# Ali Daddo, being. with Lael Stone | Taking up Space β™₯︎ Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374/ali-daddo-being-with-lael-stone-taking-up-space Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374/ali-daddo-being-with-lael-stone-taking-up-space.md Podcast: [Humans, being. with Lael Stone](https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374) Published: 2026-03-29T19:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/humans-being-with-lael-stone/2545420 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/347610/2545420/humans-being-with-lael-stone/2026_03_22_22_09_48_9b5b95a3-dbde-485c-974b-c988134421ec.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374/episodes/ali-daddo-being-with-lael-stone-taking-up-space Duration seconds: 4160 ## Resource I grew up with Ali Daddo on my wall. And like so many of us, I looked at that image and thought - that's it. That's what it means to arrive. What I didn't know - what none of us knew - was that even being the β€˜it’ girl comes with challenges. This beautiful conversation really opens up about the pressures we feel as a woman, from the tween and teen years, into motherhood and menopause. We explore Ali's "standing in front of a 747 jet engine" image of society's pressure not to age, and what women actually find on the other side of all that noise. We also get deep about long-term love - Esther Perel's three marriages to the same person, (what it takes to reinvent in the third one), and what "making art from a marriage" actually looks like in practice. We explore: The "currency" of appearance: what we inherit, what it costs us, and what happens when the market changes as we age The grandmother whale theory: why Ali believes women stop being fertile because they're meant to lead Reinventing long-term love post-menopause Aviiana, the wellness platform Ali co-founded with Mary Doube, and the whole vision to help women thrive with confidence What it feels like to finally be "out of the game you never asked to be in" - and why that might be the most liberating thing that's ever happened to us Ali is a little further down this path than me and I am so grateful to have her shining a light from up ahead. What she's showing me is that the other side isn't smaller. It's more. More voice. More space. More of yourself. πŸ’› [Recorded Remotely November 2025] About Ali Daddo: Ali Daddo began her career as one of Australia's most recognisable models and presenters before spending 25 years in the United States, where she worked as a birth assistant and Steiner early childhood educator. She's… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374/episodes/ali-daddo-being-with-lael-stone-taking-up-space/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374/ali-daddo-being-with-lael-stone-taking-up-space.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.