Married at First Sight (MAFS) star Ella Ding has launched a new podcast, The Ella Era — her second venture into the podcasting world following the success of Sit With Us, which she originally co-hosted with Domenica Calarco.
She is hosting The Ella Era alone, an opportunity she had longed for for years.
“It’s something that I’ve dreamt of since COVID. I always wanted my own podcast,” she told Chattr.
Ella regularly shares her journey with spirituality on Instagram and has heavily documented her experience visiting a healer in Bali. She told Chattr that her podcast will focus on health and wellness.
“It’s nothing like any other project I’ve ever worked on before or had before. It really is everything that I’m passionate about, everything I preach on my socials around health, wellness and success as well, wanting to learn how to be better.
“So it really will be focused on conversations around health and wellness, but also a big part of The Ella Era is going to be interviewing self made entrepreneurs that are successful and as well, sharing their ways on how they got there, their failures as well.
“Honestly, it’s just like everything that I love and learn about on a day-to-day basis, but bringing it to a platform so others can learn from it, too.”
How The Ella Era will be different from Sit With Us
Ella’s touched on how Sit With Us focused a lot on reality TV and her and Domenica’s personal lives, and said that while she still wants to open up about her life in The Ella Era, the podcast will take a different route in general.
“Sit With Us was very much reality TV, like pop culture, you know, a bit gossipy. It definitely will be completely different to that podcast.
“I think for Sit with Us, we shared a lot of our lives on that platform, which I still will continue to share, because I think that’s so important. Being in the public eye, it’s important to share a lot to make your listeners feel like they’re not alone, and that we aren’t that different.”
Sit With Us quickly gained a massive following, but was abruptly pulled after Ella and Dom faced backlash over an interview with MAFS‘ Jack Dunkley and Tori Adams where they talked about comments Jack had made about Lauren Dunn at a MAFS Dinner Party. Both women wanted to handle the pushback differently, which led to the cancellation of the podcast and a friendship falling out, and they are are no longer on speaking terms.
While Ella didn’t want to focus on the fallout, she said she’ll take lessons from her first pod and implement them into The Ella Era.
“I think with any business venture you do tend to learn lessons along the way,” she said.
Will Ella’s pregnancy be a main part of Ella’s Era?
Ella recently announced that she’s expecting a baby with her husband Guy Palermo, who was the first guest on the pod.
While Ella and Guy discussed her pregnancy in episode one, she told Chattr that she’d started forming the podcast before she’d found out she was pregnant, and it won’t specifically be a podcast about pregnancy.
“The podcast and the pregnancy are very much like two separate journeys,” Ella said.
“I think naturally that will come with it, you know, just natural, organic check-ins with how the pregnancy is going.
“I would definitely love to get on maybe a with a midwife or even my Doula because, before falling pregnant for myself, like, I’ve never really gone out of my way to teach myself anything about it. So there’s a lot that I’m learning that’s like, whoa. It’s quite overwhelming.
“I think being a young woman and going through this phase of life, like there’s so much information out there, especially on the Instagrams and the TikToks, it’s so easy to get caught in this rabbit hole. So I think it could be really cool to kind of put that stuff aside and actually get a specialist on in that specific area.
The Ella Era is available to stream on Spotify.
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