Hello! I’m Lise.
Not Lisa, Liz or even Lice. Just Lise. Rhymes with cheese.
In 2023, my family and I travelled through Europe for five weeks with less than 7kgs of luggage each. Our self-imposed carry-on only challenge made headlines around Australia. Who knew portable luggage scales, four sets of packing cubes and a stress-twitch in your right eye is all it takes to go viral?
Look, I'm no expert. I'm just a girl, standing in front of a backpack asking it to weigh less than the airline carry-on restriction. I am a staunch minimalist traveller, largely fuelled by my impatience and intense dislike of luggage carousels, the offensive girth of wheelie suitcases, and anyone who plastic wraps their bags.
I’m a presenter, event producer, author, and one half of Lise and Sarah - a weekly podcast I co-host alongside my best friend and colleague, Sarah Wills. We’ve interviewed and shared stages with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Celeste Barber, Zoe Foster Blake, Mia Freedman, Sarah Wilson, The Hon. Julie Bishop and Leigh Sales. Our podcast is for the news-and-school-WhatsApp-group avoidant person who just needs a good belly laugh. We also wrote a book - Forty Favours the Brave.
Now? We tour the country with DISCO CLUB - the largest event series for women in Australia borne from a podcast. Selling out in all major Australian capital cities since 2023, DISCO CLUB has taken the country by storm as the must-experience event designed for women of all ages and stages. It’s everything you miss about night clubbing, and nothing you don’t.
You can listen to us here and see what we get up to here and here.
I like fashion dupes, cleaning out drawers, eating sour lollies, dancing and writing.
Why subscribe?
If you recently cancelled your streaming services to watch my Instagram packing diaries and Euro-holiday extravaganza, I feel you’re already in quite deep. I’ve given you chic compression packing cubes, decimated undercarriages, a haunted chateau, tapir anatomy lessons and Liam Neeson. What more could you animals possibly want?
[Spoiler: you’ve been very vocal about you want. Some may say exacting. I love it.]
you want the Europe itinerary with all the links to all the day trips and all the villas
you want to know what worked, what didn’t, and what I wish I’d done differently
you want a capsule wardrobe blow-by-blow + other fashion finds
you want my travel MVPs + things I generally find wonderful
you want skin care + makeup packing tips
you want to know about travelling with tweens and teens
you want hacks, you want lists, you want French vinaigrette recipes
you want to know how I got my behemoth husband to wear linen, DON’T YOU!
Your subscription will give you the blow-by-blow of my European packing neuroses + fashion finds, dupes, 1-step recipes, and general life recommendations. It’s my frontal lobe on a plate, mes amis.
Bon appetit!
