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Alicia Banit & Dena Kaplan
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On screen frenemies to real life besties, so of course we started a podcast! Stay tuned for your weekly questionable life lessons from Dena Amy Kaplan and Alicia Banit. Class is in session!
Episodes
54
31 March 2026
The Emma “Memma” Watkins You Don’t Know: Life Behind The Wiggles Yellow Bow
dAlings!! We have the most incredible guest on today and we are still freaking out 💜💜💜 Dr Emma Watkins is here – yes, THE Emma Wiggle, now Emma Memma – and honestly this woman is everything. She flew in to chat with us about her journey from Yellow Wiggle to PhD, creating Emma Memma with her deaf co-performer Elvin, and bringing Auslan to kids everywhere.We go DEEP – how she became a Wiggle...
44 min
24 March 2026
Life lately: Bye Poo Era & Welcome Kinder Mum Friendship Era!
Poo era who?! Welcome to the kinder mum friendship era!!! 💜Alicia made a mum friend at drop off and squealed in her car about it – we're entering a new chapter darlings. She also MC'd her first wedding, and we need to chat about Crocs being poisonous???Dena thinks Alex might propose on their 9am date (gut feeling activated), retreats have been chaotic, she's got a new acting agent, and we end up...
50 min
17 March 2026
Harry Style's Album Flops! Was Kyle & Jackie O a Publicity Stunt?
DAlings! Okay so we're doing something different today 💅✨ There's so much going on in pop culture right now and we have OPINIONS!! Dena's heartbroken over Harry Styles' new album (Aperture is incredible but the rest???), Alicia's obsessed with Wuthering Heights and Jacob Elordi in that corset scene, we're both fuming at Timothée Chalamet for calling ballet a "dying art" (as former dancers we...
33 min
15 March 2026
Secrets We've Never Told You | Dance Academy Rewatch Season 1 Episode 2
We're baaaack with another rewatch and this time it's Episode 2 baby!!! 🎬✨You guys demanded we do every single episode so here we are and honestly we're loving it. We chat about that little kangaroo joey who deserves an award 🦘, how STUNNING Sydney looks in those drone shots, Abigail's villain era kicking off, and the iconic pointe shoe to the face moment 🩰💥. Alicia spills on actually jumping...
23 min
10 March 2026
Life Lately: Baby Number Two!? and Daycare Drama
We're back and we're BACK period 💅✨Literally – Dena's period came back after a whole year so baby number two is ON!!! We're manifesting getting pregnant at the same time because how good would that be?!We also need to talk about cliquey kinder mums (Alicia's been fully ignored at drop off like multiple times??), Dena went full mama bear when a daycare teacher called Maya "stubborn" on her first...
45 min
03 March 2026
Life Lately: We Answer EVERYTHING
It's Life Lately time besties!!! 💜💜We're doing an Ask Us Anything and you guys did NOT hold back with the questions! We're talking tattoos, piercings, love languages, Home and Away auditions, and yes – we finally answer all your Dance Academy questions 😂Big moment: Dena made the Dean's Honour Roll and we're still screaming about it!!! We also have a lot of thoughts on feeling lost in your 20s...
28 min
24 February 2026
Life lately: Gut and Mental Health Magic with Dr Verena
Okay besties we are SO excited for this one!!! 💜💜💜Dr Verena Raschke-Cheema flew all the way from Sydney to sit with us and honestly, this woman changed Dena's life (Like actually changed it). She helped her through the darkest time – addiction recovery, gut health chaos, mental health stuff, everything.Dr. Verena's a nutritional scientist, a PhD, a kinesiologist which means she can literally...
42 min
17 February 2026
Life Lately: All The AACTA Awards/Red Carpet Tea ☕
Dalings!! we have so much to catch you up on!!! 💜The Gold Coast was absolutely everything, Isla's first theme park holiday (she's a little adrenaline junkie omg), AACTA red carpet glam, pool days at The Star feeling like actual queens, and our panel where we got to hug so many of you!!! Our Mexican fans are UNREAL 🇲🇽🥹We also had some big feelings this week. We're opening up about body image,...
1 h 28 min
10 February 2026
Life lately: Attachment Theory, EMDR & A Qualified Life Coach with Janelle Corlass-Brown
It's a big one today besties! 💜 We kick things off with the usual chaos – Alicia survived a 44-degree night with no power (thank god for Makita fans), Dena wandered around the city for 40 MINUTES looking for her car, and we're getting so excited for the AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast!!!Then, we're joined by our beautiful friend Janelle Corlass-Brown! She's a clinical psychologist who we've known...
1 h 20 min
03 February 2026
Life Lately: 37, C-Sections & The 2 AM Cleaning Club with Lucy Olympia Young
It’s a birthday catch-up with your daling besties and honestly, Dena is a whole new woman! 🎉🎉 She’s officially 37 and apparently, that means staying up until 2 AM vibing to her new Olivia Dean vinyl (yes, we are obsessed). Alicia spills the tea on her AACTA Awards dress disaster—a gorgeous, sparkly, sexy couture piece but... didn’t fit, leaving her in a last-minute styling scramble.Then, we’re...
1 h 9 min