Join author & host Linda Marigliano (triple j, Love Language) each week to explore modern relationships, mental health, family, career identity and cultural conversations by speaking with friends like Benny Blanco, Jessie Ware, Leslie Liao, Gabrielle Stone and Osher Gunsberg. Recorded as a unique documentary chat series, you’ll be immersed in full scenes with these personalities as you learn their tough love lessons on all the sh*t that counts.
What initially began as an audio documentary about one of the sh*ttest times of her life, has been embraced as a universally lauded diary that empowers its listeners through similarly felt experiences: tackle heartache in the face of distance and loss, manage the physical manifestation of stress, navigate loyalty and duty from afar, to the very question of a relationship standing the test of time. As she arms listeners with the tools to navigate rewarding risks and negotiate their boundaries, Linda arrives at her biggest reckoning in realising she’s a people pleaser, setting the scene for her critically acclaimed memoir. While at times it feels like she’s never left, Season 2 saw Linda grapple with the very essence of change and control through a string of emotional lessons to arrive at a place of peace and featured guests such as Jessie Ware, Benny Blanco, Anna Lunoe, Kumi Taguchi, Becky Lucas, Steph Clare Smith, Benjamin Law and many more. With Season 3 came the big announcement of her pregnancy, and throughout the season, moved through the triumphs, hardships, and relatable revelations from this new phase of her life that featured Genie Bouchard, Israa Nasir, Sophie Ansari, Osher Günsberg and more.
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Amelia & Linda co-founded Tough Love in 2020, which lead to now 3 seasons of the podcast, a critics choice book from Linda, and a new chapter into motherhood.
Praise for Linda Marigliano's Tough Love
Winner - Moment Of Raw Emotion
International Women's Podcast Awards 2023
Winner - Best Host
Radio Today Awards 2024
Gold, Best Lockdown Podcast
Australian Podcast Awards 2024
Silver, Best Parenting + Family Podcast
Signal International Podcast Awards 2024
“Linda has been garnering a huge amount of attention and establishing herself as a thoughtful figure who doesn't shy away from a bit of emotional vulnerability in the public eye”
Mamamia
“Linda Marigliano’s career would put most type A personalities on notice”
Broadsheet
“A look at her own life and personal ups and downs, while also dishing out sage advice - sometimes learned the hard way”
Marie Claire, Best Australian Podcasts
“Marigliano takes us through a profoundly open and honest look at her life from her long-distance relationship and the process of freezing her eggs when faced with uncertainty… a touching and relatable look at life”
Concrete Playground
“The questions at the heart of Tough Love go to what gives our lives meaning and what we value when our world becomes smaller”
Pedestrian TV
“Proudly vulnerable”
Sydney Morning Herald