I’m Mia Freedman and this is my newsletter, where I share thoughts, feelings and outfits.

I am the co-founder of an Australian women’s media company called Mamamia. We reach about 7 million women every month and have one of the world’s largest podcast networks for women.

My career began in magazines where I started as work experience at a mag called Cleo at 19 and became Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan at 24. During my magazine years, I wrote and published a ridiculous number of sealed sections but still managed to fall pregnant accidentally several times so clearly I should have paid more attention to the contraception articles.

I began Mamamia in 2006 as a blog in my lounge room and my husband came onboard as my co-founder about 18 months later. Together we have built Mamamia into Australia’s largest independent digital media company where we make content for women across podcasts, written, social, video, courses, summits and audio series.

I’ve written several books including this memoir which has been the inspiration for a dramedy called Strife about a former magazine editor who launches….a women’s website. I’m one of the Executive Producers along with Bruna Papendrea from Made Up Stories and the star of Strife, Asher Keddie.

You might know me from the Babble videos I post to Instagram where I chat while putting on my makeup in the morning or from my podcasts, Mamamia Outloud. I used to host an interview show called No Filter but I stepped away from that in 2024 to focus on Outloud and to work on some new creative projects.

Mamamia Outloud is Australia’s #1 pop culture and news podcast and I co-host that show every day.
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