Do you say yes when you mean no? That is not kindness, it is fear.

Krissy on the signs you are a people pleaser, why it comes from fear, and the response nobody warns you about. Everyone knows fight and flight... the people-pleasing one is fawn.

One topic. One opinion. No filter. People pleasing in relationships, fawning over your kids, the friend who drains you, saying yes at work, and how to stop saying yes on the spot.

What you'll get:

Why saying yes can be fear, not kindness

How fawning shows up with partners and kids

The friend dynamic that quietly drains you

How to say no without the guilt

Chapters:

(00:00) The signs you're a people pleaser

(02:14) Putting your partner first

(06:35) Fight, flight, or fawn

(07:54) When you fawn over your kids

(09:28) Why I call people out

(12:49) The knife-and-fork lesson

(16:44) People-pleasing at work

(19:29) Stop saying yes on the spot

(22:31) What people-pleasing costs you

(30:37) Don't fight, flee, fear or fawn

Recognise yourself in this one? Krissy wants to hear it. DM the show on Instagram and tell her where you people please.

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This is one woman's opinion and lived experience, not professional or psychological advice.

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Did Michael Jackson get away with it? Krissy's unfiltered opinion on power, money and fame.

A table of twenty-somethings told Krissy he was great. Her book club calls him a monster. Same man, two verdicts.

One topic. One opinion. No filter. Why she believes fame and money bought decades of silence, how abusers groom the parents and not just the kids, and why a whole generation still refuses to believe it.

What you'll get:

Why young fans still defend him

How grooming targets parents too

What power and money really buy

The art vs the artist question

Chapters:

(00:00) The dinner table debate

(00:53) The Brisbane boy and a starstruck mum

(02:14) Grooming the kids and the parents

(04:10) The cheque that bought silence

(05:15) The O.J. parallel and the jury

(07:39) My opinion, and the acquittal

(09:53) Why victims stay silent

(10:34) The Jackson family and Neverland

(12:42) His legacy

Krissy wants YOUR take. DM the show on Instagram and tell her where you land.

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A note on this one. These are Krissy's personal opinions, not statements of fact. Michael Jackson was acquitted in 2005 and denied all allegations. This episode discusses child sexual abuse and may be distressing. If it brings something up for you, please reach out to someone you trust or a local support service.

MasterChef's Alvin Quah on lying, cheating and the betrayal that taught him what loyalty really costs.

Krissy and her friend Alvin Quah, the MasterChef fan favourite and former scientist, get into the one thing neither of them can forgive. A lie. He has been lied to in the worst way, and he has told the hardest lie there is about himself. This is where they agree, and the bit where they really do not.

What you'll get:

- How to tell a white lie from a real betrayal

- What years of being lied to teaches you about loyalty

- Why coming out can be the hardest lie to undo

- The Scorpio rule: forgive, never forget

Chapters:

(00:00) Meeting on The Traitors

(01:26) Malaysia and a laksa obsession

(04:51) The mum who taught herself to read

(06:25) Disowned, and a lost love

(09:49) Coming out at 29

(13:14) From the lab to MasterChef

(18:34) Are you a good liar?

(19:21) The betrayal that broke him

(22:34) No degrees of lying

(25:54) Traitors, Housewives, MasterChef

(27:58) White lies vs deception

(30:00) Rapid fire: who lies more?

(34:06) No room for surface friends

(37:21) How marriage changed loyalty

(39:31) The laksa promise

Alvin Quah: MasterChef Australia fan favourite (2010 and 2022), former medical scientist, and a proud home cook writing his first cookbook.

Instagram: @alvinquah_ (https://www.instagram.com/alvinquah_)

Website: alvinquah.com.au (https://alvinquah.com.au)

Where is your line between a white lie and a betrayal? DM the show on Instagram... Krissy wants the ones that still sting!!

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Listen:

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1TIH5sHckXXmnh8qjMb43S

This is a candid chat between friends about relationships, sexuality and trust. It is for entertainment, not advice.

Produced by Dreamers Media

www.dreamersmedia.co