Tubie Talks

Haley Stewart: A million-plus followers and a whole lot of hope

Haley Stewart was a teenager, tube-fed and living in a tiny town in Montana when her grandma convinced her to post a video. It changed everything. In the final episode o

Lily-Rose Burnell: Meeting Billie Eilish between ICU stays

Lily-Rose "Rosie" Burnell has been septic 17 times and in ICU six times – and she's not afraid to talk about what that's done to her mental health. In this epi

Freya Steindl: TPN, Taylor Swift and travelling the world

Freya Steindl has been on TPN since she was a baby – and it hasn't stopped her running half marathons, rock climbing or road-tripping across the US-Canada border for

Lilly Downs: Cheerios and coming off tubes

Missed prom, met her people online, and came off every tube she had. In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with 21-year-old Lilly Downs to talk life

Amelia Tang: Let's talk body image

Misbehaving feeding tubes, changing bodies and moving cities to breathe. In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with disability advocate Amelia Tang

Coady Gillis: Self-advocating queen

Besties, feeding tubes, hospital drama and a bit of rule-breaking. In the first episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with her friend Coady Gillis to talk f

Tubie Talks is back. And Steph Kelly has the mic 🎙️

Steph Kelly is your host for season two of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up. She's about to hook you up with a cast of people who, like her, are living life – working, playing

The tube-feeding TikTok star: Steph's story

She's got a G-tube, J-tube, TPN and half a million social media followers. Meet Steph Kelly,  a Sydney nurse who's built a colossal community by candidly sharin

Going (and growing) with the flow: Riley's story

This is a story about a girl called Riley. One of four sisters who, along with mum, Grecian, and dad, Justin, enjoys drawing, outdoor adventures and ice-cream treats in h

Coffee, cake and crafting: Kym's story

She blends up cheese platters with wine, pours espressos down her feeding-tube and calls Spotlight "the mothership".  Meet Kym Adams, a Brisbane local with a wicked sense

It takes a tubie village: Luke’s story

Let’s visit Sydney’s sunny suburb of Gymea and spend a day with a charming almost-three-year-old and his family, shall we? Luke Joseph has been tube-feeding since the day

He did tube-feeding his way: Pedro’s story

He’s got the body of '80s-era Arnold Schwarzenegger, making him the polar opposite of what most people expect when they think of a tube-feeder. Meet Pedro Relvas, a

How we found our happy (bl)ending: Arlo’s story

Welcome to Tubie Talks, a podcast series celebrating the lives of people and families who tube-feed. I’m your host, author, journalist and tube-feeding parent, Melanie Di

Tubie Talks Trailer

Welcome to Tubie Talks, a podcast series celebrating the lives of people and families who tube-feed.  Listen in as author, journalist and tube-feeding parent Melanie Dimm