Cracking On with Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts

Tegan Higginbotham spent ten years writing a show about killer garden gnomes and then had to audition for her own lead role. Today she sits down with Sam and Sarah to talk about the joy of writing funny, flawed women, why she walked away from stand up comedy for eight years and what finally brought her back. Tegan also shares why she believes in the beauty of humanity even when the news has her spiralling, why young people have every right to be angry and why that gives her hope.

Guest:

Tegan Higginbotham

Insta - @teganhigginbotham

Gnomes out now on Stan

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*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Matt Day has been one of Australia's most quietly brilliant actors for over 35 years, from A Country Practice to Shackleton working with Kenneth Branagh. But today he's here to talk about the stuff in between, the long silences, the self doubt and the Logies Hall of Fame induction that made him realise just how fast time folds in on itself. He also gets into his life as a writer and director, why short films are a sucker's game and why he keeps making them anyway.

Guest:

Matt Day

Insta - @mattlday

Photography and short films - http://mattday.com.au

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

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Lifeline: 13 11 14 | lifeline.org.au

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Both services also offer online chat support.

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Yael Stone has played some of the most complex women on screen but today she's just herself, and she's more interesting than any character she's ever played. She sits down with Sam and Sarah and opens up about her creative life, the role on Orange Is the New Black that took her into real prisons and changed everything, and the climate advocacy work she's doing now through Hi Neighbour, helping regional communities get ahead of the energy transition rather than left behind by it. She also gets into overcoming being a people pleaser, falling in love with the naughtiest kid in primary school and stealing push up bras from Kmart at fourteen.

Guest:

Yael Stone

Insta - @yaelstone

Learn more about Hi Neighbour - http://www.hineighbour.com.au

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

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If this conversation raises anything for listeners, support is available.

Lifeline: 13 11 14 | lifeline.org.au

Beyond Blue: 1300 22 46 36 | beyondblue.org.au

Both services also offer online chat support.

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Actor, comedian and producer Maddy Tyers joins Sam and Sarah to talk about the reality of an acting career when the phone stops ringing, why she stopped waiting to be chosen and started creating her own work, and her new Stan comedy The Sunny Disposition. Maddy also opens up about her recovery from anorexia, how an eating disorder affected her experience of pregnancy and motherhood, the unexpected job at Starlight Children's Foundation that changed her life and led her to husband Jimmy, and why giving up isn't an option.

Guest:

Maddy Tyers (The Sunny Disposition, The Elephant Princess, LEGO Masters Australia)

Insta @maddytyers

The Sunny Disposition — streaming on Stan and 9Now.

When Anna Came To Stay — written by Maddy Tyers and illustrated by Siobhan Skipworth.

Support:This episode includes discussion of eating disorders, body image and recovery.

Butterfly Foundation: butterfly.org.au

Butterfly National Helpline: 1800 33 4673

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Sam and Sarah are back for another Q&A, answering your questions that you have sent in. They get into what their younger selves would think of their lives today, Sam's confession about being a bit of a psycho in her 20s and finding the right person at 33. Sarah shares what makes her RAGE and why we all need to get better at celebrating our wins big and small.

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at http://thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Cameron Daddo has spent decades being one of Australia's most beloved faces, but today he's pulling back the curtain on the parts nobody saw. He sits down with Sam and Sarah and opens up about the moment a piece of blue paper arrived at the door telling them their house was being repossessed and why not paying attention to their finances nearly cost them everything. He also gets into why vulnerability isn't weakness, the value of a relationship tune up and what 35 years of marriage actually looks like behind the hashtags and couple goals comments.

Guest:

Cameron Daddo

Insta - @camerondaddo

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at http://thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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JR Reyne: Actor, musician and DJ, sits down with Sam and Sarah for a chat about grief and loss. He opens up about losing his godmother at 25, the rock bottom he's still learning to live with and the trip with his mum where they finally said goodbye together. They also chat about constant self doubt behind the cool exterior, why he diversifies to stay sane, and the music that instantly transports him back to the people and places he loves most.

Guest:

JR Reyne

Insta - @jjrreyne

@semio.studio

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at http://thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Joel Jackson didn't anticipate a career in acting when he was growing up, but when he applied to NIDA on a whim and was accepted, he soon fell in love with life on set.

Today Joel talks about the role of a lifetime that was ripped away two days before cameras rolled because of covid and the heartbreak that followed. Joel describes the months of isolation and financial insecurity as he slowly rebuilt his life after giving everything up for this dream.

Guest:

Joel Jackson (Peter Allen, Not the Boy Next Door, Deadline Gallipoli)

Insta - @joeljacksonofficial

This episode is brought to you by The Collagen Co. Discover the new Golden Gaytime™ Glow Shake and explore the full Glow Shake range at http://thecollagen.co and use the code CRACKINGON15 for fifteen percent off your first order!

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*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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We know him as the well dressed judge on MasterChef, but today Matt Preston is here to talk about life. He sits down with Sam and Sarah and gets into the conversations nobody has until it's too late, losing his mum to dementia, being a rubbish uninvolved dad in the early years and the rude awakening that changed everything.

Guest:

Matt Preston (MasterChef, The Hospital, Plating Locally)

Insta - @mattscravat

Memoir - Big Mouth

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Grace Tame sits down with Sam and Sarah to talk about who she actually is: the artist, the autistic woman, the daughter whose mum flew across the world to rescue her from a petrol station in San Francisco. She gets into people pleasing, the death threats she still receives, why secrets make you sick, and the creative part of her brain she's finally released from prison.

Guest:

Grace Tame

Insta - @tamepunk

Podcast Series - Autistic AF with Grace Tame

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Nathan Cavalieri survived leukemia at six, started touring music at twelve, and was in the middle of a bidding war between Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson before he was a teenager. But none of that is the most extraordinary thing about him. Today Nathan sits down with Sam and Sarah and opens up about the years nobody saw. A crippling battle with mental health that shrunk his world so small he was afraid to leave the house and panic attacks that stopped him performing. Nathan sits down with us for one of the most extraordinary conversations we've ever had. Mental health, fear, music and the long road back to himself.

Guest:

Nathan Cavaleri

@nathan_cavaleri

Tickets and Tour Dates http://nathancavaleri.com/

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Luke Van Os played Sam's brother on Home and Away, but before they were siblings on screen, they were strangers passing each other in a hospital corridor, both quietly losing someone they loved. Today he sits down with Sam and Sarah and opens up about the period nobody really saw, his dad dying suddenly, a six year relationship ending and doing it all alone in a new city with a brand new job. Luke also gets into why he no longer manifests, the importance of having a life outside of work and why future you needs present you to feel uncomfortable.

Guest:

Luke Van Os

Insta @lukevanos

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Today Jess Redmayne sits down with Sam and Sarah and opens up about the breakup that shattered her world and rebuilt her completely. The eight year relationship, the house, the dog and the societal boxes she was ticking for everyone but herself. She talks about losing her mum to dementia, her parents' extraordinary love story, and how her character Shelby from Steel Magnolias came to her at a time when she really needed her.

Guest:

Jessica Redmayne

Insta @jedmayne

Steel Magnolias Melbourne 23 July - 16 August. More info at http://steelmagnoliasplay.com

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Danielle Cormack has lived many lives, actress, radio host, and yes, even a drag king. But today she's just Danielle. She opens up about learning how to pivot, silencing the negative voice in your head, and the heartbreak of being blindsided when her beloved character Bea was killed off Wentworth. Danielle also gets into the trenches of menopause and the morning ritual that's been changing everything.

Guest:

Danielle Cormack

Insta @_daniellecormack_

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Pete Helliar is one of Australia's most beloved comedians, writer, actor, Rove Live legend, and the man behind It's A Date and How To Stay Married. But today he gets real. Pete opens up about the joke that caused an 'international kerfuffle’, receiving death threats from Honduras, and the moment that changed everything - losing his dear friend and writing partner Richard Marsland. A conversation about grief, male mental health and the loyalty of great friendships.

Guest:

Peter Helliar (The Project, Rove Live, How To Stay Married)

Insta - @pjhelliar

‘An International Kerfuffle’ Comedy Tour Dates: http://comedy.com.au/tour/pete-helliar

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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This week, Sam and Sarah are answering your questions that you have sent in. Get to know the girls on a deeper level as they share with you their experiences of female friendship, life on Home and Away, using humour as a shield and so much more.

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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He's played soldiers, doctors, neurosurgeons and Spartans but the role Ditch Davey is most proud of is dad. Ditch opens up about arriving at drama school and being told for the first time in his life that he couldn't read and the extraordinary journey of learning how at 20 years old, word by word, Disney tape by Disney tape. He also shares why turning 50 has been the greatest gift and the joys of every stage of fatherhood.

Guest

Ditch Davey (Home & Away, Blue Heelers, Spartacus)

Insta @ditchdaveyofficial

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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Award-winning actor Susie Porter has built an extraordinary career, but behind the success were years of uncertainty, self-doubt, and learning how to keep going when things didn’t go to plan. Joining Sam and Sarah, she reflects on the mindset shifts, spiritual practices, and life lessons that helped her navigate the unpredictable world of acting. From manifestation and gratitude to love, advocacy, and the healing power of service, this is a thoughtful conversation about trusting the journey and staying open to what comes next.

Guest

Susie Porter (Wentworth, Puberty Blues, The Artful Dodger)

Insta @_susieporter_

And we encourage you to support these charities Susie mentioned in this episode:

World Animal Protection http://worldanimalprotection.org.au

Animals Asia http://animalsasia.org

Voiceless http://voiceless.org.au

Sydney Dogs & Cats Home http://sydneydogsandcatshome.org

DoggieRescue.com (Monika's Rescues) http://doggierescue.com

Nup to the Cup http://nuptothecup.org

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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When nobody would give Nick Giannopoulos a role, he created his own. In this episode, he joins Sam and Sarah to talk about growing up above his parents’ milk bar, the unexpected rise of Wogs Out of Work, betting everything on The Wog Boy, and the moment he realised just how much of his success came from his father. It’s a conversation about backing yourself, finding your audience, and why waiting for permission rarely works.

Guest

Nick Giannopoulos (Wogs Out of Work, Acropolis Now, The Wog Boy)

Insta @nick_giannopoulos

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

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How do you build a career with no map and no rulebook? Myf Warhurst has done exactly that, from triple j to Spicks and Specks to her own podcast The Moment. In this episode she joins Sam and Sarah to talk about quietly opening doors for women in radio, why every sacking and curveball pushed her somewhere better, and how she learned to back herself and play by her own rules. It's about reinvention, failing without fear, and the simple, powerful truth that you get to choose who you become... at any age.

Guest

Myf Warhurst (Bluey, Spicks & Specks, The Moment)

Insta @myfwarhurst

‘Middle Rage’ Myf’s new book is in pre-sale now http://geni.us/MiddleRage

*Hosted by Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, Cracking On is a podcast about the beautiful chaos of picking yourself up, resetting, and getting on with it. Each episode explores the funny, messy and inspiring ways people navigate change, whether that's a career curveball, a personal setback, or an unexpected new direction.

Stay Connected:

@crackingonpodcast

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@samfrost

@__sarahroberts__

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