I Escaped a Wellness Retreat Before Breakfast
6/22/202641 min
An expensive wellness retreat was booked. A quiet, nourishing reset was planned. But no TV and no phone? Bruna said..no thanks. Speaking of wellness, Mary claims she cured her warts with witchcraft, and Dr Ginni has some...scientific questions. Creatine is the midlife supplement we hear about more than any, so what does the good Doctor have to say? And how far would you go for your bestie? Because Mary went pretty far to get Bruna a filming permit.
Plus a dilemma: our Unleashers husband has discovered Facebook Marketplace and is convinced he can flip a commercial deep fryer by Tuesday. So entrepreneurial. Our advice is savage.
In your ears today: Bruna Papandrea, Mary Coustas, Dr Ginni Mansberg and Cath Mahoney.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:01
You're listening to a Mamamia podcast.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:03
[upbeat music] Hello [laughs] and welcome to Unleashed.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:15
Woo!
Cath Mahoney· Host0:16
Woo. [laughs] I wish you could have seen, would we call it dancing, Bruna, that we were just doing to- Yeah, it was dancing ... Whitney Houston? We were just getting in the zone.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:25
It was a little warm-up.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:25
A little warmy warm-up.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:26
A warm-up.
Mary Coustas· Panelist0:26
Bruna, you looked like Ray Gun.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:27
[laughs] [laughs] Oh my God, I have got so many more moves than Ray Gun, by the way.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:32
There's a lot. There's a lot.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:34
My God.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:34
That's a whole, that's a whole episode. [laughs] Holy moly.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:36
Okay.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:37
Welcome to Unleashed. This is a podcast for Gen X women who need a laugh. Now, if your teenage wardrobe involved questionable neon.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:45
Oh my God.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:46
[laughs] You remember the struggle of rewinding a VHS tape, and you survived a childhood of drinking straight from the garden hose.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:53
Yeah.
Mary Coustas· Panelist0:53
Oh, yes.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:54
Welcome.
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:55
[upbeat music] [laughs] Welcome.
Cath Mahoney· Host0:56
You found your people. Right, who have we got on the sofa this week?
Bruna Papandrea· Host0:59
I'm Bruna Papandrea. I'm a film and TV producer.
Mary Coustas· Panelist1:02
I'm Mary Coustas. I'm an actress writer.
Ginni Mansberg· Panelist1:04
I'm Jenny Mansberg. I'm a GP.
Cath Mahoney· Host1:06
I'm Cath Mahoney. I'm a comedian. Right, wherever you're listening, unclench your jaw, clench your pelvic floor, and get ready to unleash. Okay, first order of business today, I've been in the Unleashed DMs, and we have a question from Unleasher Nikki.
Bruna Papandrea· Host1:23
Yes, go, Nikki.
Cath Mahoney· Host1:24
"What on earth does it mean when you say put someone's name in the fridge?"