Welcome back to Moment. Your moment on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week I am speaking with Paul Morgan-Bentley, author of “The Equal Parent” and dad to his three-year-old son. He welcomed into the world via surrogacy with his husband, Robin. As a gay dad, Paul found himself in a unique position as he took on primary caregiving and felt sick of all the praise he received for doing the basics. He saw how mothers were carrying t...
Nov 20, 2023•7 min
Have you ever walked into your house, seen all the mess, seen all the jobs that you can't quite get to and thought to yourself, I'm failing? Listen in because it’s going to totally change how you feel. Today’s guest is therapist and author of the book ‘How to keep house, whilst drowining” - KC Davis. If like me ever thought to yourself - what is wrong with me that I can never stay on top of the: laundry, the food shopping, the meal planning, the sorting out the kid's clothes and just the 100s of...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Welcome back to Moment. Your moment on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week I am speaking with Terri Cole, who is a licensed psychotherapist, global leading relationship expert and author of the best-selling book, Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free. We chat about why mother's don't need to do it all, and how boundaries can help you relieve some of the pressures we put on ourselves. I...
Nov 13, 2023•14 min
Welcome back to Motherkind, the show that is here to support you in motherhood. This week, I speak to fellow podcaster and mum of two, Millie Mackintosh. I think you're going to be surprised about how honest she is, and she reveals things that she has never spoken about before in her experiences of motherhood. We talk about: How stopping drinking has changed her life completely What her matrescence was like Why she feels like a completely different person now We also talk about the mental load a...
Nov 09, 2023•46 min•Ep. 271
Welcome to this week's moment episode, where I speak with the incredible Reshma Saujani, who is best known for the organisation she founded called Girls Who Code. It is one of the most influential nonprofits in the world and it has introduced millions of women to coding and the tech industry. During the pandemic, Reshma found herself with a 3-week-old and a pre-schooler trying to run her organisation and look after her family full-time. And that's when she broke. She says she spent the last 10 y...
Nov 06, 2023•8 min
Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast, this is the show that's going to give you confidence, clarity, and connection in this wild ride of motherhood. Today I'm speaking to the wonderful presenter and author Cherry Healy. This is a really special episode for me, because I remember watching Cherry has a baby way before I became a mum and I just fell in love with her. She is one of those women that you just want to be friends with. She is smart, honest, funny and she's pioneered women's...
Nov 02, 2023•56 min•Ep. 267
**Trigger warning** This episode comes with a warning about birth trauma and recovery. Please give it a miss if you think it might be hard to listen to. Welcome to this week's moment episode, where I speak with the incredible Illiyin Morrison. Illy is an author and mother of two. She is also a midwife, specialising in postpartum recovery and care, facilitating birth debriefs. Illy supports couples and birthing parents as well as non-birthing parents with an awareness that perinatal trauma affect...
Oct 30, 2023•12 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. I loved speaking to Zeenat, and I hope you enjoy this episode too. Continue the conversation Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases by clicking here. Lear...
Oct 27, 2023•22 min
Recorded live at The Baby Show with Lidl GB. The Baby Show is the UK's largest and most popular pregnancy, baby and parenting event where Motherkind was the official podcast sponsor. My guest is Lydia Bright. You might know Lydia from her reality TV show days you also might know her from the incredible work she does advocating for and supporting the Foster Care Community. Listen to learn: How hypnobirthing helped ease Lydia birthing process Boundaries when the baby arrived Lydia’s experience of ...
Oct 26, 2023•33 min•Ep. 269
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week's moment episode is with international best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, Sarah Knight. We are going to talk about how to overcome the guilt of saying no to something. Sarah walks us through a tool she created to help us navigate where our guilt is coming from, and what guilt isn't yours to hold. I hop...
Oct 23, 2023•11 min
***Trigger warning - we talk about domestic abuse - if this is a negative trigger for you, please pass on this one*** Malin Anderson is this week's guest - she is a mental health advocate, a motivational speaker, and a body confidence activist you might know who rose to fame following her appearance on Love Island 2016 but now she uses her platform to promote body positivity and self-love. This episode cracks open the reality of abuse in a relationship both physical and non-physical. We discusse...
Oct 19, 2023•49 min•Ep. 268
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week's moment episode is with Emma Reed Turrell who is a psychotherapist and author of Please Yourself: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Transform the Way You Live. Sounds good. Doesn't it? I am a people-pleaser in recovery, which you may have heard me talk about before, but it is such a huge part of my recovery and my life. And it is still ...
Oct 16, 2023•10 min
Welcome to this episode of Motherkind Podcast. The show that is going to give you confidence, clarity, and connection in this wild ride of motherhood. This week's guest is Lotte Jeffs, she is the co-author of the “Queer parent everything you need to know from Gay to Z”. I learned so much from speaking to Lotte, and this episode is going to leave you with a broader, more inclusive perspective on parenthood. I think it's absolutely vital for every single one of us, because we are raising the next ...
Oct 12, 2023•49 min
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week, I speak to the incredible Donna Lancaster. She has worked as a coach, a group facilitator and a therapist for more than 30 years - I cannot tell you how much I respect Donna and her work. In this moment episode we are talking about forgiveness. Donna shares with us her experience of forgiveness and the freedom that can be found within...
Oct 09, 2023•10 min
Welcome to this week’s episode, where we will completely reframe post-natal depression and anxiety. I was never diagnosed, but I felt very low and anxious in those early days and in the first few years. Today's guest is psychologist Yara Heary who is going to give us a new frame of reference for how we think about that experience. You will learn how to see your experiences as part of a bigger picture. Please send this episode to any new mums you know or anyone going through a tricky time in that...
Oct 05, 2023•30 min•Ep. 266
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week I speak to the incredible Gelong Thubten, who has over 20 years worth of experience working with schools, universities and businesses, such as Google. He’s lectured at institutions like Oxford and the UN and, he worked as a consultant on the Marvel Movie, ‘Dr. Strange’. In our conversation, we unpacked how to sit with your feelings and...
Oct 02, 2023•10 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. This week I am speaking to Alex, who shares how uncovering her real values and what is really important to her in motherhood and life has completely changed how she approaches her life as a mum of two I loved speaking to Alex, and I hope you enjoy this episode too. Continue the conversation Come engage with Zoe and our community over o...
Sep 29, 2023•26 min
This week’s guest is the incredible Roxie Nafousi. She is a best-selling author and manifesting expert. It’s the second time Roxie has been on the podcast, and you all loved our first episode together. I love how open Roxie is, and in this episode, we talk about how, just a few weeks ago Roxie ended up in an ambulance after temporarily losing her sight and how that was the wake-up call she needed to approach her life very differently. You are going to learn: How to get out of exhaustion and burn...
Sep 28, 2023•41 min•Ep. 265
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week, I chatted to Tom, a dad of two and the host of the podcast Dad Vibes. In this episode, we talk about: The pressures and expectations on parents as a result of social media How every single parent loses their cool How to repair when you get angry with your child I hope you enjoy this moment episode. As always, we continue the conversat...
Sep 25, 2023•10 min
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This episode talks about baby loss and infertility. If this is a trigger for you, it may be best to skip this one. Welcome to this episode of Motherkind, the show that gives you all the tools, ideas and validation you need as you navigate your life as a mother. Sometimes the hardest things that we face, are also the things that we most need to talk about because it's often those things that we don't have the words for. Sophie Martin, in her job as a midwife, helps women eve...
Sep 21, 2023•45 min•Ep. 264
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week, I’m talking to Jennifer Petriglieri, a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD. Jennifer studied the successful relationships of people who both had successful careers, and what she found was absolutely fascinating. Listen to this moment episode to find out the secret to thriving as a dual-working couple. I hope you enjoy this...
Sep 18, 2023•11 min
Welcome to the motherkind podcast, which is going to help you feel more confident and less alone in the wild roller coaster that is modern motherhood. My guest this week is Georgie Crawford. Georgie was just at the end of her maternity leave when she first discovered a lump in her breast and what followed was a roller coaster journey of self-discovery. Georgie says that for the first time in her life, she learned how to value herself and her needs. Thankfully she fully recovered and is now about...
Sep 14, 2023•45 min•Ep. 263
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week I speak with Lucy Jones. She is an investigative journalist, award-winning author and has just written a new book called Matrescence. Matresence is one of my favourite words and subjects ever. It describes the process of becoming a mother - the confusing discombobulating cocktail of emotions that happens when we transition from woman t...
Sep 11, 2023•10 min
Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show which is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. This week’s guest is the lovely Anna Mathur, psycho-therapist, best-selling author and mum of three. I’m also very grateful to be able to say a good friend of mine and a massive supporter of the podcast. This is Anna’s 4th time on the podcast, and we recorded this episode to celebrate the launch of her 3rd book, "Raising a happ...
Sep 07, 2023•48 min•Ep. 262
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. In this episode, I talk to Dr Samantha Hiew, who is a leading voice and expert on ADHD for women, and who was diagnosed herself aged 40 right after the birth of her second child. So many of our Motherkind community are being diagnosed with ADHD, wondering if they have ADHD or may be curious about it. I asked Dr Samantha Hiew how does ADHD inters...
Sep 04, 2023•9 min
Welcome to this weeks episode - I have an incredible one for you. This week’s guest is Paul Carrick Brunson. He is a relationship expert and matchmaker known as the ‘love doctor’ and ‘real-life Hitch’ and also a television host, serial entrepreneur, and author. He was chosen as the World’s Most Influential Matchmaker by the Matchmaking Institute and currently co-hosts Married at First Sight UK and Celebs Go Dating on UK’s Channel 4. I love this conversation and was so blown away by Paul. He is i...
Aug 31, 2023•57 min•Ep. 261
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week's moment episode is with Jane Lightworker, who is a mum of three, an intuitive business and life coach and the creator of the #1 course for empathetic people looking to take their energy and power back. In this moment episode we discuss: What it meant to be an empath Whether you are an empath How to protect your energy Ps. Throughout A...
Aug 28, 2023•10 min
Welcome to this week’s Motherkind episode, where we chat with the incredible boundaries expert Melissa Urban. She is a 6x New York Times bestselling author and specialises in helping people establish healthy boundaries. Listen to learn: Why boundaries aren’t there to control anyone’s behaviour but to communicate our needs and our limits The different levels of boundaries (Melisa illustrates this with a green, amber and red boundary) to help you assess what level to communicate Why boundaries are...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 317
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with the one and only Mel Robbins. Mel is a former lawyer and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world. Her TedX talk has had nearly 30 million views, and she is the author of the best-selling book The High Five Habit. In this episode, Mel provides an amazing tool to stop worrying and teach your child...
Aug 21, 2023•10 min
In this episode, we focus on how to find freedom from perfectionism. It is with the incredible Michaela Thomas. Michaela specialises in perfectionism and its ties with stress, anxiety, depression, productivity, procrastination, burnout and overall wellbeing. Throughout August I have a break from recording new episodes to reset, take a breath, and reconnect with the family. During this period, we re-release the most downloaded episodes from the past 6 months. Michaela helps ambitious working moth...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 259
