How To Turn Your Mental Health Struggles Into Strengths & Trust Yourself with Cartia Mallan

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Australian-born creator, actress, and entrepreneur Cartia Mallan joins the pod for a vulnerable and reflective convo about anxiety, identity, content creation, grief, and growing up online. They dive into boundary setting with friends, social media burnout, staying true to yourself in a trend-obsessed world, and how to rebuild self-trust when you’ve been over-giving. Cartia also opens up about navigating grief after the loss of her father and the complex emotions that come with it. This ep is core Real Pod: healing, relatable, and packed with perspective shifts you didn’t know you needed.

Connect with Cartia:

Instagram: @cartiamallan

YouTube: Cartia Mallan

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.2	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.7	Hello, hello. Welcome to RealPod. It's my birthday today. How crazy is that? I feel like it's what, well, every year, the day of your birthday changes. So it's every once in a while that the real pod will come out on my birthday. I'm of course recording this a little bit before my birthday. So I'm pretending that is my birthday and how I'll feel. But as far as what I'm doing today, I am doing nothing. That is my dream
1:13.4	birthday because I just came off of Aubrey's Bachelorette, which I planned. So I am definitely
1:20.1	recovering. I'm exhausted, assuming it was the best weekend ever. And then this coming weekend,
1:25.9	I am going on another Bachelorette for my friend
1:27.7	Sophie. So sandwiched in between two bacheloretts for two of my favorite friends that I love so
1:34.3	much, but I'm taking it easy. And honestly, I think it's the best type of birthday to just like do nothing,
1:39.4	be chill and have the date of yourself. So I'm going to be poolside, have a family dinner, maybe see a few of
1:46.0	my besties, but not planning anything and not doing anything major, just relaxing. And I'm also
1:52.4	making Max join me for lunch, take a little break from his worky to come have lunch with me.
1:57.3	So that's my day to day. Thank you for the birthday wishes and the love. You guys are the best.
2:03.2	Today I'm bringing you an episode of RealPod that I love. This feels like Real Podcore.
2:08.5	It's just like yapping about anxiety, mental health, realizing things, growing, celebrating our
2:16.8	growth. It's just such a well-rounded episode,
2:18.8	and I love our guest so much. Her name is Katia Milan. She's from Australia, but she's London-based.
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