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Disability parenting, told close to the bone.
Too Peas In A Podcast follows Mandy Hose and Kate Mulholland through funny, tender, often blunt conversations with parents and carers. Recent episodes move from zoo accessibility and support workers to adult independence, rare conditions, Special Olympics, and the emotional admin of family life.
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Too Peas In A Podcast is an intimate, plainspoken show about disability family life, community care, and the daily logistics that sit behind every public milestone. The tone is warm. The subject matter is not always easy. Mandy Hose and Kate Mulholland speak with parents, carers, and community guests in a way that feels familiar rather than formal, letting stories arrive through school updates, appointments, support-worker wins, birthday memories, medical routines, and sideline friendships. Recent episodes carry a strong parent-network feel. Phoebe from Zoos Victoria talks about accessible education programs, Victorian curriculum needs, specialist school visits, sensory maps, and social stories. Amanda discusses Bella, communication, speech and OT fatigue, and the role of trusted support workers in building confidence through ordinary social life. Alex talks about Harry, Hirschsprung’s-related routines, anxiety around events, camp planning, toilet access, and the emotional labour of anticipating what other people may never notice. Sue and Mia speak about moving out of home, independence, work, and the delicate shift from carer mode back toward a mother-daughter relationship. Kelly’s episode brings in Max, Ruby, Nori disease, blindness, hospital days, Vision Australia, and the overwhelming early stage of learning a new disability language while still parenting babies. The show is often brisk and funny. It is also unusually willing to name fatigue, disappointment, pride, privacy, and the oddness of systems that families have to master on the fly. Its best moments come when practical detail turns into recognition: the social story before camp, the friend who knows what happened at school, the support worker who becomes part of a young person’s voice in the world. It is not glossy advocacy copy. It is parent-to-parent reality with enough humour to keep the room breathable.
Made for: For parents, carers, and family members navigating disability, additional needs, school systems, support work, medical routines, and growing children into adulthood. It will also suit professionals who want a more human sense of what families manage outside appointments.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its lived-in intimacy: practical disability parenting detail sits beside laughter, grief, blunt honesty, and long-term friendship. It treats care work as ordinary life, not a case study.
Listen to Mandy and Kate laugh (a lot) and cry as they chat to each other and friends about parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mandy Hose and Kate Mulholland make the daily work, humor and changing relationships of disability parenting unusually visible.
Mandy Hose and Kate Mulholland turn disability and family life into candid conversation, moving easily between practical questions, emotional strain and laughter.
A school camp needs a discreet toilet plan; with Mandy and Kate, you'll hear what that takes.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at how Zoos Victoria helps schools plan more accessible visits for neurodivergent students.
Phoebe from Zoos Victoria frames a zoo visit as more than a day out, showing how Victorian schools can turn it into a planned learning experience.
A candid review of Bella's growing social world and the trusted support helping her build it.
Amanda, Bella's mum and an expert carer, anchors this single-episode review with a close, grounded look at Bella's communication, school life and growing social confidence.
A blunt, steady conversation about care, planning, and the strain behind everyday routines.
Kate and Alex, Harry's mum, have a conversation that stays close to the day-to-day realities of Hirschsprung's, including the anxiety that can gather around events, camps, and routines.
A calm look at loneliness, independence, and the quiet work of stepping back.
Kate's solo introduction frames a podcast centered on loneliness, with one conversation on Tuesdays and another with her psychologist partner on Thursdays. That split gives the topic two angles at once: her partner adds a clinical lens, while Kate keeps the tone conversational.
A blunt, tender look at early parenting, disability, and the work of keeping going.
Kelly's conversation with Kate follows family life under pressure: a son who is blind and has a disability, a pregnancy unfolding at the same time, a call on Max's first birthday, and support from Vision Australia and a close family who wanted to know everything.
A personal Special Olympics conversation centered on Chelsea Hagwitherton's council role, travel-family support, and family context.
The episode is strongest when Chelsea Hagwitherton speaks about representing Australia on the council, especially with the note that only the second athlete outside the US has held the role and that her final council commitment is due later this year in Chicago.
A loose, specific chat about journalism and the long road into radio.
Naz's take on journalism and radio has its strongest run when it traces the path from a childhood with radio on all day to the ABC cadetship. The plain details do the work: community radio at 15, about four years of unpaid work across radio, TV, print and magazines, and the old…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Kate hosts a summer series replay of an interview with Naz Campanella, the ABC's National Disability Affairs Reporter.
Hosts Mandy and Kate speak with athletes Harry Mezger and Chelsea Hagwitherton, and board member Anna Mezger, about their experiences at the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Berlin.
Phoebe says the zoo is trialling sensory bags at Melbourne and using QR codes on robotic dinosaurs for deaf visitors.
Carer Gateway gave Amanda a monitor, meal vouchers, and frozen meals so she could keep studying.
Kate opens with a promo for her new podcast Honestly I'm Lonely, then turns to Alex, a Malvern mum, disability worker, and Special Olympics volunteer.
Mia says her rare diagnosis, OCNDS, was only identified in 2016 and took 21 years of testing before she got it in 2018.
Kelly says her 15-year-old son Max was born blind with Norrie disease, a rare X-chromosome condition she says affects about 500 people worldwide and can also involve autism and hearing loss.
Mandy and Kate discuss parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs, sharing personal stories and interviewing experts.
Kate introduces her new podcast about loneliness and then transitions to a conversation about parenting multiples with disabilities.
Mandy and Kate discuss parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs, sharing personal stories and laughter.
Mandy and Kate discuss parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs, featuring interviews and personal stories.
Kate promotes her new podcast about loneliness and introduces an episode with an ADHD coach.
Mandy and Kate discuss parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs, sharing laughs and tears.
Kate promotes her new podcast about loneliness and introduces an episode featuring a chat with Chantelle, a writer and mum of two known as Fat Mum Slim.
Kate introduces her new podcast about loneliness and then transitions to a discussion with a guest about parenting multiples with disabilities.