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The Milkshakes for Marleigh Podcast

The Survival Stories

of blood product recipients

Across three seasons, The Milkshakes for Marleigh Podcast has told the stories of over 70 people who have needed blood (and breastmilk in Season One). This Australian-made, internationally acclaimed, award-winning podcast is the only one of its kind and is downloaded all over the world, encouraging blood donation on a global scale. You can find the Milkshakes for Marleigh podcast on your favourite podcast platform

Kate Fisher is the host and producer of The Milkshakes for Marleigh Podcast. She has curated it in documentary style, stand-alone episodes meaning that listeners can start with any episode that piques their interest. The hope is that listening to that one episode will be enough to encourage a listener to book a blood donation and if the listener has previously donated blood, they can wonder if they were the one who improved the quality, saved or prolonged the life of the guest on each episode.

The podcast episodes focus is not the injury of illness that requires the use of blood transfusion, but rather the incredible things that recipients go on to do with their lives after receiving the blood. This can be anything from personal or professional achievements, to community contributions or volunteer activities. For example, this could be achieving an education or a career milestone; volunteer or community contributions; graduating from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as a premature baby; representing your country as an athlete or maybe having children that would never have even existed had your life not been saved by Australian blood donors. This focus results in inspirational and uplifting episodes that focus on the best of humanity.

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While I take a little #burnout break, let’s look back at 2024 with some throwback reels to each month! 

@milkshakes_for_marleigh has achieved some truely remarkable things this year! Including becoming an @amazonkindle bestselling book, wining international awards and saving thousands of lives through inspiring people all over the world to donate blood. 

Highlights from January 2024 included: 
- #siblinglove 
- @officialblueytv @weplayludo @atqpac 
- @brisbanebullets & @jackjumpers @nbl games 
- @jurassicworldexhibition 
- #weddinganniversary celebrations 
- #covid 
- Marleigh’s 8th birthday 
- Paddy the Seizure Response Service Dog! 🐕‍🦺 

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The @milkshakes_for_marleigh book is making its way around Australia and the globe, thanking blood donors and encouraging new ones! 

In this reel you will seeing it: 
Melbourne, Victoria 
Bondi, Sydney 
Hidden Vale, Queensland 
Coonar/Bundaberg
Windsor, United Kingdom 
Brisbane & Sunshine Coast/ Queensland 
Moonee Beach, NSW 

Where have you been reading your copy? 

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@milkshakes_for_marleigh is featured in this weeks @thatslifeau magazine! 

Grab a copy of this weeks That’s Life magazine to read more about Marleigh’s Autoimmune Encephalitis remarkable story of survival thanks to Australian plasma donors! 

This article shares my motivations for starting my blood donation advocacy, The Milkshakes for Marleigh podcast and the release of my first book earlier this year called Milkshakes for Marleigh where I tell extraordinary tales of survival thanks to Australian blood donors.  It is available at all good bookstores NOW or please purchase online. 

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Please make your appointment to donate blood, plasma or platelets right NOW! 

You can gift people like Marleigh a future filled with fun, adventures, family and mischief rather than living in hospital, fighting to stay alive. 

As International Plasma Awareness Week comes to a close we thank the Australian plasma donors who have gifted Marleigh 5 bonus years. Without their generous, anonymous donations we wouldn’t get our days with her! 

To read more stories like Marleigh’s grab a copy of the @milkshakes_for_marleigh book today! It makes an excellent gift for young adults right through to those hard to buy for Grandparents! With Christmas just around the corner you can support my blood donation advocacy by using the book as a corporate gift, secret Santa present or making sure it’s under the tree for friends and family! 

Purchase via www.milkshakesformarleigh.org or all major bookstores. (Link in bio) 🥤💗🦓

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Available in bookstores June 2024

Extraordinary tales of survival 

thanks to Australian blood donors

In 2024, Kate published her first book called Milkshakes for Marleigh which tells extraordinary tales of survival thanks to Australian blood donors. Like the podcast, the concept of the book is that if you have ever been a blood donor, you can read a story in the book and wonder if you were the blood donor who saved their life? 

It is her most recent tool in her blood donation advocacy and will be available in all good bookstores in June 2024.