Miracle Working Mums

This week I am talking to Elina Demurger-Jones about the career “one-night stands” she was able to try out with the security of her partner’s financial support to enable her to flirt with different jobs, including working around nursery hours, before finding her one true vocation in life. Elina shares her child-like rage when her husband decides to follow her into the same career. Despite their ca...

This week on Miracle Working Mums I get to speak to Rachel, a fashion-industry creative with no static definition of herself. She tells me about the glamour of the industry, hanging out with celebs and living the fashion-dream with no thoughts or visibility of women in the industry having kids. We talk role-models, ladette culture, and being a girl, and I get to quote my favourite Madonna song (th...

This week I have been talking to Michelle Junaid who always knew she wanted a big family and a career with longevity, but never thought about how those things would impact each other. Michelle had her first child whilst working for a company with no maternity benefits above statutory minimum and she helped the company enhance this knowing that it was already too late for her to benefit from that p...

In this episode of Miracle Working Mums Podcast I am talking to Helen Eber, a senior HR Professional with one son, who is based in Singapore. We discuss some of the differences in motherhood in Singapore and the UK, the amazingness that is a confinement nurse, and the benefits of home help and affordable childcare. Helen also shares her story of assisted fertility, the inconvenience of multiple me...

Trigger warning: baby loss Today I am talking to another Hannah, who wanted to share her story about multiple miscarriages, but didn't want to be fully identified. Hannah has a senior operations role in the financial services industry. Too often women are going through one of life's greatest tragedies without being able to talk about it at work as they fear how their colleagues and managers will r...

  Welcome to Miracle Working Mums podcast with me, your host, Hannah Pring, where we will explore the working woman’s journey to and through motherhood. Through this podcast I will ask my guests to talk about their lives before they were mothers to understand a little bit about what their expectations and plans were, and then we will reflect on what the reality was for them as their families grew...