• Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie

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Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie

By: LiSTNR
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  • In 2015, Rosie Waterland published her first book, a memoir called "The Anti-Cool Girl". The book is about her childhood, her growing up, and her becoming an adult; all with mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicted parents, child protection, foster care, caravans and couches. There were crazy and very difficult times but also some funny times too. Rosie is 30 now, her mum Lisa is now 53. Since the book came out, the one question Rosie is always asked is more than any other is, "Has your Mum read the book?" Lisa hadn't read it for a while, because her drinking was so bad that she physically or emotionally couldn't. But in 2016, Lisa got sober. She has maintained that sobriety for the longest period Rosie has ever seen and.. she has finally read the book. She has many thoughts. The first of which is that most of Rosie's memoir is a lie.   Now is their time to talk all about it. In each episode Rosie reads a chapter from the book, and then Rosie and Lisa talk through it - is it all true or false? What really happened? Each chapter becomes a real conversation about the past, present and future for Rosie and Lisa.
    2024 315850 LiSTNR - Text, image, music and sound comprising this podcast are owned by or licensed to SCA. By accessing, communicating or using this podcast, you agree to be bound by the terms available at https://www.listnr.com/terms
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  • Chapter 22: you will become an anti-cool girl

    Chapter 22: you will become an anti-cool girl
    Feb 27 2018

    The final episode! Host Rosie Waterland's spent a lifetime struggling to understand why she wasn't a cool kid, constantly wondering just what she was missing. From her early days trying to hide her poo pants from her sister's friends, to later days doing drugs and pretending to enjoy sex with boys who were terrible at it, she now confesses that she was always fixated on trying to impress everyone around her.

    Then for a very brief and exhausting moment, Rosie found herself on the inside looking out. That moment then followed with her writing her first book 'The Anti-Cool Girl' and now this series where she has been able to look back on her life with the woman who knows her better than anyone else. This final episode looks back at all that they have spoken about, how it all ties in together and where that leaves Rosie and mum Lisa's relationship from here.

    'Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie - The Live Event' is in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in April and May. Tickets available now at http://www.frontiercomedy.com/rosiewaterland

    Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
    Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
    Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
    Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    44 mins
  • Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult

    Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult
    Feb 19 2018

    When you're twenty-seven years old and realise that you have no clue how to post a letter, it's obvious something has gone very wrong somewhere along the line.

    Now that host Rosie Waterland was out there living on her own as a functioning adult, she realised she didn't know as much as she thought she did about being a functioning adult. She had somehow, against all odds, made it to her late twenties, but there were just some things she had missed along the way. Filling in the missing pieces meant for some very awkward conversations with shop assistants, work colleagues and family members.

    Rosie and Lisa talk about those things she missed, but Lisa isn't having a bar of some of what Rosie says.

    'Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie - The Live Event' is in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in April and May. Tickets available now at http://www.frontiercomedy.com/rosiewaterland

    Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/

    Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
    Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
    Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    38 mins
  • Chapter 20: someone will play Jenga with your face and their penis, and you will consider it a sexual revolution

    Chapter 20: someone will play Jenga with your face and their penis, and you will consider it a sexual revolution
    Feb 6 2018

    If Lisa thought there was ever going to be an episode from Rosie's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl' that was going to make her squirm, this is it. This one is about host Rosie Waterland's more adult escapades: the time she scared a penis back inside itself and the time Rosie went on her first and only Tinder date only for it to turn out very differently to how she thought it would. It's not very often that a mother and her grown daughter get to discuss sex, but here it is for all to listen to in all its glorious detail.

    'Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie - The Live Event' is in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in April and May. Tickets available now at http://www.frontiercomedy.com/rosiewaterland

    Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
    Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
    Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
    Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    51 mins
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