Life Matters - Separate stories podcast

Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.

Life Matters - Separate stories podcast is a society podcast hosted by ABC Australia, with 250 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

ABC Australia hosts Life Matters - Separate stories podcast, a society show with 250 episodes published.

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  Trouble sleeping? It could mean less time in the workforce

  Aug 19, 202615 min

  Waking during the night, struggling to fall asleep, or finding yourself wide awake at 3am can become more common in midlife. You might accept it as part of getting older, but sleep problems in midlife are worth paying attention to. A Finnish study has found that people over 50 with severely disrupted sleep had a shorter working life expectancy. So, what gets in the way of a good night's sleep as we age? And what can we do about it?

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  What would be on your wishlist for a renters' utopia?

  Aug 19, 202624 min

  Home ownership remains out of reach for a huge swathe of Australians, which means in turn, more people are renting long-term. So what could we do to make life as a renter a bit closer to the great Australian dream? The Australian Council of Trade Unions has taken its wishlist to the government, it's proposing increased investment in public housing but also some stronger rights for tenants, including minimum two-year lease terms. They say these measures would go a long way to giving tenants a sense of stability and the capacity to plan for their future.

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  Social Studies: Why we love a whinge

  Aug 19, 20269 min

  Love it or hate it, the reality is we all whinge at some point in our lives. It is a part of human behaviour and can be a way to connect with others and build a sense of shared commonality and experience. But when does whinging go too far?

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  Celebrating 100 years of weekends (and why they might be disappearing)

  Aug 18, 202623 min

  In 1926, the car industrialist Henry Ford announced his factories would be moving to a five-day working week with two consecutive days off for workers. It marked the birth of the weekend as we know it (though in Australia the five-day working week wasn't legislated until 1947). Weekends have been a cornerstone of our lives, carving out time to relax, play and be with our loved ones. But is the pressure and pace of modern life eroding our precious weekends?

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  Why you might feel lost when cancer treatment ends

  Aug 17, 202622 min

  When Susan Delcour finished chemotherapy for breast cancer a few weeks ago, she expected to feel relieved. But she also felt unexpectedly lost without the routine of appointments and regular check-ins with her medical team. "No-one really tells you about the anxiety of finishing chemo," she wrote on social media — and quickly discovered there were many other cancer survivors who felt the same. Nearly 1.7 million Australians are now living with, or beyond, cancer, and that number is expected to grow to more than 2.6 million by 2050, according to a new report from The Daffodil Centre. So how can we better support people as they adjust to life after treatment?

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