Claudia Callisto - The Good Italian Girl and friends

May 17 2024
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Based her best selling book "The Good Italian Girl" Claudia Callisto invites her fellow ethnic friends to join her for an Italian coffee catch up and share stories about life growing up with their immigrant parents. We reflect on both the highs and lows of our cultural experience and how it has shaped us as the strong and resilient ethnic women we are today and how it has influenced our own parenting style and life..

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The Barefoot Woman

May 17 2024 54 mins  
Today on the Good Italian Girl and Friends podcast we meet another Australian – Italian first generation daughter from Adelaide named Maria who also runs a side hustle called The Barefoot Woman… yes folks she loves going barefoot at home to help her feel grounded.Her business services however is something totally different in that she provides Malocchio removal, Tarot card read

The Australian – Italian Travel Podcast Series – Planning your overseas trip with your Australian Children to visit the Italian relatives and tour Europe: Part 2

Sep 27 2023 68 mins  
Join me, your host Claudia Callisto, as I sit down with my good friends Luisa and Laura for an intimate chat about our unique travel experiences as first-generation Australian-Italians. We explore the fascinating journey of travelling overseas to visit Italian relatives and discuss if it's a rite of passage for Australian-Italian children. We share our funny and challenging moments

The Australian – Italian Travel Podcast Series - Visiting the Italian relatives with your Australian born children: Part 1

Sep 11 2023 80 mins  
The Australian – Italian Travel Podcast Series - Visiting Italian relatives with your Australian-born children This new podcast series is about our family generation going travelling to Europe/ Italy and touring the amazing sites and visiting the Italian relatives and returning to your parent’s paese. Why do you think we still have this pull back to Italy to visit family with o

Celebrate The Inner "Giussa": with International Giussa Day with Claudia Callisto

May 20 2023 16 mins  
Welcome to a new episode of The Good Italian Girl and Friends Podcast with Claudia, Callisto who is bringing to Adelaide International Giussa Day on the 2nd of June 2023.This episode focuses on Claudia's new concept and event, International Gisussa Day. Claudia views herself as a proud Giussa and International Giussa Day is an opportunity for her to share her culture and celebrate

Italian Glory Boxes of Love

May 17 2023 56 mins  
In this episode of the good Italian girl and friends, Claudia and her sister Laura talk about the upcoming event, Italian glory boxes of love.A unique exhibition curated by two Adelaidean Italian sisters displaying a collection of precious ‘glory box’ items that Italian migrant mothers prepared for their female children growing up in Australia. Each item will have its own uniqu

Bonus Episode: Radio interview with Stefano from Radio Italiana 531 Adelaide

May 11 2023 45 mins  
Stefano interviews Claudia Callisto, Writer and Performer, in English on the occasion of her new Cabaret show scheduled at the Fringe 2023 entitled "Italian Love is a Battlefield", taken from her bestseller "The Good Italian Girl".Brought to you by Shining Light

Bonus Episode: Radio interview with Mark Aiston from Radio Italia Uno 87.6FM

Feb 22 2023 47 mins  
On this bonus episode, Claudia Callisto, the bestselling author of the good Italian girl speaks to Mark Astion from Radio Italia Uno 87.6 FM, Adelaide about her fringe show growing up in an ethnic household, her book a new podcast series.Brought to you by Shining Light

Oldest sister chat: Laura and Claudia

Jan 17 2023 62 mins  
Claudia interviews her older sister Laura who played a big part in their childhood as the oldest daughter and her responsibility to assist our parents in looking after her younger siblings while they worked. Born in Belgium and immigrating to Australia with our parents at the age of 5 they discuss their family life together, their parent's dreams for them all, growing up in a famil

The Italian workplace girlfriend Anna, Mary and Claudia

Jan 17 2023 62 mins  
Claudia's Italian work girlfriends Anna and mary talk about Italian wedding traditions from the 1960s/1970s and how things have changed over the generations. Brought to you by Shining Light

The Comaras:- Secret Guests and Claudia.

Jan 17 2023 74 mins  
Another funny podcast with Claudia and her fellow Italian Adelaide girlfriends and school mums laughing and talking about the ethnic girlfriend connections and how their family lives have flourished spending time together as fellow Italian families and supporting each other. The conversation is a typical ethnic female conversation and gathering where everyone is talking at once, fi