Speaker 1: Good morning everyone.
Speaker 2: I have some very big Katie news for today's episode
Speaker 2: of the mat Sonya podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry if I sound a bit shit.
Speaker 2: I'm recording this in bed at six am, and aslad
Speaker 2: as i'm being I'm trying not to wake my housemate up,
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 1: Wind's banging against the window.
Speaker 2: But I've just woke up and I want to get
Speaker 2: this wonderful update to all of you people as soon
Speaker 2: as possible. But before I get to what's happening present day,
Speaker 2: here's a grab from last night's episode, just to remind
Speaker 2: ourselves of the latest what we've seen on screen of
Speaker 2: Katie and warning. I mean you've already watched it, but
Speaker 2: this is quite emotional to listen to.
Speaker 3: It's just so much there. I'm trying to get to
Speaker 3: know him, but like it's so obvious, like he's not
Speaker 3: into me because of my physical like when I am physically,
Speaker 3: Like there's no lust, there's no spark, like I can
Speaker 3: put it all together.
Speaker 1: I'm not an idiot, like.
Speaker 3: Like why come here if you're going to not trying
Speaker 3: to be open?
Speaker 1: This sucks.
Speaker 3: Like after so many years, like what else is there?
Speaker 3: Like rejection after rejection after rejection like the common denominator
Speaker 3: is me.
Speaker 1: I've tried everything else. Now this isn't working either.
Speaker 2: After revealing all of her insecurities and the body shaming
Speaker 2: she's received in the past from exes to the experts
Speaker 2: before our wedding. As we all watched earlier this week,
Speaker 2: you know, Katie was genuinely hopeful about doing the show.
Speaker 2: Then obviously we watched over the last four episodes as
Speaker 2: that hope and little bit of belief she had in
Speaker 2: herself has just been destroyed by Tim's continual rejection. Well,
Speaker 2: this was all filmed at the end of July and
Speaker 2: start of August last year, and if you're wondering how
Speaker 2: Katie is doing now six months later, she's basically a
Speaker 2: new woman. A close friend of hers, who runs Studio Republic,
Speaker 2: which is Australia's leading empowerment photo studio, reached out to
Speaker 2: me yesterday and shared some audio that I'm about to
Speaker 2: play to you. This audio was recorded earlier this month,
Speaker 2: so a couple of weeks ago in their photo studio,
Speaker 2: after Katie had asked them to do a photo shoot
Speaker 2: for her.
Speaker 1: Now take a listen to this.
Speaker 2: I'm warning you will not be able to get through
Speaker 2: this audio with a big smile farming on your face.
Speaker 4: It's all about self love, though, I really resonated with
Speaker 4: empowerment and feeling great within your own skin. I'm going
Speaker 4: on such a journey in my life. It's taken me
Speaker 4: like a long time to feel really good in my
Speaker 4: own skin, and I feel like this is just a
Speaker 4: good reinforcement of that. Like we get one body, and
Speaker 4: we get one chance about being like here now in
Speaker 4: this moment, and I want to do it like shining.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be all of me one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Doing things like this helps bring that out in you,
Speaker 4: and all in all, I.
Speaker 1: Like what I see.
Speaker 4: I like my curves are like my stretch marks are
Speaker 4: like saggy bits, the lumpy bits, the good bits at all.
Speaker 4: The only person that I would to manifest love for
Speaker 4: is myself right now. Like I feel like if your
Speaker 4: cup's full, then it can overflow. You're the only one
Speaker 4: with your journey, You're the only one with your background.
Speaker 4: You're the only one that's had to pull yourself through
Speaker 4: the trenches to get where you are, and that's worthy
Speaker 4: of celebration. It doesn't matter what you look like, so celebrate.
Speaker 4: That's I'm here celebrating myself. You become your own soulmate.
Speaker 4: It's constant work to remind yourself to stay anchored in
Speaker 4: who you are. I've been through my whole life under
Speaker 4: the pressure of the scrutiny of society telling me what
Speaker 4: I should be doing as a woman and what I
Speaker 4: should be should look like as a woman.
Speaker 3: And like the.
Speaker 4: Shoulds of life always like it laid on everyone. Nobody's
Speaker 4: exempted from it unless you really learned to stand in
Speaker 4: your own power. So and everything else just fall the way.
Speaker 2: How incredible is the contrast between that first grab from
Speaker 2: last night's episode to.
Speaker 1: Her now speaking in that photo studio.
Speaker 2: It feels like, as horrible as the Luke stuff is
Speaker 2: to watch on screen right now, in a bizarre way,
Speaker 2: there's like a positive.
Speaker 1: In it all.
Speaker 2: And that experience was like the catalyst vocated to look
Speaker 2: within and work on these insecurities and things that you
Speaker 2: know she's struggled with and has been drowning in for
Speaker 2: so long.
Speaker 1: And now look at a literal queen.
Speaker 2: Also, I reckon a lot of us can kind of
Speaker 2: relate to that, Like we have all had that one
Speaker 2: person or shit situation or incident in our past that
Speaker 2: kind of led to our own bottom, and once at
Speaker 2: that level, we then realized like, nah, fuck this, like
Speaker 2: we've got a change and we're doing it for ourselves.
Speaker 1: I literally released a book about mine in November.
Speaker 2: And it was like my diary of the last few years,
Speaker 2: which started the day my husband left me. And when
Speaker 2: that happened, I just then I was destroyed. I spiraled
Speaker 2: into sleeping with as many people as possible just to
Speaker 2: try and get any kind of validation because I felt
Speaker 2: worthless and all these things I'd struggled with for all
Speaker 2: of my life, like confidence and a lack of belief,
Speaker 2: were now so heightened that Yeah, rather than looking within,
Speaker 2: I was trying to find that validation externally. But then
Speaker 2: over time, and that's kind of the journey of my book,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, maybe like this is what you know,
Speaker 2: This that incident and him leaving was what I needed
Speaker 2: to work on these things.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not exactly like Katie and said, but
Speaker 2: I think you know what I'm saying. And then yeah,
Speaker 2: just to wrap this up, I'm just happy for Katie
Speaker 2: because it seems like she's doing incredible present days. So
Speaker 2: as we're I watching these scenes and you know, becoming
Speaker 2: upset and heartbroken for her. Let's remember she's got through that.
Speaker 2: That was six months ago, and she's killing it now