Burnt Out Mums Club

Content note: This episode discusses periods, PMDD, pregnancy loss, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and the emotional weight of reproductive health. We share some very personal things. We think that matters. This is not an easy episode to write a blurb for, because what happens in it is the kind of conversation most of us have never had — not with our mothers, not with our doctors, not even with ourse...

You know that feeling when you look around at other people's lives and wonder how they have it all so sorted — while you're just trying to find where you put the permission slip that was due yesterday? Yeah. Same. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. In this episode, Alison and Alexi get real about what it actually looks like to run a household when your brain wor...

Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. Got a diagnosis — or starting to wonder if you might need one — and have no idea what comes next? This is the place for you. In this mini episode, we each pull back the curtain on our own businesses and how we work differently for neurodivergent women and mums. First up, Alexi talks about her approach to nutrition for neurodivergent bo...

Feeling like you don't know yourself anymore? This is the place for you? Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. There's a particular kind of lost that hits when you're standing in a supermarket, with time to yourself for once, and you realise you have absolutely no idea what you actually want. This week Alison and Alexi get into something that doesn't get talked about enough —...

Even been so full of rage that you couldn't put a sentence together? This is the place for you. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. Nobody warned us about perimenopause. Not really. There were no classes, no preparation, and apparently very little research — especially if you compare it to, say, the amount of money that went into Viagra. This week Alison and Alexi get into o...

Ever felt like you've got nothing left to give but you just have to keep going? This is the place for you. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. Burnout isn't a bad week. It's not forgetting to wash your hair or being a bit tired at school pick-up. It's when your brain goes offline, your body stops cooperating, and you find yourself sitting in a women's business breakfast want...

Ever wished you could just read in to the brain of your autistic partner? This is the place for you. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. This week, Alison is joined by a very special guest: her husband Rod. And yes, her friends are going to be very jealous. Rod was diagnosed with autism and combined-type ADHD in early 2025 — later in life, and after a path that most late-dia...

Feel bad for losing your proverbial at your kids this morning? This is the place for you. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. If you've ever held it together just long enough to get everyone to school — then sat in the car park and cried — this one's for you. This week, Alison and Alexi dive straight into the chaos of a genuinely brutal morning: sleep deprivation, a house in...

Ever walk away from a conversation with more questions than answers? This is the place for you. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club. School holidays mean one thing: actual mum catch-ups. Not play dates where you spend the whole time refereeing — real conversations, over coffee, without small people interrupting every thirty seconds. This week, Alison comes to the podcast with...

Feel touched out, talked out, burnt out and over it? This is the place for you. Welcome to The Burnt Out Mums Club. Every podcast starts somewhere. This one starts with two friends who got tired of advocating for their kids in a bubble — and decided to stop gatekeeping their conversations. Between them they've got three kids of varying spiciness, two step-kids of untold spiciness, a late-diagnosed...

Burnt Out Mums is a podcast for spicy mums raising spicy kids — and for anyone who's ever made a lunchbox in the middle of a meltdown and called it a win. Hosted by Alison Anderson and Alexi Hogan, this is a space for neurodivergent families navigating school systems, advocating for their kids, and trying to figure out their own brains along the way. Between them they bring lived experience, p...