Parenting Collective

On this weeks episode I am super excited to chat to Aston Simmonds @aston_simmonds , Aston is a Relationship Coach helping women to deeply communicate and connect with their partner and recreate their relationship after having kids.  Three years ago Aston was having a really hard time in her own relationship and questioned divorce for the first time ever. This sent her on a journey to discover how...

On this weeks' episode I am so excited to be talking to Dr Carrie Rigoni,  she is a chiropractor who works with mums and babies.   She loves talking about all things vagus nerve.   She is based here in Perth and is passionate about supporting mums through periods of dysregulation and helping mums understand what they can do to support their baby's vagal tone too. Follow Dr Carrie @drcarr...

I am so excited to have Lou Fitz the founder of The Anxiety Project as my guest.  We have such a real, authentic chat about all things "anxiety". Lou shares her stories around her journey with anxiety, especially when she became a mumma. We both talk openly about how anxiety has affected our lives at times. Lou's passion around supporting mumma's/women with anxiety and all the...

I am so thrilled to have Sarah as a guest on today's episode. Sarah is an Occupational Therapist who is based in the Pilbara, Western Australia and the founder of Matrescence Matters.  @Matrescencematters In addition to her career as an OT Sarah is also a Neuroprotective Developmental Care, Practitioner and Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator, offering parents support in providing cue-ba...

On this week's Episode I am so excited to share with you Jeanette the founder of Starting Solids Australia @startingsolidsaustralia ,  she is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian.   Jeanette created Starting Solids Australia through her own frustration, confusion and misinformation over social media, so she wanted to create an easily accessible, safe, non-judgemental place for parents. Her webs...

So excited to share with you this week Sharon from The Functional Family @thefunctioningfamily    Sharon is passionate about helping families with ADHD.  Sharon talks about her day to day experience being a mumma of children with ADHD.   She has 13 years of research and training so she can support parents who have children with ADHD. Sharon's company "The Functional Family" has assi...

On this week's episode, super excited to be speaking to Vanessa from Reflux Rescue https://www.instagram.com/refluxrescue/ about all things babies and reflux, it is an illusive topic that is discussed so much, babies with reflux really suffer greatly and for parents it is just so challenging knowing how to support their babies when they are in pain. Vanessa is a mum whose son suffered with si...

So excited to have Natashia Telfer, Juggling Mumma https://www.instagram.com/juggling_mumma/ as a guest, Natashia is a Canberra based mum, wife, businesswoman and best selling author. She has an incredible story of strength and adversity, being a cancer survivor at the age of 19, a kindness advocate, IVF mumma, perpetual ball dropper, chaos co-ordinator and silver lining seeker. Loved chatting wit...

On this weeks podcast I am very excited to invite Sean from the The Fathering Project @thefatheringproject Sean is a father of three, grandfather to two and a husband of one.  His passion is seeing social change, and spreading the message about the importance of fathers and father figures in a child’s life, and their significant impact on development and wellbeing.  As the founder of the organisat...

On this week's podcast I am super excited to share with you Dominique Fletcher, she is a Women's Nurturing Coach  http://www.instagram.com/dominiquefletcher_ She is as her title says, the most incredible Nurturer.   I have been working 1:1 with her over the last few months , she has been able to support me through some stormy times, whilst parenting teenager's.   Really nurturing an...

On this week's poddy, I am very excited to share with you Genevieve from Connected Parenting @connectedparentingau She is a parent Educator & Obstetric Social Worker. We chat all about connected & attachment parenting.   What it means and how these technique's can support you during your parenting journey.     It may not be what you thought attachment parenting was, it certainly...

On this week's Poddy I am so excited to share the gorgeous Brooke Vulinovich, founder of https://www.instagram.com/socialclubcommunity/    She is an Insta Business Coach Extraordinaire.    Full of passion and energy and know's everything you need to know about Instagram and growing your business. Brooke and her husband Dom were client's of mine when their 6m old little man Karlo, st...

On this week's podcast I am excited to share with you Demi, Demi is Paediatric Physiotherapist and founder of Demi The Baby Physio @demi_thebabyphysio We run through what a Paediatric Physio can do to support you and your family, discuss all the different Gross Motor Skill developments that our babies will go through in their first year - 2 years of life. Also, what we can do as parents/careg...

On this week's podcast I am so excited to share with you Justine Zappa  https://www.instagram.com/birth_book/ she is a mumma of 3 and an author of her beautiful book, titled 'Birth Book - Bringing Belief back to birth.'   It is an interactive guide to birth with belief, trust and instinct.   Justine has created the book, through all of her life experience around pregnancy, birth, lo...

On this week's Podcast I talk to the lovely Dee & Cherly from Bundle and Me Midwives https://www.instagram.com/bundleandme_midwives/ Dee and Cheryl are both Midwives and Lactation Consultants who run a Pregnancy & Postpartum service here in Perth Western Australia, and also work Australia wide via Telehealth. They work closely with a great team of GP's, obstetricians and other ex...

On today's podcast I speak to the lovely Emilia who is the founder of @motherbear.postpartum,  she is a postpartum doula and doula business coach.  I asked Emilia to run through what it is that a postpartum doula can do to support families with a Newborn and beyond.  If you aren't already following me on insta head over to @bub2sleep for all my top tips and advice around sleep and parent...

On this week's podcast I am so excited to have the lovely Georgie from The Women's Collective  https://www.instagram.com/the_womens_collective/ She is a business woman, content creator and Instagram guru. After splitting from her wife in 2020 before they had children, she decided to commence the journey of becoming a mum all by herself. Today we talk about her wonderful experience, from...

I am so excited to share with you the lovely Vicky Pellowe, this is Part 2 of a 2 part series, where she shares her story of being a young adult cancer survivor, the choices she had to make around her future after Chemo and what she needed to do if she had a chance of becoming a mumma later on in life if she survived. She talks about her experience with IVF and what it felt like for her once she b...

I am so excited to share with you the lovely Vicky Pellowe, this is Part 1 of a 2 part series, where she shares her story of being a young adult cancer survivor, the choices she had to make around her future after Chemo and what she needed to do if she had a chance of becoming a mumma later on in life if she survived. Vicky is an advocacy coach, supporting anyone who has been through adversity and...

On this week's episode I am talking to Jess from Rescue Blue about the importance of learning first aid for you and your family.   Rescue Blue is a Paediatric First Aid Provider and everything is taught by Paramedic's. They are extremely passionate about educating and empowering parents to have the skills to be able to deal with life threatening experience or medical emergency. Follow th...

So on this weeks podcast I am talking to the lovely Mandy from @raisetoddlers about all things toddler’s, she is a Toddler Development Specialist!  She is an expert in her field, we could have chatted all day, she is a wealth of knowledge on how to tackle everything from toddler tantrum’s, to easing mumma's stress around all the boundary pushing and toddlers yearning for their independence. ...

On this episode I am very excited to be able to chat with Brooke Turner https://www.instagram.com/brooke.turner._/ Balance Fitness and Nutrition.  Brooke is a Pre & Post Natal Specialist in fitness and nutrition. Brooke is a mum of three and her newest addition to the family is a newborn.  We chat about all things women nutrition and exercise,  what to do exercise wise during pregnancy and whe...

I am sooooo excited to share this episode with you all,  I have united with 2 other top sleep experts here in Australia, Steph Gouin from Sleep by Steph, and Maryanne Sayers from Baby Sleep Matters.   We are all very like minded women/mothers and sleep speciliasts and we are very passionate about trying to spread the truth and positivity around baby sleep.   There is just too much negative and fal...

So excited for me to be able to share Tina from @the.birth.collective with you all.  Tina is a Hypnobirthing practitioner, she is based in Sydney and is able to support families world wide.  On this episode we talk about pregnancy, birth, and the usual feelings of fear and negativity around how you will bring your baby into the world.  Tina shares her 2 completely different birth experiences.   Sh...

Today I talk about all things regressions and the anxiety around parenting apps. I commonly see posts & messages about certain Apps telling parents that in the future their baby is expected to experience regressions and challenging times.   I don't want mum's sitting around anxiously waiting for the next regression or tough time to hit, because you worry about it and it may not even...