Founder, Editor and publisher of mamamia.com.au
Mia Freedman is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the Mamamia Women’s Media Company in Australia.
Mamamia has an audience of more than six and a half million women every month and is also the largest women’s podcast network in the world, with over 173 million listens and 46 different shows. She is also the founder of Lady Startup. An education-based community supporting female-founded small businesses, helping them launch and grow through online courses, podcasts, and social media.
Mamamia’s core purpose as a business is to make the world a better place for women and girls. Before founding Mamamia as a blog in her lounge room in 2007 and becoming one of Australia’s best-known digital entrepreneurs, Mia was a magazine editor, national newspaper columnist, radio presenter, and TV host. She was named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Financial Review and is a former chair of the federal government’s Body Image Advisory Board.
Mia is has recently also founded a new platform called Lady Startup to help educate and promote businesses owned by women and it’s her mission to help 20,000 women launch their own businesses by 2020.
She is an ambassador for Rize Up, a charity supporting women and children fleeing domestic violence, and Share The Dignity, which supports women and girls facing poverty and homelessness. Mia is the author of four books including the best-selling Work, Strife, Balance and she hosts two award-winning podcasts, Mamamia Outloud and No Filter, Australia’s leading interview podcast.
Mia also appears on TV regularly as a panellist on The Project and hosts podcasts and video series for the Mamamia Women's Network.