{"podcast":{"title":"Humans, being. with Lael Stone","slug":"humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374","podcast_index_feed_id":7489374,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans-being-with-lael-stone/feed.xml","website_url":"https://humansbeing.au/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans-being-with-lael-stone/20260106_030109_284dfdfbe6d31ffd1be295915a29c114.jpg","author":"Lael Stone","episode_count":20,"summary":"Humans, being .™ is a podcast created and presented by Lael Stone that explores the real stories behind the public personas. This podcast is about you as a listener, and for all of us to come home to realising that we are all humans being, doing the best job that we know how. I would love to hear from you – what questions you may have, what contemplations you've received from this episode, what guests you'd like me to have on, or any themes or topics you would love me to discuss. Send us a message on our site or on any of our social platforms: Web: humansbeing.au Instagram: @humansbeingwithlaelstone Facebook: @humansbeingwithlaelstone TikTok: @humansbeingwithlaelstone YouTube: @humansbeingwithlaelstone Brand/Partnerships: partnerships@humansbeing.au Connect with Lael: Web: laelstone.com.au Instagram: @laelstone Facebook: @laelstone Team: Brand and Creative by Mike Gaal, Original Music by Josh Reed, Recorded at WeMOV, Melbourne, Produced by Nigel Carboon. Humans, being .™ is produced on the lands of the Bunurong and Wathaurong people. We pay respect to their unique and diverse cultures and to elders past, present and future.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T20:17:37.991277+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374"},"episode":{"title":"Libby Trickett, being. with Lael Stone | You Were Always Enough ♥︎","slug":"libby-trickett-being-with-lael-stone-you-were-always-enough","published_at":"2026-04-12T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374/libby-trickett-being-with-lael-stone-you-were-always-enough","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/humans-being-with-lael-stone-7489374","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans-being-with-lael-stone/2545429","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/347610/2545429/humans-being-with-lael-stone/2026_04_07_04_40_29_018a8326-c56c-4a31-a9dd-85a2fcc4d92f.mp3","summary":"Libby Trickett surfaced from the pool at the Beijing Olympics, saw the number one next to her name, and waited for the feeling of being enough. It didn't come. Libby is mum to five children, including baby Archie, who was snuggled on her chest throughout our entire conversation. She opens up about postnatal depression after her first daughter, Poppy, about the Father wound that quietly drove her to the pool every single day, and about the moment she realised that winning gold wasn't going to make her whole. We also explore her passionate advocacy for keeping girls in sport. We explore: The relentlessness of early motherhood, and why admitting it's boring sometimes is actually the most honest thing you can say What Libby's postnatal depression cracked open in her - and why she now sees it as one of the most important experiences of her life The Beijing gold medal, and the moment Libby realised that winning the thing she'd wanted her whole life, still left a void Libby's advocacy work around girls and sport: why participation drops off and what we can do about it The only thing that matters in parenting - and why it's not organic food, sleep training, or getting the birth story \"right\" What I keep coming back to, sitting with this conversation, is Libby saying: \"I was always enough.\" Seven Olympic medals, world records, five children - and still, that simple truth was the hardest thing to find. What I love about Libby is that she's doing the work. She's right in it. And she's raising five little humans to know their enoughness from the start. To me, that's the most important gold medal of all. [Recorded Remotely October 2025] About Libby Trickett: Libby Trickett is a seven-time Olympic medallist with four gold medals who represented Australia at three consecutive Olympic…","meta_description":"Libby Trickett surfaced from the pool at the Beijing Olympics, saw the number one next to her name, and waited for the feeling of being enough. 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