NortHERn is a fresh, fun and unapologetic podcast for women living in North Australia. Hosted by Top Half Media founder Molly Upstill and Darwin content creator Sarah Falls, NortHERn explores the fashion, beauty, quirks and lifestyle of life in North Australia. With plenty of laughs, honest conversations and a healthy dose of attitude from the tropics.
Starting off strong, Molly has lots to fill us in about from her trip to Melbourne and time in the Birdcage but first things first, hot and humid (you can find the story on The Top Half).
We then try and unpack Molly's shopping habits in an effort to understand if we hate everything or if we're just old or both. Also, who has the money to waste and then we try and assess shopping psychology but who are we kidding.
Then we dabble in the village and how important it is to be a villager.
Like, subscribe and follow us on socials, and we'll catch you next week.
3 Nov 2026
6. Get to know us, real LEGAL names and all, and can we all calm down on the roads please?
Mango madness and road rage anyone? Let's kick it off chatting about the weather.
This episode is by popular demand and is a quick get to know us with a few popular questions that has come through since NortHERn launched.
We've summarised a few of the most popular questions coming through our inbox in an effort to get to know us a bit more!
Enjoy.
27 Oct 2026
5. Buy the drug store mascara and why do men even have holes in their jocks?
Please enjoy our first guest episode with the one and only Jamie Collins, makeup artist extraordinaire and owner of Bleum in the heart of Darwin.
Jamie answers all your burning wet season makeup questions including why you really don't need to go anywhere but Chemist Warehouse.
We also talk about building businesses, some funny stories from days gone by and why women need to support other women. Somewhere we also fit in a shot of Laksa Vodka.
We also send a huge sorry to you all AGAIN - this week we recorded OOO and accidentally recorded through the laptop rather than the mics. Huge thanks to the team at HOT100 and Mix FM who helped us fix the audio and bought it back to life!!
20 Oct 2026
4. Mouldy hair, eyebrow kits and did Trevor Jenkins steal my phone?
Molly spent last week selling the Top End to travel agents from around the world while Sarah battles a 2.5 year old on the cusp of dropping his nap. Talk about worlds apart. She's also visiting the naturopath and Molly has thoughts.
Hot and humid this week was varied and lovely. Molly's hot was the 1000 Hour Eyebrow Dye Kit (https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/741293?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ECM-pmax&gclsrc=aw.ds&cmpid=smsm:ds:GOOGLE:SUPC-0001_Always%20On_Performance-Max__eCom%20-%20Online%20Only%20Specials_Search_Conversion_8458_815925_FY26_L3_Buy_National-AU:&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21837584778&gbraid=0AAAAACoj6t4F4OsVdq8ZZAo_UjygzwSOg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjNb23OjFlwMVkNYWBR2FujpVEAQYASABEgLTdPD_BwE) and her humid as endless dramas with her pool at the only time you really want to be in the pool.
Sarah gave the one and only Susan Alderman of Lazy Susan (https://www.instagram.com/lazysusanstudio/) a giant shout out and her humid of course a parent's worst nightmare is anything that opens for kids after 10am.
Then we head straight into the dos and don'ts of hair during the buildup, and we go through some of the recommendations from our own listeners around how the hell we deal with our hair in October.
Enoy!
13 Oct 2026
3. Singapore Grand Prix, tropical fashion trends, and kissing frogs.
Well Sarah's been busy chasing kids and cleaning up after a skink who abandoned its tail in her lounge room while she was sitting on the loo and Molly's been busy burying herself in smutty books and dealing with a chronic tropical ear infection, dermatitis from her wedding ring and can't wear earrings because she's allergic to them too.
Hot and humid this week will leave everyone a bit hot under the collar while also spruiking about a new found love of pilates.
We then talk upcoming trends in the fashion world and how our interpretation of wearing a scarf top is actually just a sarong fashioned into a dress and we FINALLY got to see how the world's fashion high and mighty dress for a tropical climate when Kim K among others desended on Singapore when it was 32 degrees and 73 per cent humidity.
The two stories written in by listeners deserve a gold medal and we have a solid reminder that not all frogs turn into a prince.
6 Oct 2026
2. The North Australian Survey, a very BIG thank you, and a tackle box to the head.
Hooray! Our second episode is now LIVE.
We start with a huge THANK YOU to the overwhelming amount of messages we received after episode 1 which gave us the confidence to get right into episode 2 and huzzah here we are!
Hot and humid this week is a totally relatable tropical sweaty bathroom scenario, Molly raves (again, sorry not sorry) about her colour analysis with Colour Lab Stylist (https://colourlabstylist.com) and drags Mecca for a product that doesn't quite cut it.
We then rip right into the survey results of our very informal Instagram story survey (not very Census of us) and discuss why the hell we get winter stuff in our shops, like, at all.
29 Sept 2026
1. An intro, steamy bathrooms, and micro shorts.
Hello!
Molly and Sarah here, and welcome to NortHERn, a podcast for women across North Australia.
We’re so excited to bring you our very first episode! To kick things off, we’re keeping it simple and giving you a little insight into who we are, where we’ve come from, and why we love calling North Australia home.
In this episode, we chat about our own experiences of living and working in the North, what inspired us to create NortHERn, and what we hope this podcast can become for women across our incredible region.
From the people and places that make the North so special, to the stories, challenges, adventures and opportunities that come with life up here, we’re looking forward to exploring it all.
So, grab an iced latte, settle in and come along for the ride. We’re so glad you’re here because North Australia has a lot to say.
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