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Terri Cole 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. Terri’s mission is to empower as many people as possible to stop living out learned boundary behaviors that don’t serve them. The techniques, tools and strategies that Terri shares teach people to align...

This Moment is with Dr. Maryhan. Dr Maryhan is a groundbreaking psychologist and parenting expert, as well as a mother of two. For over 15 years she has been supporting children, teens, and young adults struggling with managing their emotions, low confidence and anxiety. @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to g...

Louis Weinstock is a Child Psychotherapist who works with children and the child inside us all. For over 20 years, he has been guiding children and grown-ups through some of the toughest challenges life can throw at us – loss, trauma, divorce, burnout and breakdowns. He is also co-founder of Apart of Me, a multi-award-winning charity that guides children on their journey through loss and trauma. H...

This week’s Moment is with Paul Carrick Brunson. Paul is a relationship expert and matchmaker known as the ‘love doctor’ and ‘real-life Hitch’. He is also a television host, serial entrepreneur, and author. Paul 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. @zoeblaskey - co...

I am really excited to bring you this week's episode with guest Reshma Saujani. Reshma 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 an...

Oliver Burkeman is a best-selling author, keynote speaker and for many years he wrote a popular column for the Guardian, which you may have heard of, 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. Oliver shares with us positive psychology that can help us overcome the overwhelm, make better choices and build a more meaningful relationship with time. Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram @...

This week's guest is Dr. Emma Svanberg. Dr Svanberg is an award-winning clinical psychologist, speaker and campaigner specialising in attachment, trauma and perinatal psychology. co-Founder of Make Birth Better CIC and Founder of the Psychology Co-operative, Emma aims to make psychology more accessible and question some of the assumptions we make about parenting, children, families and the world w...

This Moment is with Lauren Currie OBE. Lauren is the founder of Upfront and she is on a mission to change confidence for 1 million women by the end of 2023. She is also the trustee and chairperson for the incredible charity, Pregnant Then Screwed. And in 2017 she was awarded an OBE for her service in design and diversity. I am so excited for you to listen to this Moment. I believe as mothers we al...

This week's guest is Rosey Davidson. Rosey is an author, speaker and founder of Just Chill Baby sleep, an infant sleep consultancy supporting families to get better sleep. Rosey is a mum of three, and the sleep consultant of choice for many celebrity parents.  She is extremely passionate about making sleep information accessible to all parents and offers a range of resources including her award-wi...

This Moment is with Dr. Becky Kennedy. She is a clinical psychologist, mom of three, and founder of the incredibly popular Good Inside. When she first started out, she practiced a popular behavior-first, reward-and-punishment model of parent coaching. But after a while, something struck her: those methods felt awful — for kids and parents. So she got to work, taking everything she knew about attac...

This week’s guests are the comedy legends that are the Scummy Mummies - Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson. Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn joined forces to become The Scummy Mummies in 2013. They have since gone on to produce an award-winning podcast, a sell-out touring comedy show, a popular book, and their own range of merchandise. They have an ever-growing social media presence, with more than 160,000...

This Moment is with health and science journalist and mother of two, Chelsea Conaboy. Chelsea has done 1000s of hours of research into the science of what happens to your brain when you become a parent. What she finds is quite incredible, and it is all in her new book, Mother brain, how neuroscience is rewriting the story of motherhood. I hope you find this Moment supportive, and if you want to ca...

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. 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 par...

This Moment is with Rebekah Borucki. She is the author of You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss and Managing the Motherload: A Guide to Creating More Ease, Space, and Grace in Motherhood. I hope you find this Moment supportive, and if you want to catch the full episode, click here. COME VISIT MOTHERKIND ON INSTAGRAM INST...

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. I was lucky enough to sit down on stage with a packed audience to speak with Kate Ferdinand. She is mum to Cree and step-mum to Rio Ferdinand’s 3 children. She is also the author of How to build a family out on the 11...

This Moment is with Brooke Lightstone. Brooke is a family energy healer, a women’s spiritual guide and meditation teacher and author. Brooke speaks beautifully about working to heal women and mothers. For me, she is the absolute epitome of grace, calm and wisdom and I really enjoyed our conversation.  I hope you find this Moment supportive, and if you want to catch the full episode, click here. Le...

This episode is with author Melissa Urban. Melissa is a seven-time New York Times best-selling author who specialises in helping people establish healthy boundaries. I recently read her book The book of boundaries: set the limits that will set you free. I loved this book so much - I just had to get her on the podcast. Motherkind is the official podcast partner for The Baby Show with Lidl GB 2023....

This Moment is with Kimberley Wilson. Kimberley is passionate about the power of psychology to transform lives. She is a Chartered Psychologist, author and visiting lecturer working in private practice in central London. I hope you find this Moment supportive, and if you want to catch the full episode, click here. COME VISIT MOTHERKIND ON INSTAGRAM INSTAGRAM: @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and...

This week I have a joyful guest for you. It is Laura Brand. She is a mum of 2 and author of 3 incredible books. Her newest book is called Slow down and be here now. A gorgeous book about nature and how it can help us slow down and be more present. I loved this conversation. Especially how honest Laura was. She reminded me about how messy, imperfect, joyful, hard and wonderful motherhood is. SPECIA...

This Moment is with Matthew Fray. After Matt’s wife came to him and asked for a divorce, he began a journey of self-reflection to understand what went wrong. He wrote a now-viral article called My wife divorced me, because I left dishes by the sink, and then a best-selling book called This is how your marriage ends. What he learned is incredible. And I think pretty life-changing stuff. He saw that...

I am in awe of anyone who can take on life’s challenges and turn them on their head. This week’s guest, Megan Rose Lane, embodies that courage. Megan is a spiritual mentor who empowers women to break through fears and limitations by harnessing their inner power and aligning with their soul truth. She knows courage well - the courage it took her to face and heal from her life-threatening eating dis...

This Moment is with the inspiring Roxie Nafousi. Roxie is a self-development coach and manifesting expert, mother, and the author of the best seller MANIFEST: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life. You know that little orange book that you would have seen all over social media. It's been an absolute sensation. I hope you find this Moment supportive, and if you want to catch the full episode, click here...

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. Michaela helps ambitious working mothers burn bright without burning out, using her Pause Purpose Play framework in group coaching and 1:1 th...

This Moment is with the incredible Susanna Abse. Susanna has been a leading couples therapist for 35 years. There is not much Susanna doesn't know about love and relationships. And to support us, she has a new book out called Tell me the truth about love, which is a collection of amazing stories from the therapist's couch. I hope you find this moment supportive, and if you want to catch the full e...

This episode feels life-changing and I’m super excited for you to hear it. It is with Dr. Nicole LePera, best known as the holistic psychologist. Dr. Nicole has taught me so much throughout my parenting journey. Dr Nicole is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book How To Do The Work and the recently released Bestselling How to Meet Your Self Workbook. She is the creator of the #SelfHe...