Cath flew one-way across the country to meet a man she had already married in her head, and he cried instead of consummating. Bruna discovered she had been paying someones phone bill for two and a half years, to the tune of five grand. Mary's mum stormed a bank teller into a discount and came back with the hair to prove it. And Cath slid into a 24-year-old's DMs, purely, she swears, for the history content. Plus: the skin check Bruna avoided for years, the mentoring session that ended one woman's acting dreams, and the Unleasher wondering if 40 is too old to start again.

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In your ears today: Bruna Papandrea, Mary Coustas and Cath Mahoney.

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Grace went in for a friendly hello hug and came out with a handful she didn't ask for. Ginni got pulled up by immigration over a joke about cathedrals and thought her holiday was over. Grace also wants to outsource half her husband and most of her son, starting with his ears. And Cath got the best test results of her life and somehow felt worse than ever.

Plus: the party guest who needed an ambulance, the neighbours whose sex life runs like clockwork, and the Unleasher who paid nearly a thousand dollars to be ghosted by a dating agency.

And a HUGE thank you to everyone who attended The Spring Fling AKA Cath's formal. We share a little BTS audio as to what went down on the night.

In your ears today: Mary Coustas, Grace Lam, Ginni Mansberg and Cath Mahoney.

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Author and skincare founder Zoë Foster Blake joins this week’s Unleashed and she’s bringing her new book, Group Chat, to the couch.

Mary hired a nude dancer for a hen’s night, only for one very religious relative to become an extremely enthusiastic audience member. Bruna kept a cast fed, entertained and sane through COVID quarantine, right down to a request for a pet goanna. And Cath’s mum gave her one sentence when she was five that she’s lived by ever since.

Plus, Zoë shares the travel rule she swears by, there's a girls trip thrown into chaos by one unexpected guest, and a group chat member who is about to get called out.

It’s classic Unleashed full of life "advice" and the stories you can only tell your group chat.

In your ears today: Mary Coustas, Bruna Papandrea, Cath Mahoney and guest Zoë Foster-Blake.

You can buy Zoe's book Group Chat here.

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Executive Producer Grace Rouvray
Senior Producer and Audio Editor Tina Matolov
Social Media Producer Annaliese Todd

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