10:10 Be Well: Sarah Di Lorenzo and Sally Bowrey’s new podcast like a ‘free consultation’ with health experts

A clinical nutritionist and a journalist tread laps around Sydney’s Centennial Park during a global pandemic. No, it’s not the set-up for a joke, but a set-up for what the former says will be, simply, “the best podcast”.

“If Sarah puts it on her little board, honestly it happens, she wills it so,” Seven Network journalist Sally Bowrey joked about her friend-turned-co-host Sarah Di Lorenzo.

“No, seriously, you should see what I do with my kids, I make them manifest before they head out... I’m like ‘What’s our affirmation for the day? Getting 100 per cent?’ and they’re like ‘Mum, I just want to get out the door’,” Di Lorenzo said.

This dynamic duo have spent months working on their new podcast 10:10 Be Well, which launches in October.

10:10 Be Well was borne from the women’s shared passion for health and wellness and aims to help listeners “eat better, sleep better, feel better, and get the most joy out of life”.

“I mean we’re incredibly close friends, and I would comfortably say we are best friends. We talk all the time. And if you were a fly on the wall with Sally and I, our conversations are about health and wellness,” Di Lorenzo told The Nightly.

“With this podcast, you’re going to get my expertise, with Sally’s passion for the space and her incredible expertise as a journalist interviewing people for years, and bringing in experts that we love and respect.”

10:10 Be Well promises to straddle the already-packed market of health and lifestyle podcast content. While other shows may be dense with brain-busting jargon, while many rely more on being two-pals-having-a-gab schtick, Di Lorenzo says this one is evidence-based.

“You’ll hear from Sally and I but you’ll also hear from absolute giants in their field — if it’s mindfulness, if it’s parenting, if it’s cognition, anxiety, sleep — that’s just the first few episodes,” she said.

We’re bringing in the absolute best of those people to chat with us as well.

Bowrey said she pitched the podcast to her friend — who she was once a client of — as a way to “bottle” the feeling that Di Lorenzo’s clinical expertise gave her so that people can access it at any time. For free.

“When you have a consultation with Sarah you walk out and feel so empowered that you’re putting your health first,” she said.

“I said to Sarah, why don’t we make something that can make someone feel like they’re taking charge of their life in a positive way?”

“And you get a bit of Sal and I and our sense of humour,” Sarah chimed in. Sally says: “We’ll throw that in for free!”

The seasoned newsreader described 10:10 Be Well as a half-hour window to listen to a friendly, familiar voice that has “really good advice, based on evidence-based information”.

Among the “incredible minds” they’ve recruited for their debut season, the first cab off the rank is the man behind Ash Barty’s return to champion tennis form: mindset coach Ben Crowe.

“He’s the real deal,” Di Lorenzo said.

Bowrey said every expert was “at the top of their respective fields” and had insights that would resonate with every listener in some way, or on a particular day. Almost like getting a free consultation.

She felt it first-hand while editing their episode delving into anxiety, which she was doing on a “particularly stressful day”.

“It’s so funny because it felt like a chat and it almost felt like a session with, in that case, a respected doctor. It hit me that day and I took that advice myself.

I love that, with podcasts, you can walk away feeling like something shifted a little bit inside you.

While they both Other experts to feature in the first season are Dr Fiona Kerr, Dr Nick Fuller, GP Michaela Sorrenson, sleep expert Olivia Arezzolo, and Dr Fatima Khan — who Di Lorenzo said was “changing the face of menopause”.

“All of them [the experts] had incredible things to share, but I think when it came to being a pioneer in an industry that is so overwhelming to women, listening to what Fatima is doing and her attitude, how she treats people, it was amazing,” she said.

“Honestly, hand on my heart, Fatima is changing the face of menopause — which needs to be changed because we’re in a world where it’s at the forefront now.”

Bowrey agreed: “Her mission to really look at the mental health aspect of hormone health really shifted how I looked at the past, and how I look at the future of my life. That was a real game-changer for me. It was something I didn’t really think about in that context.”

The hosts want 10:10 Be Well to be a source of hope and positivity for listeners to tune in for as it has been for them to produce.

That is why Di Lorenzo believes it will be the best podcast.

“I know it’s going to do well because it comes from the right place with the right intention that will land on the listeners,” she said.

“We’re driven by our passion of a love of health and wellness and our passion for helping others. We’ve got the same vision.

“And I know bringing it together with our different areas of expertise has made such a polished product with our different skillsets. It just IS going to be the best podcast.”