💪 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Grace Tame

The incredible Grace Tame joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of her 'Lightening the Load' tour.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Grace tame what a woman an advocate, an artist, to
comed in, an ultra marathon runner, an author and havevery
casual the twenty twenty one Australian of the Year. She's
about to hit the road with a new tour, Lightning
the Load with Grace Tamee. But before she does all
of that, she's joining us right here, right now. Hello, Grace,
good morning, Lightning the Load. Tell me what it means?

(00:24):
What are people going to have and feel and see? Well,
it was a.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Pretty hefty load that was in twenty twenty one out
of absolutely nowhere. Well, the idea behind the tour is
to really look back on the last three and a
half years and what that really bizarre jarring experience was
to be thrust out of obscurity and onto a massive

(00:51):
platform to talk about a really fraught subject matter without
any kind of run up and with very little guidebook.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Because you're right, we expected you to be able to
speak at the drop of a hat about the most
traumatic thing that's ever happened to you in your life
and just go yes, So tell us about that, Grace,
and this next interview ten minutes later, tell us about that.
Have you come out of this still as yourself or
if you had to put some sort of hard carapace
in place.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, it's interesting. I think that we're always evolving as individuals,
and that certainly had a huge impact on me, and
I think I'm still unpacking that in many ways. You know,
it's interesting considering that the human brain doesn't really stop
developing until about age twenty five. And I stepped onto
that stage to accept that award one month after my

(01:43):
twenty sixth birthday, And I was there to accept the
award for my advocacy around child sexual abuse and my
own lived experience of that. And I had done a
lot of work unpacking it and understanding it and obviously

(02:03):
speaking publicly about it. But you can only do so
much of that with the neural architecture, with the toolkit
that you have, and you sort of have to wait
until you have a certain amount of time and distance
to reflect on some of those things. And so it
wasn't until I was under this massive spotlight, with all

(02:26):
of these eyes looking at me and all this media scrutiny,
that I was actually able to that I had the brain,
the adult brain, to do a lot of that.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well as wisdom. You know, with age comes wisdom. Is
there anything that you look back on in the last
three few years do you say, do you think, oh, well,
I could have done that better? Because there was a
moment there where you were just in the news for
everything from the Side Eye to Scoma to Brittney Higgins.
It was just like you were everywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Oh. Look, there were certainly mistakes that I made along
the way, and there will be many more mistakes that
I made. That's inherent in the experience of being a
human being, I think. But yeah, certainly as a twenty
six year old kid, definitely there were mistakes that I made.
I mean, at times, you know, I think that I
was well and probably understandably, quite reactive to that political

(03:17):
machine because you know, I was in survival mode. That's
that's how you you have to get through something like that.
You know, the volume and the speed of the requests
and all of the commitments that we were having to
contend with was just it was unnatural at times. And

(03:42):
it's thankfully quiet and down a bit, but you know,
it was it was a steep learning curve.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh I bet, what's the strangest thing you've seen like
in your life in the media. What's the strangest thing
that you've seen, like fans of yours, because you've got
a lot of fans.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
There is there is a person out in the wilderness.
I don't know if they were in the wilderness, actually,
but there is a person out there who has my
face tattooed on their ass.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
They don't have your ass tattooed on their face. You're
sure you got around the right way.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
I have got that. I've seen photographic evidence on it.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
And it is it a good likeness.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's the it's the it's the image of my face
giving the side eye.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And with this person saying, look, how much of a
supporter of yours I am?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I think? I think so to put someone's face on
your ass?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
And which way is the side? Which way is the
side eye directed?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Is I looking at the bump?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Is it looking to the middle, or is it looking
off to the the actual side.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'd have to burrow into my I was just taken
back by the old.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Did you see it in the flesh or was it
a photograph you saw?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
I have not seen it in the flesh. I have
not seen my own face on someone's cheek in the flesh.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yet, oh, Grace, year is still young. I think you've
done extraordinary things in your short twenty six years.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this happened twenty six was Australia.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, I know, this was three years ago.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh my god, it was three years ago.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Hang on, that must make me fifty.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
You have to updo your tat.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Grace. It's just so nice to meet you over zoom.
Thank you for joining us. You can get tickets to
Lightening the Load with Grace Tame at Faine dot com
dot a U backslash Grace Tame Grace. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Thanks for having me on. It's great to chat.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
No worries,