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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  Something a bit different this week. It is with the poet Jessica Urlichs. This is her reading one of her favourite poems. I love this because it reminds us of what is really important. It is so easy to get lost in all the things that don’t really matter. This is an invitation to release some...

Welcome to Motherkind, we are proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition Women’s supplements, I am your host Zoe Blaskey and this is the show that is going grab you by the hand and be your guide through the wild ride that is modern motherhood.  Today I want to explore a really simple but powerful question: Can 5 minutes a day really transform your motherhood?  Because what I’ve learned over the last 8 ye...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  In this moment, Alexi explores the tension many of us feel as mothers between ambition and family. She unpacks how the drive to achieve can be tied to ego and identity, and how true purpose can be found in the present moment—whether leading a room or at home with your children—by honouring bo...

Welcome to Motherkind, we are proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition Women’s supplements, I am your host Zoe Blaskey and this is the show that is going grab you by the hand and be your guide through the wild ride that is modern motherhood. Every week I bring you world leading experts and thinkers to give us new ideas, new tools, new support, new inspiration for our lives as mothers - we span everythi...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  In this moment, Kasia explores how to break free from “good girl” conditioning and the habit of beating yourself up. It invites us to see self-criticism as a learned way of staying safe—not a flaw—and encourages boldness, self-compassion, and asking for what you truly need, especially as a mo...

This week’s episode is a solo with me - and I’m going to share 3 ways to make this summer easier and a lot more fun because I want you to hit September feeling good, not depleted - and I know that I haven’t always got this right.  So today - I’m going to teach you in just 20 mins what it has taken me years to learn. I’m going to take you through 5 ways to avoid burnout this summer - all proven, wo...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  In this powerful moment, Mel Robbins explores how deeply ingrained self-criticism and perfectionism impact women’s sense of worth. It unpacks the habit of tying self-value to external validation and achievement, and offers a call to break these patterns by practising radical self-acceptance—l...

Welcome to this very special final episode of the Motherkind Work Series. This one is close to my heart because it features you, the Motherkind community. I’m joined by three brilliant Motherkind listeners: Amy, who’s on a career pause, Vanessa, working full-time in a corporate role, and Jess, just back from maternity leave, working four days a week as an NHS psychologist. Each of them shares hone...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  This Moment episode is a re-release with the incredible writer and spiritual teacher, Rupert Spira. There’s something Rupert said during our conversation that has stayed with me:“The most important thing we can do as parents is model how we handle our emotions. That’s far more powerful than a...

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 Tod...

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 neurodiv...

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 no...

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...

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...

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...

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 i...

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 he...

Welcome back to our special series on work and motherhood. Here's something we don't talk about enough: the vast majority of ambitious, educated women will pause or shift their careers for a season while raising children, and not because they're giving up, but because they're playing the long game. In fact, 1 in 3 women will fully pause; 1 in 2 will downshift; and 90% will eventually return to the...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Yoga and breath-work practitioner Richie Norton gives us easy wellbeing tips for time-poor mums. He talks us through how we can incorporate a few quick wins into our daily routine that'll help us keep on top of hour health and our stress. For more powerful insights from Richie Norton listen to...

Welcome to our special 8 part work series. A mini series that takes a deep dive into paid work and motherhood, inspired by feedback from our community who have overwhelmingly said that this is something that’s difficult to get right. We hope that this series supports you, offers you guidance and gives you confidence. For first guest interview, we’re going straight where we need to: to the big pict...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  We're joined by trauma expert and research psychologist Dr Sarah Woodhouse, who shows us a simple trick for calming down quickly. She tells us about the importance of breathing and how our children can benefit from her techniques too. For more powerful insights from Dr Sarah Woodhouse listen...

Welcome to Motherkind’s special 8 part series on work, bringing together some of the leading voices on motherhood and work to support you wherever you’re at. This is a series that covers pausing paid work to embrace the work of raising a family, the structural challenges we face as mothers in the workplace, the 'motherhood penalty', how to return to work and so much more. And there was only one po...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  This week we're joined by New York Times bestselling author, Eve Rodksy, who tells us about her system of balancing domestic responsibilities. She highlights the difference between how men and women look at tasks and offers her gamified approach - guaranteed to reduce friction and frustration...

The first time Zoe heard the word 'Matrescence' was transformative. For her, it went from feeling like she was doing it all wrong, to realising that the early years of motherhood are meant to be a time where life gets thrown up in the air, and everything changes. Since then, it's been her mission to spread the word about Matrescence: what it really means, and the tools mothers need to navigate it...

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead.  Registered clinical psychologist and Sunday Times best-selling author Dr Soph joins us to discuss the pressure mothers feel to be perfect parents. She explains why we need to understand the distinct differences between 'guilt' and 'shame' and why we should treat ourselves with the same compas...