shay has said that it was inspired by her own girls wanting to do ‘what mummy does’ with her face masks and that “Rini isn’t about beauty it’s about self-care.”

We speak about whether we are living in the final stage of capitalism where children’s unblemished skin is an untapped market and the conditioning of beauty standards in kids. At what age do you think kids should be introduced to skincare beyond sunscreen and gentle cleanser?

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Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne

Produced by Keeshia Pettit

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