Ep. 81 Cath Mahoney on over-sharing, a high-profile divorce, career change insights and coming back to self.

When you google Catherine Mahoney, the first thing it says is Andrew John’s ex-wife. But as I know nothing about the NRL or his career as one of Australia’s biggest sports stars, this isn’t what led me to invite Cath to join us on Human Cogs.

Cath is an ex-publicist, writer, podcaster, talented creative, and had me rollicking on the floor with laughter when we first met two years ago. Her warm, funny and relatable 2022 memoir Currently Between Husbands tells the story of her marriage and separation to Andrew as well the relationship insights gleaned before and after her relationship with Andrew.

As a self-confessed over-sharer, not much is off the table.  In this conversation, Cath reflects how being a people pleaser has helped and hindered her personally and professionally. How being separated and divorced is both challenging and also freeing.

She also shares some of the top tips she has gleaned from interviewing over 150 guests on her fabulous podcast So I Quit My Day Job, where she talks with career changes and how they made the leap.

Cath reminds us that being yourself and being at ease in your own skin is the best roadmap to follow. She also acknowledges that this is hard when we are drawn off course by the needs and expectations of others; and perhaps fear of judgement or failure too.

She’s Currently Between Husbands, and yet she’s so much more than that… here’s my chat with always delightful and witty Cath.

Guest: Cathrine Mahoney
Book: Currently Between Husbands
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Host: Mads Grummet + Sabina Read
Producer: Daryl Missen

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