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Motherland Australia

Stephanie Trethewey

Hosted by Stephanie Trethewey. Motherland shares real, raw, and unbelievable stories of motherhood told by women on the land. Each week, a rural mum from somewhere in Australia shares her motherhood journey. You"ll hear stories of true grit, resilience, grief, and pure joy. Motherhood is the most life changing and transformative journey a woman can go through, and it"s not always easy. No matter where you live or what you do, we"re in this together and you"re not alone.

kids & family parenting

All Episodes

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244: Sadie Chrestman was a first-time mum and...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/12/08

Sadie Chrestman was living a stones throw away from the famous Coca-Cola sign in Sydney’s Darlinghurst, living a very urban life, when she was set up on a blind date. Sadie, who had just turned 40, knew that she wanted to have kids and settle down, she also knew she wanted more space. And it turns out the man she was set up on a date with wanted the exact same thing. You might know Sadie’s name from the long-running SBS series Gourmet Farmer. The person she was set up with in 2007 was none ot...

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54:24

243: Kerry O'Sullivan's incredible IVF journey as a...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/12/01

At 35, Kerry O’Sullivan was busy running her 90,000-acre cattle station near Clermont in QLD. On the surface life was great. Kerry had a successful business, lived next door to her 3 sisters and parents, all on neighbouring properties, and spent her weekends at campdrafts. But Kerry knew deep down that she really wanted to be a mum. The only problem was, she’d never met the right person. At 35, Kerry started the process of doing it on her own, but at a routine doctor's appointment, she was to...

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44:20

242: How Michelle Moriarty learnt to love again

Motherland Australia ·

2024/11/24

Since 2018, Michelle Moriarty’s life has been split into two halves. Before the love of her life, Nathan died, and after. Michelle and Nathan were raising their family in regional WA after a romance, Michelle says was for the ages. Michelle was working as a social worker, Nathan and her were a team, and life was pretty good. But on the 10th of June 2018, everything changed. Michelle’s grief was all-consuming and isolating despite the village she had around her. She knew then that she didn’t w...

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241: Steph Cowper's daughter was 7 when she was...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/11/17

This month, Motherland celebrates the positive impact our charity partner, the Isolated Children’s Parents Association, continues to make for families just like yours everyday. Their wonderful volunteers together have created branches throughout rural Australia - and their ‘relentless and always on’ advocacy continues to build and grow better educational outcomes for our kids. To bring this incredible work to life, today’s episode features one of their own, Steph Cowper. Steph wears many...

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59:14

240: Nicole Sandland swapped professional dancing for...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/11/10

Nicole Sandland was about to move to Germany to further pursue her professional dancing career when she fell in love with a bloke from the land. She went away for three months but came home, and what happened next was a whirlwind romance. Nicole and Luke packed up their life in Adelaide and moved to Jamestown in regional South Australia, near Luke’s family farm. The pair opened the town’s first gym, and then moved onto a property out of town, and then COVID hit. But unlike a lot of people, Ni...

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50:59

239: From a farming accident to founding a charity:...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/11/03

Felicity Burton, a keen horsewoman from the age of five, is an exceptional camp drafter, and always knew she wanted a career on the land. And life on the land with kids has certainly had its ups and downs. Felicity was in the early stages of her second pregnancy, with twins, when she took her 20-month-old son Kory on a quad bike ride. They’d fed the horses. Put the dogs away. And we’re just moving a few sheep into the next paddock when they had an accident. With broken ribs and a shattered co...

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54:45

238: Jade Cooper's jaw dropping story of surrogacy in...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/10/27

What’s it like seeing someone else grow your baby? That’s a question I couldn’t help asking today’s incredible guest Jade Cooper. As you're about to hear, Jade hasn’t had the easiest of lives, but that hasn’t stopped her from going after the things that matter. Jade was just 18 months old when a lump was discovered on her kidney. The next three years involved countless trips to Brisbane for chemotherapy, radiation and checkups. Jade went into remission at just three years old, and her childho...

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237: Nicole Seekamp quit her basketball career for...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/10/20

Nicole Seekamp always knew she wanted to be a basketball player. But a goat farmer? Well, that wasn’t part of her plan. When she was 14, she left her hometown of Renmark in South Australia and moved across the country to Canberra and the Australian Institute of Sport. Over the next 20 years, she played for not only our national team, the Opals, at the Commonwealth Games, but all over the world. By 2019 she was on track for her first Olympics. But as the 2020 season drew to a close, Nico...

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55:05

236: Lisa Hodkginson on infertility & raising a...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/10/13

I was speaking at the Rural Women Unite event in Charters Towers last month when I met Lisa Hodgkinson, a mum of 4 from Clermont in central Queensland. Lisa met her husband Glen when she was 18. By 19, the couple were married. And 2 weeks after they tied the knot, just as Lisa turned 20, she found out that she was infertile. It took 3 years, two pregnancy losses, and two more cycles, before their eldest daughter Mia was born. They continued to try for more kids, all via IVF. With their fourth...

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235: Melissa McGilvray lost the love of her life, twice.

Motherland Australia ·

2024/10/06

Melissa McGilvray knows a thing or two about her world turning upside down. Because on two very ordinary days, nearly 20 years apart, that’s exactly what happened to her. Mel’s husband Garth went to chop some firewood, when the unthinkable happened. The tree he was cutting fell on him, and he died. As traumatic as it was, Mel knew she had to go on, for her, and for their little boy Oli. And then, a few years later, the universe weaved its magic, and Mel fell in love with Oli’s godfather, and ...

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48:40

234: Clare Hockings from Farmer Wants a Wife was...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/09/08

When people go on a reality TV show to find the love of their life, it doesn’t always end in a baby announcement and a full-blown commitment to each other. But when Clare Hockings decided to try to find her life partner on Farmer Wants A Wife in 2023, well, things kind of ended that way. Clare was raised in Scone NSW, Australia’s horse capital. And later in the country music capital of Tamworth. She worked in childcare and the local stockyards and spent her weekends with her horses. So she kn...

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47:48

233: Deb Frecklington's journey as farmer, mother,...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/09/01

I met Deb Frecklington at Beef Week in Rockhampton this year at a cocktail party, and before she knew it, I’d roped her into sharing her story for the first time like this. Deb is a proud Queenslander who grew up on a cattle property. She’s worn many hats throughout her career including producer, and, politician. Amongst it all, she’s a mum to three girls. Deb has served as the Leader of the Opposition, and the Shadow Minister for Agriculture just to name a few roles. She’s currently the Stat...

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232: At 49, Merry Boddington Gave Birth To Her First...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/08/25

Meredith Boddington, or Merry, as she likes to be called, went through her 20s and 30s looking for Mr Right. Raised on a sheep farm near Naracoorte in South Australia, Merry trained as a teacher. Her work took her across South Australia and into Victoria. But still no Mr Right. And then she met Wayne. A farmer who was also from Naracoorte. It turned out the person she had been looking for for all those years was a bloke from her country town! Merry and Wayne hit it off instantly, and after th...

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231: Why Belle Baker Wants All Women To Know How To...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/08/18

Belle Baker grew up on a property in the South-East of South Australia. She loved working with the cattle and sheep and dreamed of a career on the land. But when the time came for her to decide what she was going to do with her life, her dad told her to go and get a real job, because the farm wasn’t going to be an option for her. After years of travel overseas, and studying in Sydney, Belle returned to South Australia. In her mid 30s, she became a mum and a single parent to her son at the sam...

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230: Steph March’s son was born with his heart on the...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/08/11

Stephanie March was 17 she met her husband Cameron and they got married a few years later. Life was good. They went on what Steph describes as a ‘killer honeymoon’ and fell pregnant very easily. Not long after, their daughter Lexi was born, and then their son Bill. And that’s where everything changed for their family. Bill was born with his heart on the other side of his body. He was diagnosed with an incurable, rare and lifelong condition that affects the respiratory system as well as organ ...

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229: From Paris To Paddocks, this is Milly Taylor’s...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/08/04

Milly Taylor grew up near Paris. And she never intended to live on a farm, let alone a farm in Australia. But while on a University exchange to Melbourne where she was studying aero-space engineering, Milly met Michael Taylor. Michael was also studying engineering, but he had always planned on returning to his historic family’s farm, Taylors Run, located in Kentucky, New South Wales. They were living in Melbourne when they welcomed their first child, and still there when they fell pregnant wi...

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228: Being married to Tasmania’s Premier is the least...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/07/28

Sandra Knowles is the wife of Tasmania’s Premier, Jeremy Rockliff. But that fact is the least interesting thing about Sandra. Her career has spanned law, postings overseas working in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, helping run the family farm and now, as the Director of Tasmania’s Farm Innovation Hub. On top of all of that, Sandra raised 3 daughters on the land, born within 4 years of each other, while her husband was away... a lot. It’s been quite the adventure, and not always e...

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227: Kim Peake lost her young daughter, now she’s...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/07/21

Kim Peake is a mum of three who grew up in rural New South Wales, so when she fell in love with a stud cattle man, Nick, her world didn’t shift that much. Kim and Nick were married during one of the worst droughts the district had seen in 50 years and they welcomed their first daughter, Ruby, not long after. A few years later, Holly was born, and then Kim found out that she was pregnant with their third, a boy, Barney. Each child was born with the same rare disease that required major surgery...

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226: From Serving In Iraq To Solo Farming - Kate...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/07/14

Kate Rose has lived a truly extraordinary life. She's been a pastry chef in London, owning her own business and working for some of the biggest hotels in the city. She’s also been a soldier in the Iraq war. She was deployed when her two sons were just 9 and 4. And when she came home, she had two little boys who were terrified she’d leave them again. Kate also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and heartbreakingly, her marriage ended. After moving home to Australia, and 10 years in t...

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55:44

225: Married To The Outback Wrangler - What Kaia...

Motherland Australia ·

2024/07/07

When Kaia Wright fell in love with the croc-wrestling, helicopter-flying, outback wrangler Matt Wright at 24, she had no idea what the next stage of her life would entail. While all her friends were spending their weekends at cafes or the beach, Kaia and her top-end husband Matt were chasing pigs, wrangling crocs or spending time in remote bush camps. By all accounts, Matt and Kaia appeared to have it all. A successful business, a top Netflix show, and two beautiful kids, Dusty and Banjo. But...

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