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What if the worst thing anyone ever said to you became the story that changed your life?
This week, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt sits down with playwright, screenwriter and memoirist Lally Katz to talk about My Cursed Vagina, her brutally funny, wildly honest and unexpectedly moving memoir drawn from the past fifteen years of her life.
Before the awards, theatre acclaim and Hollywood success, Lally was a woman searching for love in all the wrong places: emotionally unavailable men, disastrous dates, psychic readings, one-night stands, impulsive decisions and relationships that left her questioning whether something inside her was fundamentally broken.
Then, during a snowstorm in New York, a psychic named Cookie told her she was cursed. According to Cookie, the problem was not just Lally’s love life. It was her vagina.
What follows is a conversation that moves between laugh-out-loud absurdity and profound emotional honesty. Georgie and Lally unpack the stories women tell themselves about love, desirability, self-worth and the dangerous habit of mistaking longing for intimacy.
In this conversation, Lally and Georgie talk about love, sex, shame, motherhood, creativity, heartbreak and the messy, humiliating, funny, deeply human things women do while trying to be chosen, understood and loved.
This episode covers:
The psychic reading in New York that inspired My Cursed Vagina
Why women can mistake intensity, longing and obsession for love
The boyfriend who called Lally his “flatmate” for eighteen months and refused to give her a key
Chasing emotionally unavailable men across cities and continents
Tinder, one-night stands, dating chaos and romantic fantasy
Receiving a herpes diagnosis and deciding to talk openly about STI stigma
The advice that helped Lally stop wasting her childbearing years with the wrong person
Meeting the man who would become her husband and marrying him in Las Vegas three months later
Miscarriage, motherhood and wanting both creative fulfilment and family
Turning heartbreak into art and why writing everything down became a survival mechanism
At its heart, My Cursed Vagina is not really about sex, psychics or even bad relationships. It is about the universal desire to be loved, the private stories women build around that longing, and what happens when a woman stops apologising for wanting everything: love, work, sex, art, adventure, children and purpose.
If you have ever stayed too long, loved too hard, overanalysed a text message, mistaken pain for passion, or wondered whether everyone else has somehow figured relationships out before you, this episode will hit home.
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My Cursed Vagina by Lally Katz is out now.
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Why do so many women wake up one day and feel like they want out? In this episode of You’re Gonna Want to Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt sits down with renowned psychoanalyst and bestselling author Stephen Grosz for a conversation about love, resentment, affairs, marriage, desire, emotional labour, and the complicated reality of trying to build a life with another person without losing yourself.
After more than 40 years inside the consulting room, and more than 75,000 hours listening to people talk about heartbreak, betrayal, longing and intimacy, Stephen has come to believe that love is not simply something we fall into. It is something we work at. Often, that work begins at the exact moment relationships stop feeling easy.
Together, Georgie and Stephen unpack why resentment can quietly poison even strong relationships, why contempt is often far more dangerous than anger, and why many people do not leave because they have stopped loving their partner, but because they no longer recognise themselves inside the relationship.
They also talk about affairs and what people are really searching for when they step outside a marriage, the emotional complexity of long-term love, the impact children can have on intimacy and desire, and why some couples emerge stronger after betrayal while others cannot recover.
Georgie opens up about her own experience with marriage counselling, co-parenting, and the small daily rituals that can soften even the hardest relationships.
This episode covers:
Why love requires labour
The resentment that can destroy relationships
Why contempt is often more dangerous than anger
The real psychology behind affairs
How children can change intimacy and desire
Why people leave because they dislike who they have become
The power of appreciation inside long-term relationships
What happiness in love can really look like
The line from Stephen that Georgie says “quietly rearranged the furniture” in her brain
Stephen Grosz is the author of The Examined Life and Love’s Labour.
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What does it take to sit across from one of the world’s most powerful men… and not flinch? In this week’s episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, Georgie McCourt sits down with legendary British broadcaster, journalist and author Emily Maitlis for a riveting conversation about career-defining interviews, the discipline of preparation, and why the best journalists never move on until they get an answer.
From the now-iconic Prince Andrew interview to covering revolutions, elections and some of the biggest global stories of our time, Emily reveals what was really going through her mind inside Buckingham Palace, why she locked herself in a bathroom moments before that interview… and how years of being underestimated as a “silly little girl” became her greatest strength.
She also opens up about motherhood in the public eye, the brutal early years of balancing young children with a high-pressure career, learning to lean into discomfort, and why women often become more powerful - - not less—as they get older.
Plus, Emily shares the one piece of advice every woman needs to hear right now.
In this episode, Emily shares:
Why great journalism is 80% preparation, 20% surrendering to chaos
The interview technique she swears by: “Don’t move on.”
What happened in the five minutes before the Prince Andrew interview
Why she never got angry sitting across from powerful men she believed weren’t telling the truth
How repetition, rejection and public mistakes built her confidence
The reality of raising children while living in the glare of public scrutiny
Why she feels more energised in her career now than ever before
Her next major investigation into the Epstein files
Her powerful message for women: “Choose your battles carefully… then fight for them.”
If you’ve ever struggled to ask the hard question, back yourself in a room full of powerful people, or wondered whether your best years are still ahead of you - this episode is for you.
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Emily Maitlis is the author of Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News and co-host of The News Agents.
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What happens when one of Australia’s most recognisable wellness voices, bestselling I Quit Sugar author and TED Talk speaker Sarah Wilson, stops talking about sugar and starts talking about the collapse of civilisation?
This week, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with journalist, author and activist Sarah Wilson for one of the most provocative conversations You’re Gonna Want To Hear This has aired yet, landing as Sarah launches her powerful new book, I Eat the Stars.
For more than a decade, Sarah has been researching what she calls collapse: the unravelling of the systems we’ve built around endless growth, convenience and consumption. In this deeply personal, often wildly funny and at times confronting conversation, she shares why she’s “broken up with hope,” why letting go of hope brought her relief, and why, despite everything she believes is coming, she says she’s never been happier.
In this conversation, Sarah Wilson joins marie claire editor Georgie McCourt to talk collapse, climate anxiety, AI, tech bros, motherhood, pregnancy loss, Paris, midlife reinvention, hiking, nature, philosophy, critical thinking and what it means to stay human in uncertain times.
This episode covers:
Why Sarah Wilson says “I’ve broken up with hope”
What collapse actually means and why Sarah believes we’re already living through it
Climate anxiety, burnout and how to live with uncertainty
AI, tech bros and why Sarah says “the robots aren’t coming”
Why young women should study philosophy, critical thinking and the humanities
The question many women are asking right now: should I still have children?
Why Sarah says the answer is “absolutely”
Pregnancy loss, motherhood, grief and finding peace with a different path
Moving to Paris before turning 50
French men, midlife reinvention and starting again
Hiking, nature, mental health and cathedral thinking
Sarah Wilson’s new book, I Eat the Stars
Sarah Wilson’s new book I Eat the Stars is out now.
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What actually gives women pleasure, and why are we still so bad at talking about it?
In this special Pleasure Issue episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt and Deputy Editor Mel Gaudron go inside the pages of the new issue, from the small joys that make life better to the bigger, messier conversations:
They unpack the orgasm gap, why women are still statistically being left behind when it comes to sexual satisfaction, dating after divorce, sex toys, long-term relationships, kissing, quitting friendships, hobbies that don’t make money, and the joy of yapping.
They also discuss Marie Claire’s May cover star Sarah Pidgeon, her role as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in Ryan Murphy’s Love Story, the ongoing obsession with Carolyn and JFK Jr, and why Carolyn’s style, mystique and story still have such a hold on women.
This episode covers:
Marie Claire Australia’s Pleasure Issue
The orgasm gap and women’s sexual wellbeing
Dating after divorce
Sex toys, desire and long-term relationships
Why kissing still matters
Hobbies, friendship breakups and small pleasures
Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Ryan Murphy’s Love Story
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and JFK Jr
Fashion, beauty, dermaplaning and sex dreams
Why women need to talk more openly about pleasure
The May issue of Marie Claire Australia, starring Sarah Pidgeon, is on sale now.
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