MINI: Amanda Keller
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As Christian is about to enter a new phase of his life as an empty nester, he sits down with his good friend Amanda Keller to talk about life as a parent and her new show The Role Of A Lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | Got anything good? |
| 0:02.6 | Hi, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | Hey, this is Christian. This is a podcast special. It's our long form, unedited chat with the one and only Amanda Keller. I adore Amanda. I think she's brilliant. I've been a fan for years. |
| 0:21.5 | Earlier in my radio career, I had a crazy Australian boss, and he used to give me tapes of an old |
| 0:26.2 | breakfast show he used to do with a brilliant man called Andrew Denton. So when I moved here seven years |
| 0:31.5 | ago, it was a great joy to get to know Amanda. And if you've ever heard my podcast that I did |
| 0:36.4 | two seasons of, the stuff of legends |
| 0:39.0 | Amanda's episode is the one that gets the most reaction so it's a deep joy to share this with you |
| 0:45.3 | this is the unentered version of my chat with Amanda Keller and we're talking about being parents |
| 0:49.4 | she's involved in this billion new TV show called the role of a lifetime which you can enjoy |
| 0:53.9 | every Tuesday night on ABC which you can enjoy every |
| 0:54.2 | Tuesday night on ABC, and you can watch it whenever you want on Eye View as well. It's called |
| 1:00.0 | The Roll of a Lifetime. And as you listen to this, you've got any questions about being parents |
| 1:05.3 | or anything. Send me an email. I love talking about this stuff. It's a deep joy of mine being a dad and it's a lot to try and work out how to do it the best you can for your kids. |
| 1:14.2 | So if you've got any questions, email me, Christian at Christianoconnell.com.com. But right now, let's go to the great talk to. I love her work. I think she's brilliant. |
| 1:28.1 | The last time we spoke, she made me cry. It was about Perrington. I think there'll be tears again. |
| 1:34.2 | But welcome back to the show, Amanda Keller. |
| 1:37.3 | Christian O'Connell. I've got my waterproof mascara and I'm ready to go. |
| 1:41.7 | Great, because the last time we spoke on the subject of kids, |
| 1:46.5 | I was getting ready to drop off my eldest daughter at university. So get a load of this |
| 1:51.6 | this Sunday, a couple days' time. Youngest daughter, two years on, will be dropped off at |
| 1:57.0 | university. Then my wife and I will have no kids at home. So for a conversation about Role of a Lifetime, the new show on ABC, which started this |
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