Speaker 1: Hey, you guys might have seen the show that's airing
Speaker 1: at the moment on Channel nine called The Summit. Now
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it before. This is the second season,
Speaker 1: but it's this crazy show where you go to the
Speaker 1: Alps and it's really really rugged terrain in New Zealand
Speaker 1: and you have to I think there's fourteen contestants. You
Speaker 1: have cash in your backpack, like a share of a
Speaker 1: million big ones, and you have to hike to the
Speaker 1: top of this summit and if you get there, you
Speaker 1: get whatever money's in your backpack. But just like backstabbing,
Speaker 1: and you can steal money along the way and people
Speaker 1: drop out they can't make it, and so you need
Speaker 1: to try and accumulate as much money as you can get.
Speaker 1: And now one of the contestants on there is Olympia
Speaker 1: of a Lance. You might know her. She's a very
Speaker 1: famous Australian actress and model. You probably know he from Neighbors,
Speaker 1: but she was also on Playing for Keeps The Last Barbarian.
Speaker 1: The message. We're going to chat to Olympia today because
Speaker 1: she is one of the contestants. Hi, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Olympia.
Speaker 3: Hi, Hi kay, Hi, are you weird?
Speaker 2: I mean I'm so intrigued as to why you why did.
Speaker 1: You do this in the first place.
Speaker 4: It is such a good show, But I have to
Speaker 4: admit that going into it, I was supposed to watch
Speaker 4: season one, so I kind of knew what I was
Speaker 4: in for. I got the gist. I didn't watch the
Speaker 4: first season in full, but my goodness, I should have.
Speaker 4: There was so many things that I didn't know. That
Speaker 4: we were going to be sleeping outside and not intent.
Speaker 4: I didn't really understand how hectic and hard these very
Speaker 4: very steep, eight hour hyps a day would be. I
Speaker 4: didn't really. I thought there may have been like an obstacle,
Speaker 4: like maybe once every two or three days, but no,
Speaker 4: we were literally hanging from a hundred meter waterfalls and
Speaker 4: the crawling across cliff faces. It's probably the most insane
Speaker 4: thing I've ever done in my whole entire life. But
Speaker 4: I guess all in all, when you complete the impossible,
Speaker 4: which is what we did, you feel pretty bloody good
Speaker 4: about yourself after it.
Speaker 1: Helenbe, I'd love to know how, like, how much a
Speaker 1: notice did you get from when you sign up to
Speaker 1: and you start filming, and did you just start training
Speaker 1: straight away or you're like that, it's probably not going
Speaker 1: to be that hard.
Speaker 4: Two weeks out was when it was like, okay, we're
Speaker 4: doing this. Honestly, I couldn't have been more unfit. I
Speaker 4: just finished like a round of IVF and I hadn't
Speaker 4: exercised properly for a good six months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Olympia, can you tell us a little bit around
Speaker 2: why you wanted to talk about that experience and also
Speaker 2: what it is that you've been going through and how
Speaker 2: you've been a voice for women who find themselves in
Speaker 2: a very similar fertility phase of life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously Instagram and things like that, it's
Speaker 4: it's always incredibly polished. And the reason why I kind
Speaker 4: of wanted to speak about it was because it's I
Speaker 4: just didn't understand why it was so taboo when no
Speaker 4: one was really talking about it with so many women
Speaker 4: are going through the same thing and so many people
Speaker 4: are having the same struggles as I am, and I
Speaker 4: just wanted to be a platform where people can, you know,
Speaker 4: feel heard and seen and and just somewhere to vent
Speaker 4: really for.
Speaker 1: Those that are listening. And you have spoken about it
Speaker 1: a lot, but you did miscarry twins not that long ago,
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 4: On my sixth miscarriage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so sorry, but it's so amazing that you're
Speaker 1: talking about it, because I'm sure you already know, but
Speaker 1: you are helping so many women by voicing this.
Speaker 2: That's so hard.
Speaker 3: Well, I found like, and there was in the very beginning,
Speaker 3: there's such I don't know what, it's like, a shame.
Speaker 3: It's like you felt shame to say, oh, I've miscarried,
Speaker 3: or because everyone's reaction to it is so extreme and you're.
Speaker 4: Like, Okay, you're making it worse for me, but I'm
Speaker 4: already dealing with it, and you're kind of pity doesn't help.
Speaker 4: But if we just like, you know, we obviously grieve
Speaker 4: on our own and with the people that are close
Speaker 4: to us, but if we kind of just like I
Speaker 4: just want it to be more open and talked about,
Speaker 4: so there isn't this oh god, you know, these poor
Speaker 4: poor people.
Speaker 2: I honestly also think that the feelings don't necessarily come
Speaker 2: just from pity. I think when you tell that story
Speaker 2: and you say that you've had miscarriages, so many women
Speaker 2: whose instant feeling is like, oh my god, I'm so
Speaker 2: sorry is because they've been there themselves, and they've also
Speaker 2: had a carriage and like and I, you know what,
Speaker 2: We've spoken about it quite a bit on the pickup
Speaker 2: and also across life on cart like I myself have
Speaker 2: had multiple miscarriages, and when I hear what another woman
Speaker 2: has experienced, my very first thought is like, I hate
Speaker 2: that you went through that and you're going through it.
Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't come from pity it it just
Speaker 2: comes from this like solidarity of like, I know the
Speaker 2: shit you're in right now, and it's horrible.
Speaker 4: I've been there. It hurts, It hurts, it really hurts.
Speaker 4: It sucks. But I guess it's I kind of meant
Speaker 4: more people that haven't gone through it, and it's not
Speaker 4: really talked about, so people don't know how to react
Speaker 4: and people don't kind of like I said, I don't
Speaker 4: really know what the right thing today is. But you're right,
Speaker 4: it's just like, oh my god, I'm Jesus, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm here for you if you need me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Olimpia. We hope that you win the money, and
Speaker 2: honestly so grateful that you continue to talk about these
Speaker 2: things because it's a voice for women who don't feel
Speaker 2: as though they're at a point where they can yet
Speaker 2: and it really makes people feel less alone in such
Speaker 2: a really horrible thing to go through. And the best
Speaker 2: of luck with the IVF journey because I know it's
Speaker 2: a very long and tumultuous journey. So we're going to
Speaker 2: be thank you.