Stacey Hicks
Stacey Hicks brings pop culture and entertainment back to the everyday lives of women and parents. She is Acting Editor at Mamamia and an award-winning journalist with a long background in magazines and digital storytelling. Her work sits where family life, entertainment and lifestyle trends meet, blending reported features, commentary and service pieces.
Pop culture and entertainment through lived experience
On the entertainment beat, Hicks uses specific cultural moments as entry points into how they land in family homes.
In a recent piece on Toy Story 5, she frames the film as a confronting family watch, focusing on the emotional impact on parents and children rather than the mechanics of the plot. Her coverage of children’s media controversies and viral parenting discussions returns to themes of emotional labour and adult friendships, as in her analysis of the Ms Rachel backlash and whether kids strain adult relationships. She writes about lifestyle trends such as the cult of reusable water bottles, treating everyday consumer choices as social signals and a way to understand shifting values around status, sustainability and identity. Across this strand of her work, she treats entertainment not as distant celebrity news but as the stories, products and screens that shape domestic life.
Travel, lifestyle and fashion with a service focus
Hicks covers travel, lifestyle and fashion with detailed, practical reviews and a clear sense of how women will actually use a place or product.
Her hotel and staycation writing focuses on the feel of a stay, from design and amenities to whether it works for a quick CBD break, balancing atmosphere with specifics on rooms, dining and location. She brings the same service mindset to lifestyle explainers that decode etiquette and evolving social norms, laying out what is changing and what it means for everyday interactions. Her fashion and lifestyle coverage sits alongside this, treating trends as part of a broader conversation about confidence, identity and ease rather than seasonal novelty alone. The common thread is usefulness: pieces are written to help readers decide where to go, what to buy and how to navigate shifting expectations.
Parenting narratives and modern family choices
Parenting and family structures are a recurring focus, both in her writing and her podcast contributions. Hicks has written about being the parent of an only child and the dynamics of only-child families, combining personal experience with research to unpack why some families choose to be “one and done.”
She joins parenting-focused shows to talk through the realities of modern parenthood, including friendship, burnout, guilt and the pressure of online discourse around children’s media. This work often looks at how cultural trends and expert advice collide with the day-to-day demands on parents, using candid narrative to make broader debates feel concrete.
Her parenting pieces are less about prescriptive rules and more about reflecting lived experience and giving language to tensions many families already feel.
Editorial leadership across women’s media
Hicks has spent more than a decade in women’s media, moving from print magazines into digital roles that span news, lifestyle and parenting. She has held senior roles across major consumer titles, including editing youth and celebrity magazines and working in branded content and communications.
At Mamamia she combines commissioning and editing with her own writing and regular on-air contributions to podcasts and audio series, which gives her coverage a broad view of what resonates with audiences. Her author profile emphasises a particular interest in telling real-life stories of women, and that emphasis runs through her entertainment, travel and parenting work.
The editorial perspective she brings means her pieces are shaped with a clear sense of slotting into a wider content mix, while still carrying a distinct voice grounded in lived experience.
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