Nom, nom, nomination.

Oct 29

I’ve never been a winner. I feel like a winner at life, all the time actually, I’m lucky, so very very lucky in lots of ways so that’s not what I mean.

The last trophy I won was ‘most improved - Under 14s netball’ 1992.

I’ve never been one of those people with a trophy cabinet full of awards, medals and certificates. (Although I still feel robbed of the Geography prize in Yr 12 after getting straight A+, but I’ve let that one go. No really I have.)

But there are those people aren’t there? And not being one of them, well makes me not so concerned about winning and losing. (Awards anyway, auditions are another thing!)

So when our podcast ‘The Wellness Collective’ was nominated for an Australian Podcast Award last year in the ‘Health and Wellness’ category, Nat Kringoudis, my co-host and I were bloody thrilled!

Getting into the top 5 podcasts in the country was enough for us, we were so excited, when we entered we truly didn’t know what to expect!

We went to the awards in Sydney, got glam, wore false eye lashes and had photos taken on the red carpet (or equivalent, podcasts are still new, it wasn’t quite the logies yet!)

And…..

we didn’t win.

But like I said, we had already won by being there.

So when the awards came around this year, once again we entered and…. have been nominated again in the ‘Entertainment’ category!

Which I think is actually is amazing. The competition was stronger this year, the people we are nominated with are amazing, and it feels great to be given some recognition of the work we have put in to making over 120 episodes of this podcast, with different topics and guests every week, bring a bit of fun and real life to topics that are useful to know. Through the Melbourne lockdown, the fortnightly record of our podcast gave us some normality and hopefully did the same for our community of listeners.

2020 has been a lot to deal with. And I hope our little podcast that could, that started with a hundred or so listeners in 2016 and has grown to over 16000 a month now, provides a weekly bit of light and fun to lives around Australia.

Now let’s see if I can get a trophy that doesn’t date back to the 90s!

Oh and can I ask a favour? You can vote for us for a people’s choice award too. You have until November 18 to do so. And I’ll be your best friend.

Here’s the link:

https://australianpodcastawards.com/vote

Just type in ‘wellness collective’

and BOOM!

Thanks for your support. :)