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7 Jul 2026, 9am Belly Today’s episode of WOW is the story of a woman who has created a full and colourful life by choice. The choice to seek truth, to choose dance, and to say yes when others might have said no. Gabrielle Griffin aka GG was born in France, raised across Europe, and grew up in a family shaped by secrets, including one that didn’t surface until she was in the throes of teenage life as her mother revealed she had adopted out a baby before GG was born. That revelation cracked open GG’s world and set her on a path of rebellion, independence, and ultimately, truth‑seeking. At twenty, she moved to Australia alone. She reinvented herself along the way from Sydney to Byron Bay, the wild tropics of FNQ to Adelaides art scene and many other places in between. She navigated culture shock, inherited anxiety, queerness, and the search for belonging in a country that felt both foreign and full of possibility all at the same time. Her life has taken her through family lies and discoveries, activism and political queer culture, motherhood followed by dark postnatal depression, relocating to another state without her son, disability arts, adult puppetry, explorations into her own sexuality in her 40’s and GG put in the hard work of rebuilding a creative identity after everything felt like it had fallen apart. She has lived through rupture and reconnection, including eventually finding the brother she never knew she had. And through it all, she has followed one constant: That of the performing arts. Movement, dance, performance, and embodiment, was the language she trusted even when nothing else made sense. Today, she is one half of the post punk cabaret duo MUTTON, a performer whose life experience is woven into every beat, every gesture, every delightful moment on stage. GG is also an adult puppeteer, a Pilates instructor, an Activist, a blogger and a disability dance teacher and who knows what's next? This is a story about the search for identity, family, queerness, reinvention, and the courage to keep going, even when the path ahead is unclear. This project was made possible with the support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation CBF.org. The WOW2 podcast version of the series will be available in late July and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network (CRN) later in the year.
30 Jun 2026, 9am Belly Today’s guest is Gayle Cue a woman who grew up under a wide Montana sky in the Northwest of the US. The harsh and heavenly country, the great outdoor lifestyle, the grit and groundedness gave her the gift of resilience and strength that has helped carry her through life and what that journey brings. Gayles story weaves through all the juicy ingredients of a life lived in flow, allowing what is meant to be: to simply be. It might have taken her a few years or even a few decades to get to where she is today but she’s here and her story, in all its glorious entirety is what we’ll be sharing on the show today. Gayle married at 18 and became a young mum, before recognising the need for change which steered her toward navigating blended family life, with four kids under seven and the adventures that brought. Then came the moment that changed everything: Gayles second husband sat up in bed one morning and announced, “We’re going on a trip.” And just like that, Gayle’s view of life underneath those Montana skies expanded beyond realms, the world opened up and offered her a new vista and a way of being she couldn’t ignore. The family took a giant leap that carried them across the world, to eventually land right here in Byron Bay, where she co‑created Sound Waves Music Store which housed and helped build a community radio station and all of its volumeters, and became one of the quiet forces shaping the creative heartbeat of the town. She’s lived through profound loss, rebuilt her life more than once, travelled to sacred sites around the world, remembered past lives, more recently she’s embraced shared living, and stepped into elderhood with a mix of humility, humour, and deep soulful insight. Gayle is vibrant, wise, grounded, and endlessly curious. She’s the kind of elder we can look to, to be reminded that as life expands, so do we. Let's head deep into the life of another extraordinary wise older woman and see what wisdom arises. This is, in a nutshell, the life of Gayle Cue. This project was made possible with the support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation CBF.org. The WOW2 podcast version of the series will be available in July and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network (CRN) later in the year.
16 Jun 2026, 9am Belly Today, you're being invited to step into the life of somebody who’s lived more than one lifetime inside a single body. A human shaped by early blindness and strong inner vision, by deep grief and ecstatic joy, by plants and herbs, by art and queerness, by the land and animals, and by the wild, unstoppable force of inevitable reinvention. In this Episode we sit with a herbal rebel who helped spark a cultural movement. An artist who builds worlds out of imagination and recycled materials. We’ll wind through psychedelic forests and enter a story of queerness before language, of sensuality as a compass, of menopause as a meno-morphosis, and of a body that has been both battleground and oracle. It’s a story of losing pleasure, fighting for it, and reclaiming it in ways that defy medical expectations. It’s also a story of a person who refuses to disappear, even when the world tells ageing humans they should. Eliza’s life is art. It is rebellion. It is grief and grit and humour and endless magic. It is the exquisite mushroom growing from the compost. So, settle in. This is not just an interview, it’s an initiation. A journey through the alchemy of becoming, unbecoming, and becoming again. You are about to enter into the wonder filled world of Eliza Rix. This project was made possible with the support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation CBF.org. The WOW2 podcast version of the series will be available in July and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network (CRN) later in the year.