Tubie Talks
A series celebrating people and families who tube-feed.
Episodes
14 episodes
Haley Stewart: A million-plus followers and a whole lot of hope
Haley Stewart was a teenager, tube-fed and living in a tiny town in Montana when her grandma convinced her to post a video. It changed everything.In the final episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph chats with Haley about growing up whi...
Lily-Rose Burnell: Meeting Billie Eilish between ICU stays
Lily-Rose "Rosie" Burnell has been septic 17 times and in ICU six times – and she's not afraid to talk about what that's done to her mental health.In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with her dear friend Rosie, rec...
Freya Steindl: TPN, Taylor Swift and travelling the world
Freya Steindl has been on TPN since she was a baby – and it hasn't stopped her running half marathons, rock climbing or road-tripping across the US-Canada border for the Eras Tour.In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph chats wi...
Lilly Downs: Cheerios and coming off tubes
Missed prom, met her people online, and came off every tube she had.In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with 21-year-old Lilly Downs to talk life after a COVID diagnosis turned everything upside down. They cover fe...
Amelia Tang: Let's talk body image
Misbehaving feeding tubes, changing bodies and moving cities to breathe.In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with disability advocate Amelia Tang to talk ME/CFS, mast cell disease, Cushing syndrome, body image, dati...
Coady Gillis: Self-advocating queen
Besties, feeding tubes, hospital drama and a bit of rule-breaking.In the first episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with her friend Coady Gillis to talk friendship, chronic illness, self-advocacy and the people who...
Tubie Talks is back. And Steph Kelly has the mic 🎙️
Steph Kelly is your host for season two of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up. She's about to hook you up with a cast of people who, like her, are living life – working, playing, travelling, dating and doing it all – with chronic illness, disabili...
The tube-feeding TikTok star: Steph's story
She's got a G-tube, J-tube, TPN and half a million social media followers. Meet Steph Kelly, a Sydney nurse who's built a colossal community by candidly sharing what it's like to live with feeding tubes, frequent hospital stays and a leng...
Going (and growing) with the flow: Riley's story
This is a story about a girl called Riley. One of four sisters who, along with mum, Grecian, and dad, Justin, enjoys drawing, outdoor adventures and ice-cream treats in her sunny home of Perth, tube-feeding all the way. Join me as I cha...
Coffee, cake and crafting: Kym's story
She blends up cheese platters with wine, pours espressos down her feeding-tube and calls Spotlight "the mothership". Meet Kym Adams, a Brisbane local with a wicked sense of humour and, as her friend Skubi puts it, "mad crafting skills". <...
It takes a tubie village: Luke’s story
Let’s visit Sydney’s sunny suburb of Gymea and spend a day with a charming almost-three-year-old and his family, shall we? Luke Joseph has been tube-feeding since the day he was born and while he kept his parents, Eliana and Michael, and many m...
He did tube-feeding his way: Pedro’s story
He’s got the body of '80s-era Arnold Schwarzenegger, making him the polar opposite of what most people expect when they think of a tube-feeder. Meet Pedro Relvas, a former professional bodybuilder and personal trainer who faced enormous health ...
How we found our happy (bl)ending: Arlo’s story
Welcome to Tubie Talks, a podcast series celebrating the lives of people and families who tube-feed. I’m your host, author, journalist and tube-feeding parent, Melanie Dimmitt, and in this series I’ll be chatting with a vibrant mix of guests ab...
