Curveball – The Club you didn't want to be part of
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Curveball – The Club you didn't want to be part of
Curveball is a podcast about life's unexpected moments with a black comedy tell-it-like-it-is approach. These late-night chats, hosted by Beth Armstrong, share the nitty-gritty truth from three women as they speak anonymously and frankly of their particular club's lows, surprises misconceptions, and...
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Mid-Life Straight Male Sex Workers - Part 2
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This is Part 2! Please listen to Part 1 first. Touch and sexual expression are a fundamental part of our humanity, a powerful way...
Mid-Life Straight Male Sex Workers - Part 1
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Touch and sexual expression are a fundamental part of our humanity, a powerful way to connect with others and ourselves. Sex as a...
Sex Workers - Life Lessons Part 2
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We all have a different understanding of our sexuality. Depending on our circumstances and upbringing, many of us are left to dis...
Sex Workers - Life Lessons Part 1
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We all have a different understanding of our sexuality. Depending on our circumstances and upbringing, many of us are left to dis...
Homelessness - Part Two
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What happens when you can't pay the rent or find anywhere cheaper? Perhaps you or your dependents are ill, divorce or loss has le...
Homelessness - Part One
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What happens when you can't pay the rent or find anywhere cheaper? Perhaps you or your dependents are ill, divorce...
Alcoholism - Part 2
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Part Two - we highly recommend listening to Part 1 first!
In Australia, drinking alcohol is invariably a rite of pas...
Alcoholism - Part 1
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In Australia, drinking alcohol is invariably a rite of passage into adulthood, an intrinsic part of our culture for better or wor...
Mature Age Students - Second Adulthood
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We leave school with plans to study or work and an idea of how life might unfold, but as the saying goes: "Life is what happens w...
Family Court Trauma - Part 2
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This is Part 2. We highly recommend you listen to Part 1 first.
When we partner and have children, no one imagines...
Family Court Trauma - Part 1
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When we partner and have children, no one imagines they will end up in family court fighting to access those children or keep the...
Falling In Love Unexpectedly - Part 1
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Humans are social creatures wired to seek connection, and we grow up with stories of romantic love and the assumption we will par...
Falling In Love Unexpectedly - Part 2
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Part Two (We highly recommend listening to Part One first)
Humans are social creatures wired to seek connection, and we gr...
Estranged From Fathers - Part 1
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Our fathers are pivotal in our lives, assuming they're present as role models and caregivers - we hope they love us and have our...
Estranged From Fathers - Part 2
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Part Two ( We highly recommend you listen to Part One first)
Our fathers are pivotal in our lives, assuming they're presen...
Curveball - Emigration Experience Part 1
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The decision is to pack up and move away from your extended family, friends, and culture to live in a foreign land. Perhaps for w...
Curveball - Emigration Experience Part 2
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Part Two
This is a conversation between three women from different countries (Brazil, Singapore and India), strangers with...
Curveball - Single Mothers By Choice
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As children, we read stories about romance and living happily ever after. We learn there’s a script to follow: find our passion,...
Later Life Lesbians - Part 1
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You’re married or partnered, maybe have children, a career and your identity is heterosexual, but then you’re single again and un...
Later Life Lesbians - Part 2
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Part Two (We recommend listening to Part One first)
The conversation continues. Guided by the host, Beth Armstrong, three...
Curveball - Child Abuse Part 1
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As children, we grow and learn the ways of the world and what is right and wrong. Our parents and carers, who we rely on, are our...
Curveball - Child Abuse Part 2
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Part Two (We highly recommend you listen to Part One first)
The host, Beth Armstrong, guides an in-depth discussion between...
Domestic Violence - Intimate Partner
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We meet someone, fall in love, and develop a relationship, but then something happens, and your partner hurts, manipulates or fri...
Curveball - Estranged From Mothers
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Our mothers birth us and/or raise us, and if so, are naturally pivotal in our lives as role models and caregivers - we hope they...
Grew Up In A Cult And Escaped - Part 2
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Part Two (We recommend listening to Part One first)
We are born into a family with a set of values and beliefs that might...
Grew Up In A Cult And Escaped - Part 1
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We are born into a family with a set of values and beliefs that might evolve. Some families are strict adherents to a particular...
Type 1 Diabetes
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What is it like to be diagnosed with Diabetes Type One, a misunderstood chronic condition with no cure, requiring constant, lifel...
Mums of Disabled Kids
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You’re having a baby - what will they look like, and who will they become? As they grow, we observe milestones, but then comes an...
Curveball - Infertility - Conceiving Reality
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We grow up with the story that we'll likely have children one day. We usually spend some time trying not to get pregnant until on...
Mid-life Sexual Awakening
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Sexuality is something we discover in our youth, usually developing relationships, and somehow our sexuality is established. Som...
Suicide of a Loved One
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Three women share their deeply personal and quite different stories about a family member or partner taking their own life in an...
Stepparenting – Survival
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You fall in love with a person, and they come as a package, with kids. Maybe you have your kids too. How does that work? An intri...
Late Termination
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You are excited about your growing baby and the new addition to your family until the unthinkable happens when you learn your bab...
Mums of Transgender Kids
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Mums of Transgender Kids - What happens when you think you have a boy or a girl, only to have your child tell you otherwise? We d...
Single Mums – Separation Aftermath
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No one gets married and has children planning to divorce. No matter how you got there – the person leaving or left; you have to...
Stillbirth
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We crack wide open a taboo topic with three women speaking with incredible honesty and depth about the impact of losing their chi...
Lost Your Marbles – Psych Ward Stories
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What is it like to live with mental illness, including psychosis and time spent in and out of psych wards?
Beth Arm...
Welcome to Curveball
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Welcome to the hotly anticipated podcast series by host Beth Armstrong. Here’s a taste of what’s to come in a series that delves...