Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
You know who's going through BIG STUFF? Literally everyone. But it's how you handle it that makes the difference.
Award-winning author and life coach Danielle Colley gets real about the relentless expectations we put on ourselves, the comparison trap, and the gap between how life looks and how it actually feels.
For ambitious women who may be crushing their goals but are feeling crushed by them. Conversations that matter. A little advice, a little inspiration, and a lot of humanness. No toxic positivity - just raw honesty about what it really takes to thrive.
If you're burnt out from achieving everything or tired of pretending it's all fine, this is for you. Because life should feel GOOD to live.
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Episodes
30 episodes
Melinda Schneider - 40 Years Being Perfect And The Cost No One Saw
Melinda Schneider has been on stage since she was three years old. She's released fourteen albums, won six Golden Guitars, sold out the Sydney Opera House more than once, and just debuted at number one on the ARIA charts. By every measure, she ...
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Episode 32
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What Your Home Says About You | Swedish Death Cleaning, Identity Shifts & Letting Go with Cindy Kavanagh
What if the clutter in your home isn't just stuff — it's a story you're still telling about yourself? In this episode, Danielle sits down with Cindy Kavanagh, former fashion photographer turned Swedish Death Cleaning practitioner, for a convers...
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Episode 31
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Your kid isn't the problem. You are - with family therapist, Lisa Taylor
Have you ever completely lost your cool with your kid and then spent the next hour feeling like the worst parent alive? Family therapist and author of The Perfect Parent Trap, Lisa Taylor, has spent 25 years sitting across from families in cris...
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Episode 30
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Redefining Success on Your Own Terms; Building a Life That Actually Fits
In this episode, Danielle sits down with double ARIA Award-winning musician, Elana Stone, to explore what it really means to build a sustainable creative life when the entire economic system has shifted underneath you. Tw...
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Episode 29
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Gender Violence, Healthy Masculinity and The Conversations We Need To Have With Boys
What happens when a Muay Thai champion decides the real fight isn't in the ring—it's saving boys from the stereotypes that are killing them?Richie Hardcore knows exactly what happens when boys grow up watching men solve problems w...
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Episode 28
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“You Used To Be Fun” The Throw Away Comment The Made Me Reassess My Relationship
What happens when a tipsy joke about not being fun anymore cracks a marriage wide open?A few weeks ago, I sat across from my husband at a café and told him he could leave. Not in anger - in complete pragmatic calm. These are my kids, thi...
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Episode 27
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26:49
Undercover With Scammers: What a Former Detective Learned About Love Scams
Looking for love makes you vulnerable. And vulnerability? That's where shame lives.Kylee Dennis knows this better than most. When her mum got love scammed after 25 years of being single, the thing that hurt more than the money lost was w...
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Episode 26
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1:12:16
Your Body Is Keeping Secrets - What Happens When You Start Listening?
Your body's keeping secrets from you. Not because it wants to hide things, but because you've been taught to ignore, shove down, and repress experiences, thoughts, and feelings you haven't had the time or resources to handle. That knot in your ...
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Episode 25
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47:17
Is Life Happening To You Or For You? - Rethinking Pain Without Toxic Positivity
"Everything happens for a reason" - sometimes those words feel like a punch in the gut when you're drowning in grief, fear, or anger. But what if there's a different way to look at life's hardest moments that doesn't feel like toxic positivity?...
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Episode 22
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How to Stop Living Under Other People’s Expectations
A listener wrote in feeling completely torn apart by the weight of expectations. Family expectations, societal expectations, and the brutal “shoulds” we place on ourselves.In this How Are You Really? episode of Big S...
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Episode 21
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33:17
The Floating Prison of Shame: How Bombing on Stage Became My Superpower
Jordana Borensztajn, a comedian, communication expert and mentalist, joins the show to share how her most humiliating moments became the fuel for her career. From bombing so badly on a cruise ship that an elderly passenger told her to get of...
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Episode 20
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Why Grief Feels Like A Brain Injury (And Other Things Nobody Tells You About Loss)
In this deeply personal episode recorded only weeks after her mother’s death through voluntary assisted dying, Danielle shares the raw reality of grief, far beyond the familiar sadness people expect. She opens up about dissociation at work e...
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Episode 19
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32:21
Divorce, Solo Parenting, and Kids With Challenges - Turning hard times into a wonderful life
In this powerful episode divorce coach and founder of Women's Divorce Academy, Carolyn Tate, shares the heartbreaking yet inspiring journey of supporting her son Connor through a life-threatening crisis that ultimately revealed his truth which ...
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Episode 18
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1:08:50
Owning Your Story With Beauty Industry Disruptor, Lisa Schweighoffer
What happens when you stop apologising for your choices with one tiny word? Lisa Schweighoffer went from saying "I'm just a stay-at-home mom" to co-founding Boost Lab, the irreverent skincare brand that's disrupting beauty by refusi...
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Episode 17
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56:53
The Day Before: My Mum's Final Hours Before Voluntary Assisted Death
Trigger warning: Episode discusses death, grief and choosing to die. This is part two of a series. If you haven't listened to Episode 12 where I first introduced you to my mum Carolyn and her decision to pursue voluntary a...
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Episode 16
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From Runaway Bride to Real Love: A Therapist's Journey
Two months before her wedding, Dr. Phoebe Rogers, a clinical psychologist and couples therapist and she was having secret panic attacks. Every time she pictured herself saying “I do,” she imagined herself bolting from the ...
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Episode 15
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56:36
When Success Feels Empty: Cooper Chapman on Losing It All & Finding the 1% That Matters
What happens when the thing you've built your entire life around suddenly disappears?Cooper Chapman was a top 100 professional surfer living what looked like the dream, traveling the world, sponsored by major brands, representi...
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Episode 14
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57:06
The Self-Worth Trap: Why You’ll Never Feel Enough (Until You Do)
A listener’s raw confession stopped me in my tracks: “I know I’m not worthy because I fuck up.” She’s paying off $100K in debt, thriving at work, and being an amazing mom yet she wouldn’t let her daughters speak to themselves the way she spe...
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Episode 13
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21:22
Choosing Her Exit: Dying With Dignity, Mama-Bear Style
Danielle’s beloved mother, Carolyn Colley, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 35 years. Now facing imminent respiratory and renal failure, she's been granted voluntary assisted death in New South Wales and she's happier than she's been in...
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Episode 12
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55:59
Parenting After Loss and How Radical Reframes Change Everything
When Andy Whitfield died at 39 from cancer, his widow Vashti faced an impossible question: How do you survive profound loss while raising two young children alone? In this deeply honest conversation about grief, solo parenting, and personal ...
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Episode 11
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1:03:06
Growing Apart: When Only One Is Doing The Emotional Labour
Does it ever feel like you’re the only one doing the emotional work in your relationship? This episode dives into the emotional labor imbalance that shows up when one partner is growing, healing, and evolving — while the other stays the same...
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Episode 10
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24:34
From Drug Dealer (And Danielle’s Worst Boyfriend Ever) To Men’s Mental Health Champion
This powerful episode features Preston O'Brien, a men's mental health advocate and founder of Every Sunday Motorcycle Collective (so you don’t kill yourself between Monday and Saturday) and The Triumphant Man. He’s sharing his journey from c...
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Episode 9
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1:15:17
The Brutal and Beautiful Truth of Losing a Parent; Coping After The Death Of A Parent
Casey Beros had interviewed hundreds of medical experts and built her career teaching people how to navigate healthcare. But when her father was diagnosed with terminal mesothelioma (asbestos cancer), all her professional expertise meant not...
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Episode 8
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1:10:08
ADHD and Perimenopause; What Happened With My Midlife ADHD Diagnosis
Three years ago I thought I was losing my mind—snappy with my family, flat in my business, and waking up with zero desire to face the day. What I didn’t know then was that perimenopause had turned up the volume on something I’d been living with...
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Episode 7
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29:10
Two Feet In: The Woman Who Applied for a One-Way Ticket to Mars
What would you do if offered the adventure of a lifetime - knowing you could never come home again?Dr. Dianne McGrath said yes. Out of 200,000 applicants worldwide, she made it to the final 100 candidates for Mars One - a one-way ...
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Episode 6
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