This is a conversation that Em has been wanting to give you for ages, she even made it onto the wall of peeps Emsolation are obsessed over during our recent live Christmas special. As regular listeners to Emsolation would know, Em and Michael have a rather large obsession with Melissa Leong and her co-hosts on Masterchef. In fact, there’s entire sections of the podcast devoted to how she manages to eat the food Masterchef contestants deliver, without making us want to cringe, that’s an actual skill in itself. Melissa is also a skilled pianist who was actually on track to go to a conservatorium of music, she’s also a former athlete with a bunch of degrees and she’s high on Em’s list of people you need to know more about. As Em describes her “she’s a fully formed, raw, emotional, intelligent, authentic human who’s genuinely trying to do her best in the world”. This conversation is filled to the brim with amazing insight, and will leave you thankful that she exists and is out in the world doing her thing. Em does reveal to Melissa how obsessed we all are by her graceful TV eating, which is met with a very subdued and not at all creeped out thanks. They also discuss some behind the scenes moments from the upcoming season of Masterchef and how they both approach the world as openly and honestly as they can. It’s an amazing chat that covers so many incredible topics and we promise you’ll come out the other side of it feeling like you’ve learnt heaps and be in a better place because of it. So nestle into your favourite relaxing space and plug in for another entertaining edition of our summer series of life changing conversations.

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