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Chapter 14: you will lose your virginity, followed by your mind
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
12/12/17 • 41 min
The lucky boy was Josh - a day student from the College - who host Rosie Waterland's had started dating during her final few weeks there. After a few false starts, Rosie's path of self-discovery was on. It was also a period of time Rosie realised a boyfriend could help fill a void in her life. A boyfriend could be like a dependency, like a drug: why deal with a pesky depression that was slowly overtaking your brain, when it disappears every time you snuggle into your boyfriends shoulder? Why bother learning to feel strong for yourself, when he can be strong for you?
It wasn't the best way to handle things at the time, especially when Rosie's mental health was about to turn to jelly. Josh was a loyal and caring boyfriend but the going for Rosie was rough.
If this episode causes any concerns, please contact Lifeline on 131144 or at www.lifeline.org.au
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
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Chapter 4: your friends will find a dead body in the bush, and it will be your dad
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
09/06/17 • 32 min
"There's a dead guy! A dead guy!" This sighting at Smurf Village got all the children running to see. Rosie and her sister knew who it was straight away.. and it scared them. Host Rosie Waterland's dad would appear at random moments and how he turned up was different every time. What would happen when Dad would take the girls ice skating? Why were they always kicked out of the shopping centre by security? And what was Dad's way of getting ready for a picnic?
Rosie Waterland's 'Crazy Lady' tour is touring Australia in September and October. For tickets, head to http://www.frontiercomedy.com/rosiewaterland
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Chapter 18: you will watch your mum attempt suicide, and realise that she's the only one who understands you
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
01/23/18 • 30 min
Just like when Rosie was little, something about Mum calling her 'darling' calmed her down. After spending almost a month in a mental home, that's exactly what host Rosie Waterland needed. And Lisa understood that. She was the only person in Rosie's life who understood what she was going through. So with Lisa's help, Rosie jumped on a plane to Dubbo and was soon being cared for by Mum with roast chicken and cheesy potato bake. Lisa might not have always been there for Rosie in life; but this week, this one week, she was.
But Rosie couldn't help but think how she had seen her Lisa in just as much pain only a few years back, and at that point Rosie had left mum on her own. This look back is about these two moments in Rosie and Lisa's lives.
If any of this episode causes distress or concern, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or at www.lifeline.org.au or contact your health care professional.
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 16: your second set of parents will abandon you. damn.
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
01/11/18 • 31 min
Through her time at boarding school and then at drama school, host Rosie Waterland had been looked after by her uncle and aunt. Then one day, they asked her to leave. Rosie wondered if it was because they found out she had peed herself at the local supermarket.
Rosie's uncle and aunt were wealthy. They had taken her in when life at home got out of control; they sent her to a fancy boarding school and then paid for her short time at uni and then at drama school. They helped her to keep moving with her life and even paid for Rosie to go to therapy. But Rosie's life problems were more complicated than that, and Rosie admits that she was not easy to deal with during that journey. By the time Rosie's challenges got more serious, Uncle Ben and Auntie Natasha were married with children of their own, and were itching to live life as a family.. a family that didn't include the weird, withdrawn niece who dropped out of uni and hid in her room all the time: Rosie was the odd one out.
There was a lot going in Rosie's life at the time, and it was hard for her to work out was going in her own head, let alone including others in her struggles. Rosie and Lisa look back at the end of this time of her life, how and why it happened and what happened after that. Oh, and there is also the issue of how good Rosie is at looking after a dog.
If this episode causes any distress, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or at www.lifeline.org.au
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 15: you will go to a very crappy drama school and do a very crappy naked scene
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
12/19/17 • 34 min
host Rosie Waterland knew that she would chicken out. She knew it all the way through the rehearsal and all day before the first performance. It was 2006 and it was Rosie's second year at a very crappy drama school. But drama school wasn't just about learning to act, it was how Rosie found her soul mates - a like-minded community of people who wanted to laugh at life and then skip movement class to go to the pub.
Rosie reminisces about this happy time in her life - the acting classes, going out and a mishap with a guy after a party on a golf course green. It's one thing though writing these stories for a book, but a completely different thing to read these stories out loud to your Mum.
This episode contains sex and drug themes.
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
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Chapter 13: you will try to fit in at a very exclusive private boarding school - and fail spectacularly
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
12/05/17 • 46 min
The next chapter of host Rosie Waterland's life saw her living with her Uncle Ben, who enrolled her in a very fancy boarding school. At first glance, this was an amazing turn of events: from a life of constantly moving houses, situations and people to a place with steady and protective care and learning for the next three years. Rosie had never experienced so much consistency in her entire life; she thrived on this new routine.
To start off Rosie was so, so happy. It was going to be the best time of her life.. until the bullying started. Already feeling out of place to begin with, the bullying dominated the next three years of Rosie's life. Rosie and Lisa look back on this time: how the bullying impacted Rosie then and the following chapters of her life, and how she dealt with it.
This episode contains themes that some listeners may find distressing. If it does, please contact:
Lifeline on 131114 or at https://www.lifeline.org.au/ or
Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or at https://kidshelpline.com.au/
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: you will be fed up before you've even left the womb
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
08/22/17 • 33 min
In the middle of the night host Rosie Waterland's Mum and Dad pack everything in the car and flee Sydney to escape bikie drug dealers after a deal did not exactly go to plan. Mum and Dad escape to Tumut, with Rosie in Lisa's tummy and Rosie's big sister safe in the back seat of the car. But is that what really happened on that fateful night? Lisa's recollection is somewhat different to the story Rosie has been able to piece together over the years; and fleeing Sydney in the middle of the night isn't just about getting away from bikies..
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Chapter 22: you will become an anti-cool girl
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
02/27/18 • 43 min
The final episode! Host Rosie Waterland's spent a lifetime struggling to understand why she wasn't a cool kid, constantly wondering just what she was missing. From her early days trying to hide her poo pants from her sister's friends, to later days doing drugs and pretending to enjoy sex with boys who were terrible at it, she now confesses that she was always fixated on trying to impress everyone around her.
Then for a very brief and exhausting moment, Rosie found herself on the inside looking out. That moment then followed with her writing her first book 'The Anti-Cool Girl' and now this series where she has been able to look back on her life with the woman who knows her better than anyone else. This final episode looks back at all that they have spoken about, how it all ties in together and where that leaves Rosie and mum Lisa's relationship from here.
'Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie - The Live Event' is in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in April and May. Tickets available now at http://www.frontiercomedy.com/rosiewaterland
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
02/19/18 • 37 min
When you're twenty-seven years old and realise that you have no clue how to post a letter, it's obvious something has gone very wrong somewhere along the line.
Now that host Rosie Waterland was out there living on her own as a functioning adult, she realised she didn't know as much as she thought she did about being a functioning adult. She had somehow, against all odds, made it to her late twenties, but there were just some things she had missed along the way. Filling in the missing pieces meant for some very awkward conversations with shop assistants, work colleagues and family members.
Rosie and Lisa talk about those things she missed, but Lisa isn't having a bar of some of what Rosie says.
'Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie - The Live Event' is in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in April and May. Tickets available now at http://www.frontiercomedy.com/rosiewaterland
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/<br>Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/<br>Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 17: you will end up in a mental institution
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie
01/16/18 • 45 min
When a guy wearing nothing but a bedsheet as a toga pushes in front of you in the dinner line so he can get better dibs on the custard, you know you've hit rock bottom. Host Rosie Waterland's was twenty-four, and was in a mental institution. Pretty much nailing life. It all began when she found the boy - a perfect, funny, good-looking boy whom she met while at her job working at the movies. Rosie's year-long destructive partying phase was over, and this boy was the next distraction.
Although she didn't realise it at the time, Rosie needed a disaster at this point in her life to push her down to rock bottom, so that she could finally learn how to claw her own way out and build her own life. This boy was that disaster.
When things weren't going her way in the relationship, Rosie started to panic. Her state of mind began to deteriorate rapidly and before she knew it, she was in need of serious help. Seven years after these events, Rosie now revisits this time of her life. She's two years older after having originally written about it in 'The Anti-Cool Girl', and even after such a short time some things seem different again, especially with Lisa's own personal working experience having worked as a mental health nurse.
If any of this episode causes distress or concern, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or at www.lifeline.org.au or contact your health care professional.
Based on Rosie Waterland's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl'. Buy it here: https://rosiewaterland.com/books/
Find Rosie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosieWaterlandOnline/
Follow Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiewaterland/
Follow Rosie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiewaterland
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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How many episodes does Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie have?
Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie currently has 22 episodes available.
What topics does Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Personal Journals and Podcasts.
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The episode title 'Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie is 38 minutes.
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When was the first episode of Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie?
The first episode of Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie was released on Aug 22, 2017.
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