How Robin Bailey Survived Repeated, Unimaginable Loss
4/19/20261 hr 17 min
Robin Bailey is one of Australia’s most recognisable radio voices. Warm, open, and deeply relatable, she’s built a career on making other people feel less alone.
But behind that voice is a life shaped by repeated, unimaginable loss.
In this conversation, Robin sits down with Kate Langbroek to share the moments that changed everything. From losing her father as a child, to the devastating death of her first husband, and later, the loss of her second husband to cancer, Robin speaks with a level of honesty that is at times breathtaking.
She reflects on the moment she had to tell her three young sons that their father had died, and the decision she made about how they would face that grief together. She also opens up about the more complicated chapters of her life, including the choices she’s wrestled with and the long road back to herself.
This is a conversation about grief, but it’s also about resilience. About motherhood, survival, and what it really takes to keep going when life keeps changing in ways you never expected.
Robin’s memoir, Flamingos Aren’t Born Pink is out now.
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CREDITS:
Guest: Robin Bailey
Host: Kate Langbroek
Group Executive Producer: Naima Brown
Executive Producer: Bree Player
Assistant Producer: Coco Lavigne
Audio and Video Producer: Josh Green
Social Media Producer: Olivia Colman
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First 90 secondsRobyn Bailey· Guest0:00
I lay on that floor in my walk-in wardrobe, and I cried, and I cried, and then I just thought, "No one's coming. No one's gonna come and- Mm ... sweep you up and drive you off. Like, get up, girl. Get your big girl pants on and start moving because those kids need you, and you need to be okay. You need to believe you're okay."
Kate Langbroek· Host0:25
[instrumental music] Robyn Bailey is one of those voices you feel like you know. If you've ever listened to her on the radio, and you might not even realize that you have, you'll know what I mean. She's warm, she's funny, she's incredibly open. She has this way of making people feel like they're not alone. And now she's written a memoir, Flamingos Aren't Born Pink, which tells the story of her life. It's a life that's been shaped by some extraordinary highs and some very, very, very deep losses. Robyn lost her father when she was a child. Years later, her first husband took his own life, and then after finding love again, she lost her second husband to cancer. So I wanted to sit down with Robyn and really understand how she's lived through all of that, how she's raised her boys through it, and how she's found her way back to joy. Because this conversation isn't just about grief,