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Abusive Relationship: Can You See It Coming? With Survivor & Advocate Sammie Jade
Do you think you’d notice if a partner was controlling you? Most of us do, and most of us are wrong. Sam explains how coercive control starts with attention that feels like love and slowly takes away your money, your friends, your family, and your freedom. She also explains why “just leave” is never that simple.
Sam is a coercive control survivor, a mum, and one of Australia’s most prominent voices educating women about controlling relationships. After leaving, she gave evidence that helped send her ex-partner to prison, then turned her experience into a social media platform with millions of views. She now helps women recognise the warning signs, find the language for what they’re living through, and support the people they love.
In this episode, she explains:
* The Slow Squeeze: Coercive control is a pattern of small incidents that quietly strips away your autonomy until you’re managing someone else’s moods instead of living your own life.
* The Red Flags That Look Like Love: Constant texting, sudden jealousy, and deleting male friends “as a boundary” are easy to read as devotion in the first weeks.
* Why You Don’t See It: The boiling frog effect, isolation, gaslighting, minimising, self-blame and trauma bonding all work to keep victims from recognising what’s happening.
* The Money Trap: How economic abuse works in real life, from drained credit cards and locked accounts to being questioned over a coffee.
* Why Couples Counselling Can Backfire: What Sam learned about getting therapy, and why individual support matters before and after you leave.
* How to Really Help Someone: Why pressuring a friend to leave can push them further away, and what to do instead.
Follow Sammie:
Instagram: @sammieejade0
TikTok: @sammieejade0
00:00 Intro
01:02 Why Sam Became a Public Advocate
03:05 What Is Coercive Control?
05:43 How It Started: The Fairy Tale Beginning
07:01 The First Red Flags
08:56 How Entrapment Actually Happens
11:12 Did Anyone Around Her Notice?
13:14 When the Control Escalated
16:43 Isolation During Covid
19:32 Why Victims Don’t Recognise It
21:40 Trauma Bonding Explained
22:25 Why Couples Therapy Doesn’t Work
26:17 Economic Abuse
30:53 Control in the Bedroom
35:27 What Stress Does to Your Body
36:43 “Why Didn’t You Just Leave?”
40:12 The Day She Left
45:46 Stalking, AVOs & Fear of Release
48:31 Why She Went Public
51:16 Rebuilding Your Life
53:06 How to Help Someone You’re Worried About
54:43 “No Is a Complete Sentence”
If you or someone you know is affected by domestic or family violence in Australia, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.
1 Oct 2026
Psychedelic Expert: How Psychedelics Can Rewire a Traumatised Brain
We were told psychedelics would fry your brain. Today, they're being used in clinical trials to help people heal from depression and trauma.
Clinical psychologist and psychedelic therapist Esme Swan has spent a decade working with trauma survivors. She explains how psychedelics rewire the brain, what really happens in a therapy session, why people often go back to childhood, and why MDMA started in the therapy room, not the club. We also talk about whether what people see is real, how meditation can lead to a similar state, and who should never try it.
18 Sept 2026
Dating Coach: You’re Probably Dating Wrong
Dating doesn't have to be this hard; we've just been doing it wrong, and it's costing us years.
How to stop being single, date successfully, and find the person who's actually right for you. We cover dating rules, red flags, confidence, ghosting, and what the apps are doing to us.
Sera Bozza went from architect to dating columnist to evidence-based dating coach, and has spent hundreds of hours sitting with men and women stuck in the same loops. We get into why ghosting hurts more than it used to, why men and women swipe in opposite ways, the profile mistake that attracts exactly the wrong person, and why "I'm just picky" is usually something else entirely.
Plus: her script for ending things without ghosting, the one word that makes people argue back, and why the dopamine you burn before a date decides how it goes.
Follow Sera: @serabozza
3 Sept 2026
Can Anyone Become a Killer? 30 Years Hunting Murderers with Gary Jubelin
You'd know a dangerous person if you met one. Wouldn't you? Gary Jubelin spent over 20 years as a homicide detective. He's interviewed murderers and men he calls pure evil. What he learned is uncomfortable: the difference between the people who kill and the rest of us is smaller and more circumstantial than we like to think. In this episode: the red flags that come before violence and why police dismissed them for years. The two tells that give away a liar and why prison makes most people worse.
24 Aug 2026
The Work Expert: You'll Work 90,000 Hours. Stop Wasting Years In A Job You Don't Like
You'll spend around 90,000 hours of your life working, so why do four in five people say they don't actually like their jobs? Checked out, numb, or quietly done. This episode is about finding real meaning in your work before your life in the wrong job! Hans Rosinek is a work researcher and bestselling author. He's spent years untangling what actually makes work feel worth it and right for you!
10 Aug 2026
Female vs Male Brain: What 10,000 Scans Actually Reveal with Neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay
Oxford-trained neuroscientist unpacks what really shapes the brain biology, hormones, and the world you grow up in — and why most of what you've heard about male vs female "wiring" gets it wrong. Dr Sarah McKay the author of three books on how the brain works and changes across a lifetime, with a focus on women's brain health. We cover the 80% overlap between male and female brains, how gender equality reshapes the brain, why your phone quietly drains your memory, the teenage brain and risk-taking, hormonal sensitivity, sleep, loneliness, and what actually protects your brain for the long run.
28 Jul 2026
Dream Job Influencer: The Reality Behind the $36 Billion Industry with Francesca Hung
You think being an influencer is free clothes and easy money. It's a $36 billion industry — and almost nobody understands how it actually works.
Francesca Hung: content creator and former Miss Universe Australia pulls back the curtain: how influencers really get paid, why she said no to brand money most people never would, how the algorithm keeps every creator guessing, and the impossible call every parent online eventually faces.
In this episode:
- The real money math behind a single post — media kits, buyouts, residuals, and why no two posts cost the same
- Why she turned down brand money most people would never say no to
- The pressure of being paid for a post and having no control over how it performs
- How the algorithm actually decides what flies and what dies — and why creators are always guessing
- The time she was made to post a photo of herself she couldn't stand
- Nano to mega: where you actually sit on the influencer ladder — and what it's worth
- The privacy you quietly trade away the moment you go public
- The impossible call every creator-parent faces: do you put your kid online?
- The most valuable currency “Autehntcicity” and why everyone does Behind the scenes nowadays
Follow Francesca:
Instagram: Francesca.hung
TikTok: Francescahung
16 Jul 2026
Why War Photos Stopped Shocking Us — 9 Years Inside Afghanistan with Andrew Quilty
Why don't war photos shock us anymore? Andrew Quilty spent 9 years as a photojournalist in Afghanistan — photographing the Taliban, the war, and the day Kabul fell and he has an answer.
In this episode, we get into how the images on your feed shape what you believe about war, why you feel less every time you scroll, and what nine years behind the camera taught him about what a single photo can and can't do.
Andrew is the first photographer ever to win the Gold Walkley for his image inside the US-bombed MSF hospital in Kunduz. He's the author of August in Kabul and is currently a witness in a war crimes trial.
3 Jul 2026
How Dating Apps Are Keeping Us Single!
Maple founder Connor reveals how dating app algorithms secretly rank and league your profile, why Hinge, Tinder, and Bumble are built on the same psychology as slot machines, and why the system is structurally designed to keep you swiping instead of getting you matched quietly keeping millions of people single. Connor is the founder of Maple, a dating and social platform, and has spent years researching and building inside the dating app industry.
He explains:
How dating app algorithms secretly rank and league profiles
Why Hinge, Tinder, and Bumble are built on slot machine psychology
Why dating app algorithms are structurally designed to keep you single
Why sexual inactivity among Gen Z has doubled since 2010
How COVID reshaped dating culture and fueled the loneliness epidemic
Why the world is getting lonelier and more single than ever
Why ghosting and swiping fatigue have made dating feel so chaotic
23 Jun 2026
Top US Model: What the Industry Never Says Out Loud — The Money, the Myths & the Power
In this episode, I sit down with the lovely Kenz Lawren, model and creator with over 1.5 million TikTok followers, to uncover the reality of the modelling industry and what it's really like to work as a model.
We discuss the reality of Fashion Week, how much models actually get paid, agency life, the pressure to stay skinny, eating disorders, sexual harassment in the industry, rejection, and how social media has changed the modeling world forever.
Whether you're an aspiring model or simply curious about what happens behind the scenes, this is an honest look at the challenges, opportunities, and truths of the fashion industry.
*Small correction: In the episode, I say that Kenz was one of the faces of Dior Beauty, which was my mistake. She was actually one of the beauty brand faces of Anastasia Beverly Hills.
11 Jun 2026
Is ChatGPT Making You Dumber? A Neuroscientist on How AI Rewires Your Brain
Neuroscientist and neuro-futurologist Professor Joel Pearson reveals what AI is really doing to our brains, our relationships, and our grip on reality — from cognitive atrophy and the loneliness trap to the rise of AI companions and what he calls the uncertainty pandemic.
Professor Joel Pearson is a neuroscientist and neuro-futurologist based at UNSW, where he leads the Future Minds Lab.
He explains:
How AI use is quietly reshaping our cognitive abilities
Why we're falling into a loneliness trap despite constant connection
What AI companions are doing to our capacity for real relationships
Why he calls this moment the uncertainty pandemic
What we can actually do to protect our minds in the AI era
26 May 2026
K-beauty: Why We've Been Getting Skincare Wrong
Korean skincare has reshaped global beauty culture but most people still don't understand why it works. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Sean, a K-Beauty expert and educator, to explore the real philosophy behind Korean skincare: the cultural mindset, the ingredients that actually deliver results, the routines worth following, the products worth knowing, and the myths the beauty industry has let run for far too long. Calm, curious, and genuinely illuminating, this one will change how you think about your skin.
Follow Dr. Sean on Instagram @dr.skinsource and TikTok @drsean.skin
20 May 2026
Introducing Your New Favorite Podcast
Most of us walk around with opinions we've never really tested. We think we know how the world works until someone who really knows tells us otherwise.
This is We Think We Know, a podcast where I sit down with leading experts to challenge the assumptions we've never thought to question. Every episode, one conversation, one idea turned upside down.
In this intro, I talk about who I am, why I started the show, and what you can expect from every episode.
Subscribe if you're the kind of person who'd rather be proven wrong than stay comfortable.
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