Tubie Talks
A series celebrating people and families who tube-feed.
Episodes
10 episodes
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...
