Speaker 1: Hi, Chrissy cast is welcome to the Christy Cast live
Speaker 1: from the Compound. Well, I asked you to ask me anything,
Speaker 1: and did you ever Sorry for the time I've taken
Speaker 1: to respond, but I've been thinking deeply about these questions
Speaker 1: and how to answer them with honesty and authenticity because
Speaker 1: those two things are very important to me. I'd like
Speaker 1: to introduce you to my external hard drive and new
Speaker 1: best friend forever, Rachel. Hello Rachel, Hi Chrisy. We've come
Speaker 1: to the conclusion that the best way to do this
Speaker 1: is for you to be the voice of the ask
Speaker 1: me anythings, Yes, and You're going to ask the questions
Speaker 1: and I'm going to answer them to the best of
Speaker 1: my ability.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's get cracking, all right.
Speaker 2: I think this is a really important one to start with,
Speaker 2: Yeadris and Coe just wanted to know what has been
Speaker 2: happening going.
Speaker 1: God, it has been a massive year for me, a
Speaker 1: massive year of change, And to be honest, I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting it because you know, when I had my midlife
Speaker 1: crisis a few years ago. By the way, totally recommend
Speaker 1: a midlife crisis, I thought that was it. I thought
Speaker 1: I'd have one cracking open year and then that would
Speaker 1: see me out, as my grand would say, But apparently not.
Speaker 1: This year has been massive, so many changes to my work,
Speaker 1: to my financial situation, to my family situation, to my
Speaker 1: mental situation, to my social situation, and I there has
Speaker 1: been times where I thought I wasn't going to make it,
Speaker 1: as in like I was going to survive it. But
Speaker 1: it did get very hard, which was also kind of
Speaker 1: exhilarating because I love a challenge and I love a
Speaker 1: problem to solve, and I feel like now I'm there,
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I've bunkered down and I've
Speaker 1: sorted a lot of stuff. So thank you for asking.
Speaker 1: What's been going on a lot, a damn lot.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we're going to do a fun one run.
Speaker 2: NBC wants to know. They said you're my absolute favorite
Speaker 2: on Big Brother. How did that change your life?
Speaker 1: It is so funny because Big Brother changed my life
Speaker 1: irrevocably forever and in the best way. So I applied
Speaker 1: to do Big Brother. And just in case you're of
Speaker 1: an age where you don't know what that phenomenon was,
Speaker 1: it was a TV show that everybody watched. Was twenty
Speaker 1: one years ago. I applied to be on that show,
Speaker 1: and the reason I applied was because I thought it
Speaker 1: would be funny for my friends to see me in there.
Speaker 1: And I never expected to get through the application process,
Speaker 1: and yet I did, and in true Chrissy style, once
Speaker 1: I was offered the opportunity to go in, it was
Speaker 1: deeply inconvenient. I was running my own business at the time,
Speaker 1: and anybody that runs their own business knows that that
Speaker 1: is not the sort of thing that you can readily outsource.
Speaker 1: So I was writing copy for the real estate industry
Speaker 1: and working from home. It's heaven me and my cat.
Speaker 1: It's is perfect. But I just thought, oh gosh, this
Speaker 1: is deeply inconvenient and very difficult. But I can't say no.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to I can't live with regret.
Speaker 1: And I know absolutely that had I made what was
Speaker 1: probably the sensible choice at the time to stay on
Speaker 1: my path and you know, know my limitations, I would
Speaker 1: have deeply regretted it. Absolutely. So I packed everything up
Speaker 1: and moved into dream world. Ha ha. We' like you know,
Speaker 1: fourteen strangers that you know I never would have met otherwise,
Speaker 1: and everything about it appealed to me, and you know,
Speaker 1: speaking of sort of opting out of my business for
Speaker 1: a while. The girl that I got to run at God,
Speaker 1: I can't remember her name now, Pip, I think her
Speaker 1: name was. I shall call her.
Speaker 2: I'll add it to the list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please do. So she ran the business and I
Speaker 1: said to her, listen, I'll be two weeks, Max. I'll
Speaker 1: be two weeks, Max, because i am not everyone's cup
Speaker 1: of tea, and I'm an unusual person to be in
Speaker 1: the Big Brother House and no one's gonna like me
Speaker 1: or vote to keep me in there. But it's going
Speaker 1: to be a great joke for my friends. So I'll
Speaker 1: see you in two weeks. Just do what you can
Speaker 1: in that time. Anyway. Of course, three months later I
Speaker 1: came out of the house and my life was irrevocably changed.
Speaker 1: It changed the course of my career. It injected so
Speaker 1: much fun and risk and new learnings in my life.
Speaker 1: And I've just you know, I've never regretted it for
Speaker 1: a second. And I'm also not one of these people
Speaker 1: that don't want to talk about it. I don't understand
Speaker 1: that there are some, you know, people that have been
Speaker 1: on the show that deeply want to distance themselves from
Speaker 1: it because they, I mean, this might be wrong. But
Speaker 1: my interpretation has always been that it's beneath them now
Speaker 1: because they've got different careers or whatever. But I'm so
Speaker 1: thrilled to talk about it, acknowledge it, be grateful for it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll answer any questions. And it's so weird.
Speaker 1: As I said, it's twenty one years since I've done
Speaker 1: that show, and since then, I've done so many radio shows,
Speaker 1: so many television shows, and yet I am stopped more
Speaker 1: often than any of the other shows or anything else
Speaker 1: I've ever done to talk about Big Brother because it
Speaker 1: was so massive at the time. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're much younger than me, Rachel, but do you remember
Speaker 1: the juggernaut of Big Brother? It was huge.
Speaker 2: I do, And I remember getting in a lot of
Speaker 2: trouble for trying to vote and racking up my home
Speaker 2: phone bill.
Speaker 1: Because it was expensive. Yeah, it was huge.
Speaker 2: Do you think that when you finished the show, though,
Speaker 2: that you felt like this was going to be the
Speaker 2: prefaces prefer Oh my god, that word, you know, precipice
Speaker 2: for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, No, absolutely not. You know, a guy that
Speaker 1: I met recently sort of said that I was very,
Speaker 1: very naive, and initially I was like, Oh, fine, that's
Speaker 1: what you think. But the truth is I am naive
Speaker 1: and I love that about myself because what it means
Speaker 1: is it keeps life interesting. And I get myself into
Speaker 1: precarious situations that I then have to get myself out of,
Speaker 1: and that's interesting to me. I had absolutely no concept
Speaker 1: that I could work in radio or television. I was
Speaker 1: an advertising copywriter, and I absolutely loved it. The thing is,
Speaker 1: I'd tried many many courses and careers before kind of
Speaker 1: backing myself to be a copywriter because I always thought
Speaker 1: that's such a cool job and I'm deeply uncool and
Speaker 1: that's too groovy for me. And then I I gave
Speaker 1: it a go and I loved it, and I was
Speaker 1: so proud of myself for doing what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: So I had no desire at all to change careers.
Speaker 1: And when I came out of the house and the
Speaker 1: opportunity to start in radio was given to me, my
Speaker 1: initial reaction was, Oh, my god, absolutely not. I'm thirty
Speaker 1: years old. I've worked very hard to get where I
Speaker 1: am and I'm very happy and I'm just going to
Speaker 1: go back to my life. But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: very soon I sort of worked out that my old
Speaker 1: life didn't exist anymore, and everybody knew who I was,
Speaker 1: and the guy that gave me my break in radio
Speaker 1: would not take no for an answer. His name is
Speaker 1: Mike Perso and he's still on air on Smooth and Breakfast,
Speaker 1: and he hounded me. I knocked him back four times.
Speaker 1: In fact, I always say to him, it's the most
Speaker 1: I've ever been pursued by a man, magically or otherwise.
Speaker 1: He just would take no. He wouldn't take no for
Speaker 1: an answer. So eventually they were opening a new launching
Speaker 1: a new radio station on the Sunshine Coast, and he
Speaker 1: just was certain that I was the person for the job.
Speaker 1: And it became very apparent that I couldn't really do
Speaker 1: what I was doing before because it involved going into
Speaker 1: people's houses to inspect their properties. And I would turn
Speaker 1: up and I was always u surprised by people's reaction
Speaker 1: because they knew who I was already and I didn't
Speaker 1: know them, and they wanted to talk to me about everything,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk to everyone about everything. And anyway,
Speaker 1: I just eventually called Mike and I said, listen, if
Speaker 1: I can bring my dog and I can drink coffee
Speaker 1: in the studio. Then you've got yourself a deal. And
Speaker 1: I packed up my car and my dog and I
Speaker 1: moved to the Sunshine Coast and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: And the interesting thing is that the minute I got
Speaker 1: into that studio, I knew that fate had drawn me
Speaker 1: a wonderful card, because I have loved it since the
Speaker 1: minute I got there, and just really enjoyed also the
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a new career at thirty, because at
Speaker 1: thirty you feel like you're old and you're done, and
Speaker 1: at forty you feel like you're old and you're done,
Speaker 1: and at fifty you feel like you're old and you're done.
Speaker 1: But I really thought that I was established, so to
Speaker 1: have this brand new adventure has been a great gift.
Speaker 2: Well, you've made some pretty great choices and decisions in
Speaker 2: your life, but Heidi Bert wants to know, have you
Speaker 2: ever made a decision in your life that you regret?
Speaker 1: Don't believe in regret. I really don't. The closest I've
Speaker 1: come to a regret is this to Europe this year
Speaker 1: for the very first time, and I couldn't believe how
Speaker 1: much I loved it. And anybody that's been to Europe.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know what I'm talking about. It's just magical,
Speaker 1: the food, the weather, the architecture, the history, the freedom,
Speaker 1: the relaxed life, the sort of lack of rules. And
Speaker 1: I got to London and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I think this feeling I'm feeling, apart from joy, is regret.
Speaker 1: Regret that I didn't move here when all my friends did,
Speaker 1: you know, in their twenties and get a job and
Speaker 1: go to the pub and get an English boyfriend, and
Speaker 1: you know, all that sort of stuff. But then I thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, Chrissy, remember that you can't regret anything
Speaker 1: because every decision that you make lee leads to something
Speaker 1: else fantastic. And you know, let's say, for example, I
Speaker 1: did move to London when I was twenty three. So
Speaker 1: many things, so many opportunities, so many elements of the
Speaker 1: life that I love now, so many experiences that I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed in those decades would have gone forever, like you know,
Speaker 1: meeting my first significant boyfriend who I'm still friends with,
Speaker 1: who I caught up with in London, that would have
Speaker 1: gone by the wayside. If I was still in London,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done Big Brother, So it goes back
Speaker 1: to my deeply sure feeling that you really cannot regret
Speaker 1: any decision that you make because every decision refracts like
Speaker 1: light into other amazing things, so you just can't.
Speaker 2: I love that. Now, speaking of love, everyone wants to know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: are you ready to find romantic love again? This question
Speaker 2: was asked by Julie Assol.
Speaker 1: Julie, you you have caused me a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of thinking, walking time a lot. In fact, this question,
Speaker 1: more than any of the others, has really made me
Speaker 1: stop down and think, because my initial reaction to that
Speaker 1: question are you open to finding love again? Is oh, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. And I think that that is kind of bluster,
Speaker 1: my kind of line, And you know, I suppose humorous
Speaker 1: take on it is you know that I'm blackhearted, and
Speaker 1: I joke with my co host on air, Jack Charles,
Speaker 1: on The Chrissy Swan Show that we don't believe in
Speaker 1: relationships and we can't do them and all of that,
Speaker 1: But I don't believe that that is actually true. The
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is I am a really good
Speaker 1: person and I love loving people and I get a
Speaker 1: lot out of it. But I also see, Julie, I've
Speaker 1: really thought about this. I know myself well enough to
Speaker 1: know that I can really only divide my pool of
Speaker 1: love three ways. That's my maximum And at the moment,
Speaker 1: those three ways are to my children and to my
Speaker 1: listeners and my podcasters and my viewers. And I know
Speaker 1: that that sounds that would sound strange to a lot
Speaker 1: of people, but honestly, the connection I have with you
Speaker 1: guys is really in my top three things that bring
Speaker 1: me joy along with my kids. I just love it
Speaker 1: and I care so deeply about it that I need
Speaker 1: to have the capacity to give that love freely. And
Speaker 1: it is a bit selfish too, because I get so
Speaker 1: much back from it. So the three kind of avenues
Speaker 1: of love to my children, who are going through some
Speaker 1: changes in their life, and they need to be front
Speaker 1: of mind for me because they're the most important people
Speaker 1: in my life. End of story. Then you guys come second.
Speaker 1: It's very important for me to be able to have
Speaker 1: the capacity and the energy and the mental real estate
Speaker 1: I call it, to be there for you and to
Speaker 1: make each other's days. That feels like a really lovely
Speaker 1: exchange that I have. And then the third pool of
Speaker 1: love has to go to myself. And when one of
Speaker 1: those lesson the need, the requiremate the essential nature of
Speaker 1: one of those avenues lessons, then I may be able
Speaker 1: to consider a relationship. In the meantime, I'll get my
Speaker 1: fix from friends, and I'm a really good friend and
Speaker 1: I have beautiful friends, and at the moment that is
Speaker 1: enough for me. I also don't like to do things
Speaker 1: half fast, and I feel like a relationship now for
Speaker 1: me would be deeply disappointing for whoever I'm in the
Speaker 1: relationship with, because they have expectations and that is fair,
Speaker 1: and I know that I can't meet those expectations in
Speaker 1: a way that would make me happy and proud.
Speaker 2: So no romantic love on the cards anytime soon.
Speaker 1: No, and that's it for another episode of the Christy
Speaker 1: Cast Live from the Compound, that very special Ask Me
Speaker 1: Anything series. There is another one coming at you, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to need a little lie down in a
Speaker 1: cup of tea first