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Tell Me Over Tea For those of us who know that tea, and stories are simply better when shared. Welcome to Tell Me Over Tea — a cosy storytelling podcast that feels a bit like pulling up a chair at the kitchen table, cuppa in hand, and making space for the stories that shaped us. You’ll hear snippets of real life from women writing their personal stories, reflections from my own notebook (including the letters I write to my Nan), conversations, and simple memories and moments that invite you to pause, smile, and maybe even pick up your pen. At the heart of it all is this: stories connect us. They remind us that we’re not alone in what we’ve lived, felt, or wondered. They build humble bridges between us — one memory, one conversation, one cuppa at a time. So pop the kettle on, get comfy, and join me. Let’s gently collect and share the stories that matter, the ones that connect us, long after the teapot has been emptied. <br/><br/><a href="https://bettymaewrote.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">bettymaewrote.substack.com</a>

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Episode thumbnail for Episode 25: Kitchen Table Letters: Windy Harbour, Grandparents & The Cosy Places From Childhood

July 24, 2026

Episode 25: Kitchen Table Letters: Windy Harbour, Grandparents & The Cosy Places From Childhood

<p></p><p>Show Notes</p><p>Episode 25: Kitchen Table Letters: Windy Harbour, Grandparents & The Cosy Places From Childhood</p><p>Two letters, one thread — the places that never leave us</p><p></p><p>In today’s episode, I’m sharing two letters from the Kitchen Table Letters series — my project inviting women to answer reflective questions the old-fashioned way, with pen, paper, and a stamp.</p><p>This episode’s theme is place, and by beautiful coincidence, both letters lead us to the same tender ground: memories of grandparents.</p><p>First, we hear from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/suninmysmile/"><strong>Denise</strong></a>, (you can find Denise on Instagram), who takes us to Windy Harbour — her grandparents’ holiday house and a place that has been a constant in her life since childhood, still treasured by her and her own family today.</p><p>Then, we hear from <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@kymhughesart"><strong>Kym</strong></a>, (Kym also has a substack), who shares the magic of her childhood holidays spent at her grandparents’ house. </p><p>Grab a cuppa and settle in for a cosy one.</p><p><strong>Want to send me a Kitchen Table Letter?</strong>Email me at kim@bettymaewrote.com to let me know you’d like to take part, and I’ll send you the questions and all the details.</p><p><strong>Want a pen pal?</strong>Join The Lovely Letters Project, my free snail mail exchange — details are<a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/pen-pals"><strong> here over oin the website</strong></a>. My mission is to keep letters and storytelling alive and well, and I’d love for you to be part of it.</p><p>If you enjoyed this episode, follow Tell Me Over Tea wherever you listen, and if you feel inclined, leave a little review — it helps more story-lovers find their way here:)</p><p>Kim x</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Where to find me:</strong></p><p>✨I write, on Substack, a weekly newsletter, you can subscribe to that here: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@bettymaewrote"><strong>Betty Mae Wrote newsletter</strong></a><strong>. </strong>It’s the space where I share stories (both mine and other people’s) and it’s also a way of keeping up to date with all things Betty Mae Wrote, Little Life Stories, Lovely Letters and the podcast.</p><p>✨To find out more about my memory writing program, <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/coming-soon-in-2025-a-new-chapter-for-writing-your-stories"><strong>Little Life Stories</strong></a> you can do that here: <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/coming-soon-in-2025-a-new-chapter-for-writing-your-stories"><strong>Little Life Stories</strong></a></p><p>✨I’ve created a simple and beautiful starting point for your own storytelling: <strong>The Five Minute Memory List.</strong>It’s a short, exercise (a cuppa’s worth), to help you gather memories and begin. It’s fun and easy peasey and it’s something you can use in your letter writing, journaling and personal life writing. You can grab that by subscribing to my newsletter (you’ll find it in the welcome letter one you’ve signed up)<strong>: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@bettymaewrote"><strong>here</strong></a></p><p>✨<a target="_blank" href="https://kyl5j1fht23112jd-57438896333.shopifypreview.com/pages/tea-and-toast-letter-club"><strong>The Tea + Toast Letter Club</strong></a><strong>!</strong> A little moment to pour yourself a cuppa, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a letter (and some other goodies) in the mail every month. You can read more about it <a target="_blank" href="https://kyl5j1fht23112jd-57438896333.shopifypreview.com/pages/tea-and-toast-letter-club"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong>Oh, and from July on, there will be an extra special little gift waiting for one lucky duck subscriber. A ‘golden ticket’ will be tucked inside one envelope. Who will July’s ticket finder be? </p><p>✨If you’d like to get back into the gorgeous slow soothe of letter writing, please know you are always welcome to join: <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/pen-pals"><strong>The Lovely Letters Project</strong></a><strong> (it’s free!)</strong></p><p>✨Or if you simply need a good old sticky beak around the place, please head on over here to the website:<strong> </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bettymaewrote.com"><strong>www.bettymaewrote.com</strong></a></p><p>✨Oh and if you’re an Instagram type, be sure to follow me on Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/bettymaewrote"><strong>@bettymaewrote</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Written and hosted by Kim, founder of Betty Mae Wrote — a slow-living space for letter writing, memory keeping, and everyday storytelling, from a tin cottage on the Far South Coast of NSW.</p><p>Music: Kim on the uke;) Rattling teacups – also KimProduction and Editing: Surprise, surprise, guess who? Yep! Kim again!</p><p>Art by Lewis Dillon (thanks, Lew!)</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://bettymaewrote.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">bettymaewrote.substack.com</a>

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July 6, 2026

Episode 24: Tess Lehman’s Story -Never Going Back in the Box

<p>Show Notes</p><p>Episode 24: Tess Lehman’s Story - Never Going Back in the Box</p><p>On coming out, starting over, and learning to be exactly who you are</p><p></p><p>(Trigger warning: this episode contains some swearing. Just so you know what you’re in for — but I promise it’s worth it.)</p><p>Today I am joined by a woman I found the way I find most good things — scrolling Instagram at some point when I should have been doing something else.</p><p>Tess Lehman is a photographer based in Newcastle, and her Instagram bio reads: Photos that feel like home. Rebellion and magic. Not your average. And honestly, right there tells you everything you need to know about Tess. </p><p>She is as real and raw and as down to earth as they come. No bells and whistles. No performance. Just a woman with a big life and a beautiful, honest way of talking about it. </p><p>What a life it has been.</p><p>Tess grew up in a big, loud, blustery family on the edge of Inverell in northern New South Wales — one of seven kids, a voracious reader who hid in treehouses with her books so nobody could take them off her, a kid who threw down with her teachers (and won), and a teenager who, at eighteen, packed herself into a Subaru with her best mate and drove to Alice Springs because she knew if she didn’t leave, she never would.</p><p>From Alice Springs to the mines of northern WA. From Perth to Indonesia to Canada. Selling cars, working bars, laying 90 square metres of turf with three small children watching from the deck.</p><p>And then, at 33, painting a wall alone at 2 or 3 in the morning, she had a moment. A quiet, enormous, life-changing moment.</p><p>In this episode, Tess talks about coming out as queer in her 30s, and what it felt like to finally give herself permission to be the person she actually was. She talks about her ADHD diagnosis, and the strange grief of realising that the things you thought were just your personality — both the good bits and the hard bits — were something else entirely. She talks about her photography, and the transformation she witnesses when she turns the lens on women and reflects back to them a version of themselves they’ve never been allowed to see before.</p><p>And she talks about her precious sister. Her shining, hilarious, enormous-hearted sister, who saw Tess more clearly than almost anyone, and who died — and how you learn to live with that kind of missing.</p><p>This is a big, beautiful, honest episode. I think …. wait … I know ….. you’re going to love Tess as much as I do.</p><p>A little something from this episode to take with you...</p><p>“I am never going back in that box. I’m never going to be quiet. I’m never going to stop saying the things that are true for me.” Tess Lehman</p><p><strong>Where to find Tess:</strong></p><p>Instagram:<strong> @tessdoes_</strong> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/wishmymothertoldme/"><strong>@wishmymothertoldme</strong></a></p><p>The Podcast: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@wishmymothertoldme"><strong>Wish My Mother Told Me</strong></a></p><p>Photography Bookings: <a target="_blank" href="https://tessdoes.com/"><strong>www.tessdoes.com</strong></a></p><p>If you enjoyed this episode, follow Tell Me Over Tea wherever you listen, and if you feel inclined, leave a little review — it helps more story-lovers find their way here:)</p><p>Kim x</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Where to find me:</strong></p><p>✨I write, on Substack, a weekly newsletter, you can subscribe to that here: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@bettymaewrote"><strong>Betty Mae Wrote newsletter</strong></a><strong>. </strong>It’s the space where I share stories (both mine and other people’s) and it’s also a way of keeping up to date with all things Betty Mae Wrote, Little Life Stories, Lovely Letters and the podcast.</p><p>✨To find out more about my writing program, <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/coming-soon-in-2025-a-new-chapter-for-writing-your-stories"><strong>Little Life Stories</strong></a> you can do that here: <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/coming-soon-in-2025-a-new-chapter-for-writing-your-stories"><strong>Little Life Stories</strong></a></p><p>✨I’ve created a simple and beautiful starting point for your own storytelling: <strong>The Five Minute Memory List.</strong>It’s a short, exercise (a cuppa’s worth), to help you gather memories and begin. It’s fun and easy peasey and it’s something you can use in your letter writing, journaling and personal life writing. You can grab that by subscribing to my newsletter (you’ll find it in the welcome letter one you’ve signed up)<strong>: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@bettymaewrote"><strong>here</strong></a></p><p>✨<a target="_blank" href="https://kyl5j1fht23112jd-57438896333.shopifypreview.com/pages/tea-and-toast-letter-club"><strong>The Tea + Toast Letter Club</strong></a><strong>!</strong> A little moment to pour yourself a cuppa, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a letter (and some other goodies) in the mail every month. You can read more about it <a target="_blank" href="https://kyl5j1fht23112jd-57438896333.shopifypreview.com/pages/tea-and-toast-letter-club"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong>Oh, and from July on, there will be an extra special little gift waiting for one lucky duck subscriber. A ‘golden ticket’ will be tucked inside one envelope. Who will July’s ticket finder be? </p><p>✨If you’d like to get back into the gorgeous slow soothe of letter writing, please know you are always welcome to join: <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/pen-pals"><strong>The Lovely Letters Project</strong></a><strong> (it’s free!)</strong></p><p>✨Or if you simply need a good old sticky beak around the place, please head on over here to the website:<strong> </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bettymaewrote.com"><strong>www.bettymaewrote.com</strong></a></p><p>✨Oh and if you’re an Instagram type, be sure to follow me on Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/bettymaewrote"><strong>@bettymaewrote</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Music: Kim on the uke;) Rattling teacups – also KimProduction and Editing: Surprise, surprise, guess who? Yep! Kim again!</p><p>Art by Lewis Dillon (thanks, Lew!)</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://bettymaewrote.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">bettymaewrote.substack.com</a>

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June 29, 2026

Episode 23: The Kitchen Table Letters — Nadine’s Letter

<p>Show Notes </p><p><strong>Episode 23: The Kitchen Table Letters — Nadine’s Letter</strong></p><p></p><p>Today is a very special episode of Tell Me Over Tea, because today the Kitchen Table Letters begins.</p><p>If you’ve been following along, you’ll know I’ve been talking about this for a little while now — an invitation for you, my listeners, to write me a letter. An actual, old fashioned, hand written, snail mail letter. And I’ll choose some to read here on the podcast.</p><p>Because stories connect us. And the stories of our lives — the small ones, the quiet ones, the ones we think nobody wants to hear — are all that we leave behind. And having them written down somewhere is one of the most precious gifts we can give to the people who come after us.</p><p>The very first letter comes from Nadine <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/rust_emporium/"><strong>@rust_emporium</strong></a>, and it is a beautiful one to open this series with.</p><p>Nadine writes about her mum being handed a bundle of letters — written by her great grandmother Lottie, who lived in Brisbane, to her grandmother Jane, who lived in Oxfordshire — spanning twenty odd years in the late 1880s. Written in copperplate on tissue thin paper, folded into tiny handmade envelopes that would fit in the palm of your hand. Two women who never once met in person, but who treasured each other across vast oceans through the written word alone.</p><p>And Nadine asks the most beautiful question: what will my descendants think of me?</p><p>She also shares a quieter, deeply personal story — the day she stepped into a pine forest in Victoria to gather pine cones for her shop window, and how the hush of those trees stopped her completely in her tracks and changed her life.</p><p>This is an episode about letters and what they carry. About the forest and what it teaches. About slowing down before the world forces you to. And about the small, fleeting, everyday moments.</p><p><strong>A little reminder from this episode…</strong></p><p>They never met in person, Lottie and Jane.But they both treasured those pieces of paper until the day they died.And so did every daughter and cousin who came after them.</p><p>No one is ever disappointed to find letters. Never ever never!</p><p><strong>Would you like to be part of the Kitchen Table Letters?</strong></p><p>I would love to read your letter on the podcast. All you need to do is get in touch via the email address in the show notes and I’ll send you a list of prompts to choose from. Write your response by hand, pop it in the post to my address, and your letter might just be read aloud right here on Tell Me Over Tea.</p><p>You just need to be comfortable with me sharing bits and pieces — on the podcast, in my newsletter, or over on Instagram. If you’d prefer to keep some things private, just let me know and we’ll sort it out.</p><p>If you enjoyed this episode, follow Tell Me Over Tea wherever you listen, and if you feel inclined, leave a little review — it helps more story-lovers find their way here 🙂</p><p>Kim x</p><p></p><p><strong>Where to find me:</strong></p><p>✨I write, on Substack, a weekly newsletter, you can subscribe to that here: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@bettymaewrote"><strong>Betty Mae Wrote newsletter</strong></a><strong>. </strong>It’s the space where I share stories (both mine and other people’s) and it’s also a way of keeping up to date with all things Betty Mae Wrote, Little Life Stories, Lovely Letters and the podcast.</p><p>✨To find out more about my writing membership, <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/coming-soon-in-2025-a-new-chapter-for-writing-your-stories"><strong>Little Life Stories</strong></a> you can do that here: <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/coming-soon-in-2025-a-new-chapter-for-writing-your-stories"><strong>Little Life Stories</strong></a></p><p>✨I’ve created a simple and beautiful starting point for your own storytelling: <strong>The Five Minute Memory List.</strong>It’s a short, exercise (a cuppa’s worth), to help you gather memories and begin. It’s fun and easy peasey and it’s something you can use in your letter writing, journaling and personal life writing. You can grab that by subscribing to my newsletter (you’ll find it in the welcome letter one you’ve signed up)<strong>: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@bettymaewrote"><strong>here</strong></a></p><p>✨<a target="_blank" href="https://kyl5j1fht23112jd-57438896333.shopifypreview.com/pages/tea-and-toast-letter-club"><strong>The Tea + Toast Letter Club</strong></a><strong>!</strong> A little moment to pour yourself a cuppa, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a letter (and some other goodies) in the mail every month. You can read more about it <a target="_blank" href="https://kyl5j1fht23112jd-57438896333.shopifypreview.com/pages/tea-and-toast-letter-club"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong>Oh, and from July on, there will be an extra special little gift waiting for one lucky duck subscriber. A ‘golden ticket’ will be tucked inside one envelope. Who will July’s ticket finder be? </p><p>✨If you’d like to get back into the gorgeous slow soothe of letter writing, please know you are always welcome to join: <a target="_blank" href="https://bettymaewrote.com/pages/pen-pals"><strong>The Lovely Letters Project</strong></a><strong> (it’s free!)</strong></p><p>✨Or if you simply need a good old sticky beak around the place, please head on over here to the website:<strong> </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bettymaewrote.com"><strong>www.bettymaewrote.com</strong></a></p><p>✨Oh and if you’re an Instagram type, be sure to follow me on Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/bettymaewrote"><strong>@bettymaewrote</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Music: Kim on the uke;) Rattling teacups – also KimProduction and Editing: Surprise, surprise, guess who? Yep! Kim again!</p><p>Art by Lewis Dillon (thanks, Lew!)</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://bettymaewrote.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">bettymaewrote.substack.com</a>

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What is Tell Me Over Tea?

Tell Me Over Tea For those of us who know that tea, and stories are simply better when shared.

Welcome to Tell Me Over Tea — a cosy storytelling podcast that feels a bit like pulling up a chair at the kitchen table, cuppa in hand, and making space for the stories that shaped us.

You’ll hear snippets of real life from women writing their personal stories, reflections from my own notebook (including the letters I write to my Nan), conversations, and simple memories and moments that invite you to pause, smile, and maybe even pick up your pen.

At the heart of it all is this: stories connect us.

They remind us that we’re not alone in what we’ve lived, felt, or wondered. They build humble bridges between us — one memory, one conversation, one cuppa at a time.

So pop the kettle on, get comfy, and join me. Let’s gently collect and share the stories that matter, the ones that connect us, long after the teapot has been emptied.

<br/><br/><a href="https://bettymaewrote.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">bettymaewrote.substack.com</a>

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This podcast updates daily.

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