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You've Gotta Start Somewhere
by Rachel Corbett
Rachel Corbett interviews well-known media personalities and celebrities to find out exactly what it takes to make it in show business.
Episodes
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Carrie Bickmore
Carrie Bickmore is one of the most well-known faces on Australian television. As the host of The Project she’s been delivering the news differently for ten years, she’s also host of Carrie & Tommy on the Hit Network and a mum of three kids. And this year she was awarded an Order of Australia…
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Derryn Hinch
Derryn Hinch is an Australian journalist whose career has spanned almost six decades. He’s recently made a return to the small screen as the host of Hinch on Sky News Australia after spending three years as a Senator in Canberra as leader of Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party. Derryn started his career...
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Dr Chris Brown
Dr Chris Brown is a veterinarian, television presenter and half the Australian female population's hall pass. He started out as a guest host on the super popular Harry's Practice after being discovered trying to pick up a girl in a pub. True story. He was attempting to impress her with tales of…
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Tim "Rosso" Ross
Tim Ross (aka Rosso) is an Australian comedian, radio host, design enthusiast and television presenter. Rosso is best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Merrick and Rosso with fellow comedian, Merrick Watts. Their partnership began after Merrick saw Rosso play in his comedy band Black...
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Natarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling is a journalist and newsreader with just about one of the most infectious laughs you’ll ever see on television. Ever since preschool Natarsha knew she wanted to be a journalist and worked her butt off to make sure she got into the career she was so passionate about. She started…
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Meshel Laurie
Meshel Laurie is a comedian, radio and television host and author. Meshel started out as a stand-up comedian in the 90s, treading the boards with a lot of the comedy stars of today including Dave Hughes, Rove McManus and Wil Anderson. Meshel’s first comedy show was Daisy Belles with Corinne Grant...
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Hamish Macdonald
Hamish Macdonald is an Australian journalist and host of The Sunday Project. He’s had an incredible career that’s seen him reporting from war zones, disasters and major world events. He’s also worked as a reporter for some of the biggest news organisations in the world including the UK’s Channel…
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Joe Hildebrand
Joe Hildebrand is an Australian journalist and host of the daytime television program, Studio 10. Joe started his career as a cadet journalist at the Australian Associated Press and worked his way up to Editor at Large at News Limited which he admits is basically a fancy way of saying he can…
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Chris Bath
Chris Bath is an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter. She’s currently the host of Evenings on ABC Radio Sydney and presenter of 10 News First Weekend on Network 10. Chris’ path to working as a journalist started when she was a waitress at a Sydney restaurant where she met Sydney...
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Lehmo
Lehmo is one of Australia's most well-known comedians and in this episode of You've Gotta Start Somewhere, Rachel Corbett sits down with him to find out how he went from a regular country kid with no dreams of being a comedian to one of Australia's most well-known media personalities. Discover…
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Season 2 Coming Soon
Season two of You've Gotta Start Somewhere is on the way and guests include Chris Bath, Meshel Laurie, Hamish McDonald and Lehmo. Catch up on all the episodes at youvegottastartsomewhere.com
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Shaun Micallef
Shaun Micallef is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter who worked in what would seem to be the world’s least funny field before getting into comedy - insurance law. After ten years of talking to his wife about his desire to perform she eventually told him to give it a...
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Amanda Keller
Amanda Keller is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter. She’s one of the hardest working people in media hosting WSFM’s breakfast radio show, Jonesy & Amanda, Channel 10’s The Living Room and Dancing with the Stars. Amanda started her career as a producer working on Simon...
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James Mathison
James Mathison is a television presenter who rose to fame as the host of Australian Idol. James’ very first television appearance was on Channel 10’s, The $20 Challenge but his career really started when he won a VJ search for Channel V on Foxtel. After working at Channel V with Osher Gunsberg…
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Shane Jacobson
Shane Jacobson is an Australian actor, writer, director and comedian. Shane became a household name after playing the role of Kenny Smyth, a portaloo plumber, in Kenny. A film he wrote with his brother Clayton. Shane was a performer from a young age, acting in amateur theatre shows. He tried his...
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Ross Greenwood
Ross Greenwood is the Nine Network’s business and finance editor and host of Money News on 2GB. Ross started his career in print journalism and decided to specialise in finance after noticing the finance guys seemed to take a lot of long lunches. Smart move. His first TV gig was as the money guy…
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Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight is a journalist, newsreader and host of The Today Show. Deborah was part of the “Mitchell Mafia” studying journalism at Charles Sturt University. After graduating she started working for 2GB in Wagga Wagga before moving to Mix 106.5 in Sydney and then the ABC. Deborah has reported…
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Gorgi Coghlan
Gorgi Goghlan is a journalist, singer and host of The Project. Gorgi grew up on a sheep farm in Warrnambool and started her career as a teacher at McKinnon Secondary College. While she loved teaching her students she also loved performing and on nights and weekends she would perform in her own...
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Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian journalist, newsreader and host of Seven News Sydney and The Latest: Seven News. Michael started his television career at the Golden West Television Network, Bunbury where he was posted to Kalgoorlie. After dipping his toe in regional reporting he moved to STW-9…
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Tommy Little
Tommy Little is a comedian, radio presenter and the funny guy on The Project. Tommy originally wanted to be an actor but realised pretty quickly he could get paid for being himself so moved on to comedy. He started his media career at Channel 31 as a writer and performer, eventually moving to…
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Marc Fennell
Marc Fennell is a podcaster, radio and television presenter, documentary maker, author and host of SBS Viceland’s The Feed. Basically, he’s a busy guy. Marc’s career began when he won an AFI Outstanding Young Film Critics Award in high school and not long after that he started as the film critic...
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Ben Fordham
Ben Fordham is an Australian journalist, sports reporter, radio presenter and regular on Today. Ben started his career as a work experience kid at 2UE. He worked his way up to a reporter and won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 1997 Thredbo landslide. He wasn’t even 21. In 1998 Ben moved…
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Mia Freedman
Mia Freedman is a journalist and co-founder of the Mamamia Women’s Network. Mia began her career as the work experience kid at Cleo Magazine and got her first paying job as the magazine’s Beauty Editor. She left Cleo after five years and in 1996 became the youngest editor of Cosmopolitan at the...
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Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is an Australian journalist, academic, lawyer, television and radio presenter. Basically he’s one hell of an overachiever. He’s best known as the host of The Project, but he also writes for the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and lectures at Monash University. Waleed started...
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Leigh Sales
Leigh Sales is host of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 730 as well as the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3. Since starting at the ABC in 1995 Leigh has held a number of prominent roles at the network including the co-host of Lateline and their Washington correspondent from 2001-2005. In…
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Peter Helliar
Peter Helliar is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, television and radio presenter. So there’s pretty much nothing in showbiz he can’t do. His first crack at high-profile television was as a part of the cast of Rove Live where he worked with people who’ve gone on to become...
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Sarah Harris
Sarah Harris is an Australian journalist and host of Studio 10. Sarah studied journalism at the Queensland University of Technology and got her first job at the Seven Network in Brisbane where she was filing reports for Seven News and Today Tonight. Over the years Sarah has worked as a reporter…
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Brendan "Jonesy" Jones
Brendan “Jonesy” Jones is a radio presenter and one half of WSFM’s incredibly successful breakfast radio show, Jonesy & Amanda with Amanda Keller. Brendan started his career at the community radio station 2BCR in Bankstown. In 1990 he got the night gig at 6KA in Karratha, Western Australia before...
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Ugly Phil
Ugly Phil O’Neill is a radio legend and for anyone over the age of 30, he’s probably best known for his time as host of the Hot30 Countdown with his then-wife, Jackie O. Phil’s story is one of focus and determination. He started his career in Western Australia where he applied for a radio gig...
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Lawrence Mooney
Lawrence Mooney is a comedian and host of Triple M Sydney’s breakfast show, Moonman in the Morning. Lawrence worked a number of different jobs, including as a customs officer, before getting into stand-up. Now he’s one of Australia’s most loved comedians. In 2018 Lawrence took Triple M Brisbane’s...
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Tim Gilbert
Tim Gilbert is an Australian television and radio presenter and host of The Business of Sport on Sky News Australia. Tim’s career began at Radio 2GM in Goulburn and he got his start in television as a sports reporter for the Nine Network back in 1996. Over the years he worked as a presenter on...
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Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur is an Australian television presenter and host of The Morning Show on Channel 7 with Kylie Gillies. Larry started his career as a copyboy for the Sydney Morning Herald before moving into television at the Seven Network where he became the youngest newsreader in the country. Larry is...
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Sylvia Jeffreys
Sylvia Jeffreys is an Australian journalist and newsreader. Sylvia began her career in media at the Nine Network in Brisbane as a script assistant while she was completing a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Queensland. In 2008 she began filing lifestyle stories on Queensland’s Extra...
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Peter Berner
Peter Berner is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter and artist. Peter started his career in the late 80s as a stand-up comic and was a regular guest on Hey Hey It’s Saturday. He made the move into television hosting with his own political satire show, BackBerner on the ABC and...
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Paul Murray
Paul Murray is the host of Paul Murray Live and Saturday Edition on Sky News Australia. Paul was ‘discovered’ hosting a Little Athletics carnival when he was still a teenager, which led to him hosting a national show on Triple J at the ripe old age of 14. He then moved to the NOVA Newsroom where…
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Sam Mac
Sam Mac is a radio and television presenter, prolific content creator, cat lover and the Sunrise weatherman. Sam Mac started his career in radio by winning a competition on SAFM which resulted in him getting a hosting gig with the station. Over the years Sam worked on a number of shows including...
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Merrick Watts
Merrick Watts is a comedian, television and radio presenter best known for his time as part of the comedy duo Merrick & Rosso. Merrick started his career as a solo stand-up before teaming up with Tim “Rosso” Ross after watching him perform in his comedy band, Black Rose. After deciding to work as…
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Wippa
Michael “Wippa” Wipfli is an Australian radio and television presenter who currently hosts the NOVA breakfast show Fitzy & Wippa with Ryan Fitzgerald. Wippa started his career as a builder but knew he wanted to do something in entertainment. So after completing a short radio course he sent his…
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Welcome to You've Gotta Start Somewhere
You've Gotta Start Somewhere is the podcast that's all about pulling the curtain back on the wizard of showbiz to reveal exactly what it takes to build a successful media career. Each week I'll be chatting with well-known personalities and celebrities about the lengths they went to, to get a foot...
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Rachel Corbett interviews well-known media personalities and celebrities to find out exactly what it takes to make it in show business.
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