Episodes

  • Work Series: If you're feeling low in confidence, listen to this - with Lauren Currie

    Work Series: If you're feeling low in confidence, listen to this - with Lauren Currie
    Jun 26 2025
    Welcome back to our special Motherkind Mini Work Series A 2022 LinkedIn survey found that 67% of women reported a “significant” drop in confidence when returning to work after maternity leave. Today’s guest is one the leading thinkers on confidence and women. Lauren Currie OBE is the founder of UPFRONT - Named by Elle Magazine as one of 30 Women Under 30 Changing the World, and by Management Today as top 35 UK businesswomen under 35 and she is on a mission to boost confidence for 10,000,000 women worldwide. In this episode you are going to learn: What real confidence is - it’s NOT something you have or don’t have - it’s a skill you learn The exact steps you can take to go from questioning to yourself and staying small to building unshakable confidence When I look back at my career and what has made the biggest difference for me, it is hands down developing this skill of confidence and anyone can learn it - you just have to know HOW and this is what this episode is going to teach you. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkindContinue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • MOMENT | What to do if your child is different with Elaine Halligan

    MOMENT | What to do if your child is different with Elaine Halligan
    Jun 23 2025
    Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Elaine Halligan shares how her son Sam’s extreme school struggles led her to retrain as a behavioural specialist. She explores why children aren’t “being a problem” but are often “having a problem” — and how understanding this changes everything. Elaine offers practical insights into neurodiversity, emotional behaviour, and how parents can shift from correction to connection. For more powerful insights from Elaine Halligan, listen to the full episode here. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 mins
  • Work Series: How to Finally Find Your Self-Belief and Just Start, with Debbie Wosskow

    Work Series: How to Finally Find Your Self-Belief and Just Start, with Debbie Wosskow
    Jun 19 2025
    Welcome back to our special Motherkind Mini Work Series This week’s episode is the inspiration episode - what this woman has achieved is actually mind-blowing: from being a single mother with a 1 and 3-year-old, to starting a business on a flight home from a disastrous holiday, to then selling that business for £53 million 5 years later. Debbie, by her own admission, is an outlier, but that’s not the point - what I took from this episode is the power of belief, the confidence in doing things on your own, being honest with yourself about the level of support + help you need and the power of starting. In this episode, you are going to learn what holds most women back from starting a business, why it’s the people you surround yourself with that make the biggest difference and how to just get started on your idea Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpodContinue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • MOMENT | Why prioritising yourself IS caring for your children, with Emmy Brunner

    MOMENT | Why prioritising yourself IS caring for your children, with Emmy Brunner
    Jun 16 2025
    Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Transformational coach Emmy Brunner joins us to explore what it means to truly "wake up" to yourself. Emmy reflects on how many of us carry feelings of shame, unworthiness, and disconnection from our needs. She shares her own turning point and how choosing to honour her needs, especially as a mother, was the start of real change. In this episode, you're going to take away powerful insights about breaking inherited patterns, living more consciously, and why prioritising your own wellbeing is the key to showing up fully for others. Listen here for more powerful insights from Emmy: How to become your true self Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Continue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    12 mins
  • Success isn't linear: 5 steps to finally start defining your own path with The Squiggly Career experts

    Success isn't linear: 5 steps to finally start defining your own path with The Squiggly Career experts
    Jun 12 2025
    Welcome back to our special series on motherhood and work. We're so excited to bring you today's episode with Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, who you will probably know from their best selling book, Squiggly Careers. In this episode, you are going to learn what makes a career squiggly (the non-linear route to success) and the ways motherhood has impacted Sarah and Helen's ambition and careers. They talk about how they made the transition from corporate into running their own careers consultancy and the amazing, quite surprising, advice they have for anyone wanting to do the same thing. You're also going to learn the five key skills that you need to have squiggly career and how to develop them if you're looking to pivot, experiment with your work or make a change. This episode is honest and packed full of practical advice which will hopefully leave you with inspiration to start your own squiggly career. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpodContinue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    55 mins
  • MOMENT | Not the Eco Parent You Wish You Were? Start Here - with Jen Gale

    MOMENT | Not the Eco Parent You Wish You Were? Start Here - with Jen Gale
    Jun 9 2025
    Climate action adviser Jen Gale joins us to unpack the overwhelming feelings of guilt and anxiety many parents experience around doing "enough" in the face of the climate crisis, and offer achievable actions that you and your family can make. For more insights from Jen Gale, listen to the full episode here: You have more power than you think Click Here⁠ to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at ⁠wildnutrition.com/motherkind⁠. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit visit ⁠Indeed.com/ Motherkind⁠ Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at ⁠calm.com/motherkind⁠ Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Continue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    17 mins
  • Work Series: The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Return Post-Maternity - the proven formula that's helped thousands, with Jessica Chivers

    Work Series: The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Return Post-Maternity - the proven formula that's helped thousands, with Jessica Chivers
    Jun 5 2025
    Thanks for joining us again for another episode in our special series on work and motherhood. This week we are focusing on returning to work and we joined by the brilliant Jessica Chivers. Jessica is a coach, psychologist, author and founder of the Talent Keeper Specialists. She has spent over two decades helping parents return to work with confidence and supporting organisations to create truly inclusive cultures. In this episode she explores what it really takes to have a successful return to work: from getting your line manager on board, to the key questions you need to ask yourself before stepping back into the workplace. Jessica also shares what she believes every organisation should be doing better to support returning talent. Jessica has advice everyone needs to hear - whether you're planning your return, you've recently made the leap, or you're supporting others through the process. This episode is packed with insights, mindset shifts, and empowering traits. If you’d like to get a copy of the Line Manager Guide that Jessica mentions in this episode, just subscribe to her mailing list HERE. Click Here⁠⁠ to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’. Access the free line managers guide for supporting the return from maternity leave here. Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at ⁠⁠wildnutrition.com/motherkind⁠⁠. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit visit ⁠⁠Indeed.com/ Motherkind⁠⁠ Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at ⁠⁠https://www.oneskin.co/⁠⁠ #oneskinpod This show is sponsored by FreePrints. Download the Free Prints app for iPhone and Android from the App store or Google Play or visit freeprints.co.uk.Continue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • MOMENT | Why it's ok to get it wrong 70% of the time, with Josh Connolly

    MOMENT | Why it's ok to get it wrong 70% of the time, with Josh Connolly
    Jun 2 2025
    Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Today we're joined by mental health expert Josh Connelly who discusses the importance of self-compassion in parenting. He explains why getting it right even 30% of the time is good enough and the importance of validating and accepting feelings. Listen to the full episode with Josh Connelly here: ⁠How addiction gets passed down the generations⁠ Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Continue the Conversation: Join 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    10 mins