When you meet her for the first time, you feel like you already know her.
Clémentine Galey is the founder of the Bliss Stories podcast dedicated to unfiltered motherhood, one of the most listened to podcasts in France (650,000 monthly listens).
It is this soft and laughing voice, which has the habit of slipping into the ears of its listeners.
She is the good friend who knows how to listen and collect the confidences of women, from the darkest to the happiest.
Inhabited by all these testimonies that she has been collecting for 4 years – she is on the 190th episode -, the 44-year-old woman was not however destined for this life of a successful entrepreneur.
Casting director for TF1, she multiplied interviews in her former life to recruit future stars of reality TV.
It was in 2017 that
“This casting plunged me back into the world of maternity and introduced me to the world of liberal midwives that I had not known during my two pregnancies.
I had 2000 questions to ask them, I found their job absolutely magical!” recalls Clémentine Galey.
At the same time, the latter already consumes many podcasts, particularly on entrepreneurship.
After 10 years of casting and 7 years at TF1, she who never thought of going freelance feels the need to breathe new life into her professional life, without yet knowing in which direction to go.
The boost of fate will come from an influencer in Australia who explains in an Instagram post that she told a podcast about her 5 pregnancies.
In her car, the one who is still intermittent in the show hurries
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A microphone at Christmas to get started
"Suddenly, this girl that I only know on Insta talks to me about her 5 pregnancies and her 5 deliveries as if she were next to me"
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says Clémentine, her eyes still sparkling.
"I understand that it's all there: it's a moment of absolute intimacy, of emotions but also of information, all with benevolence and immediate empathy."
Back home, the young woman types on Google the words "podcasts", "maternity", "France".
She finds nothing and then understands that she has her "side project", the one that will give meaning to her professional life.
A few weeks later, at the foot of the Christmas tree, she receives the microphone that will allow her to get started.
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She records her first two interviews with those around her, with a friend and her cousin, who openly discuss their experiences of motherhood.
"The magic works immediately, we live two hours suspended and I feel totally in my place"
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Bliss was born.
These first two episodes will be broadcast in April 2018, followed by a third and very quickly, the success is there.
In just a few weeks, the podcast has gathered more than 100,000 listens.
The listeners are there, but the women also want to testify.
Of the first 10 she contacted, whether influencers or “girl next door”, 9 responded.
And this urgent need to indulge has continued to grow since 3 years later,
In video, the trailer for “Post-partum, the documentary”
“I did everything on instinct”
“This wave overwhelmed me a bit, I did everything instinctively and because I wanted to help women.
I remember my sister saying this decisive sentence to me after she gave birth: "If you hadn't told me anything, who would have?"
I had to go but in reality I was petrified”, smiles Clémentine today, who describes Bliss Stories as “the job of her dreams”.
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And to the woman that she is, what have these four years of testimonies and confidences brought her?
“They awakened my feminism and my political and societal commitments”.
With more than 157,000 subscribers on Instagram, the podcaster now strives to use her voice to convey messages on various subjects: protests by midwives, right to abortion, stop shaken babies... In return, she also receives, in addition to the words of parents who listen to her, many messages from caregivers who tell her that they have been more benevolent with their patients thanks to her.
“What is very inspiring about Clémentine is that she is always able to question herself, humanly, politically and professionally.
Even if she's not at
“I raise my children in absolute feminism”
The Bliss adventure is now an integral part of her family life;
from the books she receives, to posters scattered around the house, to discussions about motherhood with her 11- and 9-year-old son and daughter.
“I raise them both in absolute feminism, they are very sensitive to it.
For example, they participated in Andréa Bescond's podcast for children "And if we spoke to each other?", in which she discusses the notions of consent, harassment, body, etc.
They also wanted to add their stone to the building
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” explains Clémentine Galey.
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Aurélie Saada and Clémentine Galey, on the Trianon stage.
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For four years, the latter has multiplied to bring the Bliss experience to life beyond her podcast: she notably created Bliss Bump, a paid audio program dedicated to pregnancy and postpartum month after month, and the Bliss Vanity , full of accessories to better live after childbirth (shortys, care oil, spray, etc.).
“My goal is to accompany women before, during and after birth, holding their hand until the end”.
Since March 8, 2022, it has added a new string to its bow with the establishment of evenings inspired by the podcast in performance halls: the Bliss Show.
With a whole panel of guests on the stage of the Trianon in Paris, from the midwife Anna Roy to the influencer and therapist Louise Chabat or the singer Aurélie Saada, she goes to meet the Bliss community, to celebrate the women and motherhood in an uninhibited way.
Each time, his audience was there.
A daring and successful bet since after Le Trianon and a tour in the provinces, it has taken the date for the Olympia on March 8th.
A full evening.