👩‍🍳 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Julie Goodwin

Our good friend Julie Goodwin joins Jonesy & Amanda to talk about MasterChef, air fryers and mental health.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, she's the Queen of the kitchen and one of
our favorite guests. Julie Goodwin has been sharing her culinary
skills since she first appeared on Master Chef in two
thousand and nine. That's how long she's been in our lives.
She's on the road with her tour. Your time starts now,
It's called and Julie Goodwin?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Are you just start now?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
How are you hello? Hello? Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's always great to have you on and also part
of the Dancing with the Stars alumni. Oh yes, you've
been on it.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
A moment go by without mentioning that, do we?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Amanda's been on it. Amanda went on to host it,
I went on it went on to do nothing. But
you know we could swap notes about.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It if you could. Did you enjoy it, Julie?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
No, I really did. I really did. I've made like
a lifelong friend in my dance partner Andre. He's absolutely gorgeous,
and I learned some skills. I just didn't know I had.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
And will you use them again?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Never? No, as long as I live with you, I
did love it.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
With your stage show, Are you cooking on stage? What's
the give us the format? What happens?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
So I do do a bit of cooking. I do
a few recipes. The idea is there's on stage, there's
a kitchen, and there's also a little lounge area, and
it's meant to feel I guess as though. You know
when you have a dinner party and you invite people
over and they kind of hang by your kitchen bench,
sit at your bench while you finish off the dinner.
That's kind of it. It's cooking as a medium to

(01:38):
telling stories and having conversations. So we look at a
bit of nostalgic kind of Master Chef stuff on the
screens and revisit some of that and behind the scenes
and just talk about sort of life and the turns
that it can take and the surprising turns that it
can take, and how we find our way back from those.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
If we didn't go on Master Chef in two thousand
and nine, I mean, your life has been transformed. What
that shy, nervous, klutzy kind of woman we met. Who
would she be now if you hadn't gone on Mastership?
Where would she be now?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Man, That is a question and a half. I think
I would have stuck with my family business mix in it.
His business has been going twenty four years now for
a period of time. It would have helped him with that.
But I think I always would have gone into something creative.
I was prior to that.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I was a youth.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Worker, and I'm sort of heading back into the direction
of that sort of thing now. So yeah, I think
that probably i'd be somewhere in one of those arenas you.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Don't have discovered recently. And I've a bit late to
the party.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is this two minute noodles, the air fryer, How good
the airfriyer? How life begins?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Maybe joking like the air fright? And I kind of
sneered it. You did because Amanda she used to talk
about the Thermo mix and then it was like she
was in scientology. Anyone that came along, she was trying
to corrupt them about the Thermo mix. I've become like
that guy with the air fry we all have.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know, I never used an air frayer until I
went back on master Chef in season fourteen because I
was just like, oh, I don't do gadgets, you know,
just the real oven whatever. And we had an airfy challenge,
so I had to use one to do the challenge
and I used it under sweat. Oh my god, Oh
my god. Well now I'm buying one. And it's just

(03:26):
it's a game changer, And especially for families where like mine,
where sometimes you've got the whole bloody crowd there and
you've got a fire up a ninety centimeter wide. Sometimes
nobody's home, they're all off busy doing things, and you
just need a tiny little super hot conviction of and
to heat up your dinner like that, and it does
a job. So I'm with you, Jonesy, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
We're part of the air frar elite.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
We are big, are late comers to airfying class. Julie,
you're such a sunny person, but you've also been very
open about the struggles you've had with your own mental health.
Will you be talking about that on stage two? That's
that's something that I know has touched a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh yeah, look one hundred percent, Amanda. It's kind of
speaking about that openly. Those few years ago is actually
what led me to writing my autobiography. Your Time starts Now,
and that's what the show is for. It's lovely, and
we tell lots of lovely stories, and we have a
lot of laughs. Like it's not a heavy show, but
we absolutely My purpose in bringing this Too to the

(04:28):
road is to normalize this conversation and make it so
that people aren't ashamed to sort of come out and say,
you know what I'm struggling to and maybe there's a
few of those things I need to notice about my
own life or my own wellbeing and maybe make some changes,
because I don't want anyone to end up where I
ended up, you know, I'd like them to spot the
signs well and truly before that. And so that's what

(04:49):
I'm really hoping to achieve.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
And I look at you now. You look in a
great place. You look fantastic. You're doing great. You were
great when you filled on filled in for Amanda when
she went on this so called assignment with doctor Chris Brown.
In real assignment, it was like this TV show that
no one's seen. Have you heard of this TV show?
This Samanda is going to be on with doctor Chris Brown?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you just think I scarfed it up.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's fund and Center.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Thank you, Thank you, Julie.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
When did she get to you, Julie. For tickets and
tour information, head to Julie Goodwin dot com. She's touring,
you're touring, and you go and see this show. Julie,
it's always great to talk to you.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your time.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Thanks to love, Julie.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Thank you, Julie Goodwin, thank you,