Bestie Boos

This week on Bestie Boos, the group chat is FULL. We’re kicking things off with a Kardashian intro (lol), then diving into the Playboy world, some wild revelations and whether the upcoming Playboy movie will romanticise Hugh Hefner and his infamous empire. Crystal Harris has some advice for Jessica Biel, but Holly reckons there’s plenty to look forward to?! 👀

We’re also talking Christa Pike — she’s awake and back in jail. UM, WTF?! Plus, Dakota Johnson reveals how Fifty Shades really played out, and photographer Tim Walker’s nude portrait of Harry Styles has us chatting about queer identity, community and love.

Meanwhile, the school holidays have us asking the big question: are we actually surviving? 😂 And speaking of big questions, when is it socially acceptable to start celebrating Christmas? We need answers.

We’re sharing what we’re vibing, from Morphe’s Complexion Boost Peptide Glow Serum to Clinique when you’re feeling a little boujee. We’re still as skincare-obsessed as ever. ✨

Sarah’s had a big week of birds paying her a visit, there’s been a dead dog meltdown, and Sam’s vegetable obsession has sparked a very important debate about what’s actually good versus what you just like eating. 🥦 We’re also doing a little homestead check-in to see how our homes are holding up.

And with Cup Day, Olivia Dean at Western Springs, Halloween on a Saturday and an Estilo birthday event coming up, there’s plenty to look forward to.

Another week, another very Bestie Boos chat. Welcome to the chaos. 🍋💕

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About Bestie Boos Podcast

Bestie Boos is a New Zealand podcast hosted by best friends Sam Baxter and Sarah Direen. Every week, the girls dive into friendship, motherhood, relationships, careers, pop culture, celebrity news, entertainment, reality TV, music, internet trends, viral moments and the everyday chaos of life.

With a Christchurch and Kiwi perspective, Sam and Sarah also share the more personal parts of their own stories.

Sam shares her experience of grief after losing her husband to cancer, raising a child as a solo parent and navigating life as a widow and single mum. Sarah is sperm donor conceived and openly shares her experiences around donor conception, identity, family, motherhood and growing up as a donor child.

Together, they have honest conversations about widowhood, grief after cancer, loss, single motherhood, solo parenting, donor conception, fertility, family, identity and navigating big life changes — alongside plenty of laughs, pop culture chaos and the everyday stuff of being best friends.

If you love podcasts like Shameless, The Girls Bathroom, The Spill, Mamamia Out Loud or Call Her Daddy, you’ll feel right at home with Bestie Boos.
Whether you’re here for celebrity drama, pop culture deep dives, true crime, friendship chats, motherhood, relationships, widowhood, grief, cancer and loss, single parenting, donor conception, fertility, family, life in your 30s or just a laugh with your besties — there’s something for you here.

Whatever brought you to Bestie Boos, welcome to the group chat. 💕🍋

New episodes are released weekly and are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

📸 Instagram: @bestieboosshow
🎵 TikTok: @bestieboosshow
▶️ YouTube: Bestie Boos Show
📧 Contact: mailto:bestieboosshow@gmail.com

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This week on Bestie Boos, Sam has had a MASSIVE showdown with Fisher & Paykel — and let’s just say it was stressful, but worth it! 👀

We’re also talking about some of the best employee perks in the world, from our own previous wins through to companies that give their staff free beauty products (Sephora!) and heavily discounted travel (Air NZ!), plus some pretty sweet staff discounts. Which companies actually have the BEST perks? We’ve done the digging!

In pop culture, we’re chatting Ed Sheeran, Pink, Macklemore and Zach Bryan, plus Taylor Swift’s surprise encore songs. We’re also talking Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett in the new Verity movie, the Colleen Hoover effect and whether this latest book-to-film adaptation is going to live up to the hype.

It’s also been a HUGE week for true crime, with Lindsay Clancy back in court, Ashley Flynn’s murder, Krista Pike’s botched lethal injection and Gypsy Rose making her way into the group chat. 😳

Plus, we’ve got a random birthday party story and a TikTok rabbit hole about micropayments and paying off debt. 😂

And with the school holidays in full swing, we’re chatting about Warehouse Stationery and The Salvation Army’s Thank a Teacher appeal. Kiwis can create a free personalised card for a teacher who made a difference, and for every card created, Warehouse Stationery will donate $2 — up to $50,000 — to help provide school essentials to tamariki experiencing hardship. ❤️ The campaign runs from 5 October to 1 November.

Another week, another very Bestie Boos chat. Welcome to the chaos. 🍋💕

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About Bestie Boos Podcast
Bestie Boos is a New Zealand podcast hosted by best friends Sam Baxter and Sarah Direen. Every week, the girls dive into friendship, motherhood, relationships, careers, pop culture, celebrity news, entertainment, reality TV, music, internet trends, viral moments and the everyday chaos of life.

With a Christchurch and Kiwi perspective, Sam and Sarah also share the more personal parts of their own stories.

Sam shares her experience of grief after losing her husband to cancer, raising a child as a solo parent and navigating life as a widow and single mum. Sarah is sperm donor conceived and openly shares her experiences around donor conception, identity, family, motherhood and growing up as a donor child.

Together, they have honest conversations about widowhood, grief after cancer, loss, single motherhood, solo parenting, donor conception, fertility, family, identity and navigating big life changes — alongside plenty of laughs, pop culture chaos and the everyday stuff of being best friends.

If you love podcasts like Shameless, The Girls Bathroom, The Spill, Mamamia Out Loud or Call Her Daddy, you’ll feel right at home with Bestie Boos.
Whether you’re here for celebrity drama, pop culture deep dives, true crime, friendship chats, motherhood, relationships, widowhood, grief, cancer and loss, single parenting, donor conception, fertility, family, life in your 30s or just a laugh with your besties — there’s something for you here.

Whatever brought you to Bestie Boos, welcome to the group chat. 💕🍋

New episodes are released weekly and are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

📸 Instagram: @bestieboosshow
🎵 TikTok: @bestieboosshow
▶️ YouTube: Bestie Boos Show
📧 Contact: mailto:bestieboosshow@gmail.com

⭐ If you love Bestie Boos, please follow, rate, review and share the podcast with your besties. It helps more people find us!

#BestieBoos #NZPodcast #NewZealandPodcast #ChristchurchPodcast #PopCulture #CelebrityNews #EntertainmentPodcast #TrueCrimePodcast #KiwiPodcast #PodcastBesties

This week on Bestie Boos, we’re joined by Rebecca Keil — OG Kiwi influencer, lifestyle content creator and all-round truth teller! ❤️

Rebecca has been sharing her life online since the early days of influencing, so we chat about what it was like being one of New Zealand’s original lifestyle influencers, how social media has changed, and what it’s really like having your life play out online.

We also get into some much more personal conversations, including Rebecca’s whānau journey to reclaiming te reo Māori and her surrogacy journey — a really honest chat about something she’s experienced firsthand.

It’s funny, honest, personal and full of the kind of conversations we love having on Bestie Boos. 💕

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About Bestie Boos Podcast

Bestie Boos is a New Zealand podcast hosted by best friends Sam Baxter and Sarah Direen. Every week, the girls dive into friendship, motherhood, relationships, careers, pop culture, celebrity news, entertainment, reality TV, music, internet trends, viral moments and the everyday chaos of life.

With a Christchurch and Kiwi perspective, Sam and Sarah also share the more personal parts of their own stories.

Sam shares her experience of grief after losing her husband to cancer, raising a child as a solo parent and navigating life as a widow and single mum. Sarah is sperm donor conceived and openly shares her experiences around donor conception, identity, family, motherhood and growing up as a donor child.

Together, they have honest conversations about widowhood, grief after cancer, loss, single motherhood, solo parenting, donor conception, fertility, family, identity and navigating big life changes — alongside plenty of laughs, pop culture chaos and the everyday stuff of being best friends.

If you love podcasts like Shameless, The Girls Bathroom, The Spill, Mamamia Out Loud or Call Her Daddy, you’ll feel right at home with Bestie Boos.

Whether you’re here for celebrity drama, pop culture deep dives, true crime, friendship chats, motherhood, relationships, widowhood, grief, cancer and loss, single parenting, donor conception, fertility, family, life in your 30s or just a laugh with your besties — there’s something for you here.

Whatever brought you to Bestie Boos, welcome to the group chat. 💕🍋

New episodes are released weekly and are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

📸 Instagram: @bestieboosshow
🎵 TikTok: @bestieboosshow
▶️ YouTube: Bestie Boos Show
📧 Contact: mailto:bestieboosshow@gmail.com

⭐ If you love Bestie Boos, please follow, rate, review and share the podcast with your besties. It helps more people find us!

#BestieBoos #NZPodcast #NewZealandPodcast #ChristchurchPodcast #PopCulture #CelebrityNews #EntertainmentPodcast #FriendshipPodcast #PodcastBesties

This week on Bestie Boos, we’re back with a very full catch-up — from David the Medium ticket updates and a few big Warriors games to birthday celebrations, beauty recaps and plenty of pop culture chaos.

In pop culture, we’re talking Taylor Swift at the CMAs, Lady Gaga and her growing family, the Spice Girls trolling us, Liv Golf’s bankruptcy drama, Lululemon founder Chip Wilson’s divorce debacle, and the return of Focker in Law with Ariana Grande!

The Earles Meet World and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives have us HOOKED, and we go deep on Stella Lefty versus Noah Kahan.

Thank you for the amazing feedback on our last episode with Stacey Banfield. We chat about what we’ve actually implemented and the beauty tips we’re loving. 💄✨

We also have a very special and important conversation with our friend Kaitlin from New York City, reflecting on her experiences around 9/11, 25 years on from that tragic day. We chat about what she remembers, how those events shaped her, and what it was like for us here in New Zealand, watching everything unfold from the other side of the world. 🗽❤️

Plus, Sam’s little girl is turning FOUR, so we’re chatting birthday parties, pranking, and a very random TikTok rabbit hole involving Burning Man and a 15-foot houseboat.

And at the end, there’s a very standard Bestie Boos ramble from the two of us. Sorry about that… but hey, just another week! 😂

Just two besties catching up on life, pop culture, beauty, friendship, family, history and whatever else comes into our heads along the way. 💕

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Bestie Boos is a New Zealand podcast hosted by best friends Sam Baxter and Sarah Direen. Every week, the girls dive into the latest pop culture news, celebrity gossip, entertainment headlines, reality TV, music, internet trends, viral moments and the everyday chaos of life.

With a Christchurch and Kiwi perspective, Sam and Sarah chat about everything from friendship, motherhood, relationships and careers to navigating life in your 30s, sharing plenty of laughs, honest opinions and relatable stories along the way.

If you love podcasts like Shameless, The Girls Bathroom, The Spill, Mamamia Out Loud or Call Her Daddy, you’ll feel right at home with Bestie Boos.

Whether you’re here for the celebrity drama, pop culture deep dives, true crime, friendship chats, life updates or just a laugh with your besties, there’s something for everyone.

New episodes are released weekly and are available to listen to on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Listen & Follow:
📸 Instagram: @bestieboosshow
🎵 TikTok: @bestieboosshow
▶️ YouTube: Bestie Boos Show
📧 Contact: mailto:bestieboosshow@gmail.com

⭐ If you love Bestie Boos, please follow, rate, review and share the podcast with your besties. It helps more people find us!

#BestieBoos #NZPodcast #NewZealandPodcast #ChristchurchPodcast #PopCulture #CelebrityNews #EntertainmentPodcast #FriendshipPodcast #PodcastBesties

Episode 76: The Beauty Secrets You NEED to Know This Spring! Tips from NZ’s FAVE Makeup Artist, Stacey Banfield 💄✨

This week on Bestie Boos, we’re getting our beauty bags ready for spring! 🌸💄

We’re joined by Stacey Banfield, a highly respected, fully qualified Christchurch makeup artist with more than 16 years of experience in the beauty industry. Stacey has worked with internationally renowned brands including Chanel, Smashbox Cosmetics and MAC Cosmetics, and has built a reputation as one of New Zealand’s go-to makeup artists for weddings, special occasions, commercial shoots and personalised makeup lessons.

We get the full story on how Stacey got into the beauty industry, what she’s learnt over 16+ years in the game, and what it’s really like working as a freelance makeup artist across New Zealand and internationally.

And, most importantly… we want to know what’s actually IN for spring! 👀

Stacey takes us through the makeup trends we should be paying attention to, the ones we can probably leave behind, and all the little tips and tricks that can make a HUGE difference to your makeup. From complexion and application to products, techniques and making your makeup work for you, we’re taking notes.

Whether you're a full-blown makeup girlie or someone who still isn't entirely sure what half the brushes in your makeup bag are for, this episode is basically your spring beauty masterclass.

Plus, we chat about Stacey’s own beauty business, Soleil & Soul, and how she’s grown her business into a full-service destination with a team of makeup and hair artists servicing clients across Canterbury.

And because Stacey is an absolute angel, we’ve got a giveaway! 💕 Two lucky Bestie Boos listeners will each win a Soleil & Soul beauty bundle including a peachy cosmetic bag, lip mask and complexion brush. Head to @bestieboosshow on Instagram to find out how to enter!

Just two besties getting beauty advice, asking ALL the questions, and trying to figure out what the hell we’re supposed to be doing with our makeup this spring. 💕✨

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About Bestie Boos Podcast

Bestie Boos is a New Zealand podcast hosted by best friends Sam Baxter and Sarah Direen. Every week, the girls dive into the latest pop culture news, celebrity gossip, entertainment headlines, lifestyle trends, internet moments, and the everyday chaos of life.

Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Bestie Boos brings a uniquely Kiwi perspective to conversations about pop culture, beauty, lifestyle, motherhood, friendship, careers, relationships, entertainment, social media, sport and navigating life in your 30s.

From celebrity news and viral trends to honest conversations about motherhood, friendship, work, relationships, mental health, beauty, fashion and everyday life, no topic is off limits.

Bestie Boos is the podcast for women who love pop culture, celebrity gossip, lifestyle content, beauty tips, makeup, fashion, parenting chats, relatable conversations and a good laugh with their best friends.

If you love podcasts like Shameless, The Girls Bathroom, The Spill, Mamamia Out Loud or Call Her Daddy, you’ll feel right at home. Expect honest opinions, hot takes, relatable life chats, plenty of laughs and the kind of conversations you’d have with your besties over coffee (or wine).

New episodes drop every week!

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• Contact: mailto:bestieboosshow@gmail.com

⭐ Follow, rate, review and share with your besties — every follow, rating and recommendation helps Bestie Boos reach more listeners across New Zealand and around the world. 💕