Curveball – The Club you didn't want to be part of
Episodes
38 episodes
Mid-Life Straight Male Sex Workers - Part 2
This is Part 2! Please listen to Part 1 first. Touch and sexual expression are a fundamental part of our humanity, a powerful way to connect with others and ourselves. Sex as a means of making a living - an ancient art - is rarely encouraged by...
Mid-Life Straight Male Sex Workers - Part 1
Touch and sexual expression are a fundamental part of our humanity, a powerful way to connect with others and ourselves. Sex as a means of making a living - an ancient art - is rarely encouraged by career counsellors; so, what leads someone to ...
Sex Workers - Life Lessons Part 2
We all have a different understanding of our sexuality. Depending on our circumstances and upbringing, many of us are left to discover it on our own. If there's any education, sex is generally taught as something precious and private between tw...
Sex Workers - Life Lessons Part 1
We all have a different understanding of our sexuality. Depending on our circumstances and upbringing, many of us are left to discover it on our own. If there's any education, sex is generally taught as something precious and private between tw...
Homelessness - Part Two
What happens when you can't pay the rent or find anywhere cheaper? Perhaps you or your dependents are ill, divorce or loss has left you short, or you're unemployed or retired with minimal savings, or you've left a bad situation. No one imagines...
Homelessness - Part One
What happens when you can't pay the rent or find anywhere cheaper? Perhaps you or your dependents are ill, divorce or loss has left you short, or you're unemployed or retired with minimal savings, or you've left a bad situation. No one ...
Alcoholism - Part 2
Part Two - we highly recommend listening to Part 1 first!In Australia, drinking alcohol is invariably a rite of passage into adulthood, an intrinsic part of our culture for better or worse. It’s fun, relaxing and a social lubricant; som...
Alcoholism - Part 1
In Australia, drinking alcohol is invariably a rite of passage into adulthood, an intrinsic part of our culture for better or worse. It’s fun, relaxing and a social lubricant; sometimes, it becomes a coping mechanism to deal with stress, anxiet...
Mature Age Students - Second Adulthood
We leave school with plans to study or work and an idea of how life might unfold, but as the saying goes: "Life is what happens when we're busy making other plans." Some people want to change course or expand, returning to study at a later age....
Family Court Trauma - Part 2
This is Part 2. We highly recommend you listen to Part 1 first.When we partner and have children, no one imagines they will end up in family court fighting to access those children or keep them safe from a person once trust...
Family Court Trauma - Part 1
When we partner and have children, no one imagines they will end up in family court fighting to access those children or keep them safe from a person once trusted. What is it like to deal with the family court in Australia? Guided...
Falling In Love Unexpectedly - Part 2
Part Two (We highly recommend listening to Part One first)Humans are social creatures wired to seek connection, and we grow up with stories of romantic love and the assumption we will partner. What’s it like when you’re not looking fo...
Falling In Love Unexpectedly - Part 1
Humans are social creatures wired to seek connection, and we grow up with stories of romantic love and the assumption we will partner. What’s it like when you’re not looking for love, you’ve been there, done that, or content single - or partner...
Estranged From Fathers - Part 2
Part Two ( We highly recommend you listen to Part One first) Our fathers are pivotal in our lives, assuming they're present as role models and caregivers - we hope they love us and have our best interests in mind. The father/daughter r...
Estranged From Fathers - Part 1
Our fathers are pivotal in our lives, assuming they're present as role models and caregivers - we hope they love us and have our best interests in mind. The father/daughter relationship is key to a girl's development and self-esteem. So what ha...
Curveball - Emigration Experience Part 2
Part Two This is a conversation between three women from different countries (Brazil, Singapore and India), strangers with a commonality: they emigrated to Australia. The decision is to pack up and move away from your exte...
Curveball - Emigration Experience Part 1
The decision is to pack up and move away from your extended family, friends, and culture to live in a foreign land. Perhaps for work, to broaden opportunities, education, love or adventure, or simply to live a better or a different life. We ima...
Curveball - Single Mothers By Choice
As children, we read stories about romance and living happily ever after. We learn there’s a script to follow: find our passion, our job, meet somebody and create a family. What happens when your life doesn’t follow that script, and you are sin...
Later Life Lesbians - Part 2
Part Two (We recommend listening to Part One first) The conversation continues. Guided by the host, Beth Armstrong, three bold, funny and wise women speak together anonymously to share their stories of coming out later in life and how ...
Later Life Lesbians - Part 1
You’re married or partnered, maybe have children, a career and your identity is heterosexual, but then you’re single again and unexpectedly you fall in love with a woman. How does that work? Guided by the host, Beth Armstrong, three bol...
Curveball - Child Abuse Part 2
Part Two (We highly recommend you listen to Part One first)The host, Beth Armstrong, guides an in-depth discussion between three brave, astute and articulate women who speak together anonymously to share their stories of abuse when they wer...
Curveball - Child Abuse Part 1
As children, we grow and learn the ways of the world and what is right and wrong. Our parents and carers, who we rely on, are our guides. But what happens when they or any person asks you to do something, or someone does something to you, touch...
Domestic Violence - Intimate Partner
We meet someone, fall in love, and develop a relationship, but then something happens, and your partner hurts, manipulates or frightens you. Perhaps you address it, but it's denied, or it's somehow your fault, or they apologise and promise it w...
Curveball - Estranged From Mothers
Our mothers birth us and/or raise us, and if so, are naturally pivotal in our lives as role models and caregivers - we hope they love us and have our best interests in mind and that we love them. But what happens when that isn't the case, or th...
Grew Up In A Cult And Escaped - Part 2
Part Two (We recommend listening to Part One first) We are born into a family with a set of values and beliefs that might evolve. Some families are strict adherents to a particular religion or cult, which rejects the mainstream. As chi...
