My guest for this episode is playwright, screenwriter, director and doctor Sharmini Kumar, and we talk a little about being settlers in Australia, and her fraught relationship with the Western literary canon. Sharmini is the founder of AustenCo

Maria Lewis

Oct 8th, 2021 1h 37m

Just A Spoonful's 2021 season continues with best-selling author, Aurealis Award winner, journalist, screenwriter and assistant film curator at the ACMI museum of screen culture: Maria Lewis!Maria is a stroke survivor (this year is actually h

Scott Mercer

Sep 24th, 2021 1h 23m

Just A Spoonful is kicking off a new 2021 season with Brisbane-based musician and broadcaster Scott Mercer, a JASP fan turned JASP guest. Scott was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in his late twenties, and obviously his very first thought was

Robyn Lambird

Feb 12th, 2019 1h 2m

Robyn Lambird doesn't need your prayers, thanks! At the time of this interview, already an accomplished wheelchair athlete, public figure and the first visibly disabled adult to appear in a nationwide ad campaign in Australia, the 19-year-old i

Bhavani Esapathi

Sep 9th, 2018 1h 13m

The binary of healthy/sick is "lazy thinking", says tech innovation writer and researcher Bhavani Esapathi. The RSA Fellow and HuffPo blogger is passionate about shifting the narrative around chronic illness from "despite" to "because of". With

Carly Findlay

Sep 9th, 2018 1h 28m

“You're not like, you know, a REGULAR disability.”Carly Findlay fields all kinds of ridiculous comments about her appearance and her disability, ranging from the insensitive to the abusive. Some of them have taken her all the way to the Human

JASP is ending

Aug 3rd, 2017 11m 44s

After the couple of episodes that are left to come out, Just A Spoonful will be ending. I take a moment to talk about why, what making this podcast has meant for me, and what comes next.

Anna Spargo-Ryan

May 31st, 2016 1h 40m

"My first response was really, 'This is some kind of psychotic break, I'm having a delusion right now that my dream publisher wants to offer me a book deal.' I felt like that for quite a few weeks, actually."But it was not a delusion. Anna Sp

May The 12th Be With You

May 12th, 2016 18m 38s

May 12th is the International Day of Awareness for ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), a gravely misunderstood neurological disease. Up to 598,000 Australians live with ME/CFS, yet there is very little research funding

Jill Pantozzi

Mar 24th, 2016 1h 24m

Just A Spoonful's first international guest! Jill Pantozzi is a US-based pop culture journalist and former Editor-In-Chief of The Mary Sue, known online by her moniker The Nerdy Bird. Jill talks to me ahead of her appearance at Contact2016 in B

Leah Musch

Feb 28th, 2016 1h 15m

"It was a weird superpower." This is how Leah Musch describes obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to me, but only in certain contexts. It helped her retain an astounding amount of detail as the owner of The Happy Cabin clothing store in Brisban

Miranda Sparks

Dec 24th, 2015 1h 22m

"If you think we're brave, ask yourself why we have to be brave." My guest this episode is Miranda Sparks - comedian, radio personality, transgender advocate, and author of the superhero web serial Shimmerverse. Miranda talks to me about grow

Priscilla Sutton

Oct 27th, 2015 1h 7m

Priscilla Sutton is a right leg amputee, but in 2010 she found she had too many legs. Obsolete prosthetic legs, cluttering up her storage spaces. So, she came up with a unique way of honouring her pre-loved appendages. Priscilla is the founder

Amy Dallas

Apr 30th, 2015 1h 44m

"I couldn't get comfortable and was like, something's not right." Amy Dallas, founder and CEO of Brisbane fashion label Chronic Youth, has been living with chronic pain for seven years. She talks about the difficulty in getting a diagnosis, how

Benjamin McLeay (Thomas Violence)

Jan 29th, 2015 1h 47m

Thousands of people read Thomas Violence's tweets every day - funny, cutting, and sometimes a live feed into the hectic mind of someone with rapid-cycling Bipolar Type 1 Disorder. The man behind the Twitter account is Benjamin McLeay: web devel

Chloe Reeson

Dec 20th, 2014 1h 26m

Writer and funny woman Chloe Reeson thought she was just tweeting jokes about a routine mammogram; she didn't know she was live-tweeting the discovery of her breast cancer. The story of Chloe's cancer diagnosis is equal parts funny and sad, lik

Episode 5 - Erica Wheadon

Dec 4th, 2014 1h 54m

Being a photographer and videographer, it is Erica Wheadon's job to make meaningful connections with people - to understand her clients' needs. And she does it all while coping with the interpersonal difficulties of living with Asperger's Syndr

Mike Day

Nov 6th, 2014 1h 34m

"Mania is seductive." Mike Day is the drummer for Brisbane band Mega Ogre, as well as the winner of the SLQ Young Writer Award 2014. He lives with Bipolar Type 2 Disorder and anxiety, and also a cat. Mike tells me about losing friends during ma

Lefa Singleton Norton

Oct 23rd, 2014 2h 9m

Recorded at the 2014 National Young Writers Festival. My guest this episode is writer, editor, Creative Producer of Express Media and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome haver, Lefa Singleton Norton. We push through our festival brain fog to talk women in

Samuel Maguire

Oct 9th, 2014 1h 7m

Is The Truman Show real? We go deep. My guest this episode is Brisbane writer Samuel Maguire, whose work has been published in Stilts, The Lifted Brow, and Scum Mag. Sam is living with Bipolar Type 1 Disorder and an anxiety disorder and uses Th

Steph Dower

Sep 24th, 2014 49m 53s

Is putting Michael Bay's name on posters good marketing for Michael Bay films? Really? In this post-Transformers: Dark of the Moon world, my guest for Episode 1 is filmmaker, TV producer and general sasspot Steph Dower, who lives with a permane

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