🎙️ The FRAZZLE Podcast – with Aoife Hughes

Nutrition, mindset and simple routines can make a real difference to your energy and focus, especially for busy mothers juggling work and home life. In this episode, I’m joined by Lucy Kenefick , nutritionist and founder of NuMe Collective , to talk about the four pillars of wellbeing: food, movement, sleep and stress management . You’ll hear us chat about: How small habits can have a big impact o...

Back-to-school season can feel like a whirlwind — uniforms, homework, activities, meltdowns and the daily juggle on top of work and home life. In this episode, I chat with Jenny Douglas, founder of A Good Moment Company, about how creating a calm, organised home can reduce stress and free up time for what really matters. We talk about boundaries, systems, and why understanding your why matters whe...

Parenting can feel like a sinking ship — especially when tantrums and big emotions take over. In this episode, I chat with Dr. Rhona Stallard about how understanding our own emotions, setting boundaries and practising self-regulation can transform the way we support our children. We share practical strategies for managing behaviour, creating safe spaces for feelings and why “good enough” parenting...

Welcome back to The FRAZZLE Podcast — Season 2 is here! I’m Aoife Hughes, Life–Work Balance coach, corporate speaker and founder of FRAZZLE. This season, we’re focusing on boundaries and systems — the two most powerful tools to help mothers with demanding careers go from stressed to calm . We’ll tackle the emotional mental load (guilt, perfectionism, permission to rest) and the cognitive mental lo...

In the final episode of Season 1, Amy Young from @DreamyCubs joins me to talk about the support that is available for parents to help their children to develop the skill and confidence to sleep. This episode also covers: Sleep is a big part of our self-care. The science behind sleep and stress. Sleep support has a positive impact on attachment. Putting children to bed earlier can be the solution....

In this episode, PwC Partner - Nicola Quinn joins me to talk about how she leveraged social connection to manage her transition back to work after her second baby. This episode also covers: The reality of maternity leave and the loneliness that comes with it. Reconnecting with yourself when feeling lost to build your confidence. Getting comfortable with building boundaries and setting expectations...

In this episode, Paula Cogan joins me to talk about how she navigated her career to become a CEO while rearing 3 sons with her husband, Mike. We talk about how to adopt a permission mindset. Permission to ask for help, put less pressure on ourselves to meet ‘be perfect’ and to follow our instincts as parents and in our career. This episode also covers: Bypassing your inner critic to say yes to opp...

In this episode, Dr Marese McDonnell  @cradle.psychology  joins me to talk about the infamous “mom-guilt” that a lot of us feel as working mothers. Sending our love on Valentine’s Day. Listen to this episode to start to free yourself from “mom-guilt”. We discuss how to manage it better so that it doesn’t get in the way of our success and investing time into our self-care. This episode also covers:...

In this episode, Dr Ros Drake @drake_chiropractic joins me to help us get a better understanding around why working mothers are so FRAZZLED so that we can protect ourselves from burning out physically and mentally.   Today’s episode covers: Motherhood depletion Matrescence (baby aged 0-7) How we change after having a baby & postnatal depression The physical, emotional and chemical triangle How...

Time is the most valuable asset that we own. It is finite. We can measure it but no one knows how much of it we have long-term. We need to invest and spend it wisely. The FRAZZLE coaching framework - 'How to run your home like a business' is about building a strategy to save time in the key quadrants of our lives; work, home and family to make room for self-care. Today's episode covers...

In this episode, Hazel Buckley @theyogatreehazel joins me to talk about how meditation can help us to manage our emotional health. Emotional health is one of the three key components of self-care, alongside physical and social health. Hazel is a mother of 3 and runs a very successful yoga practice, retreats and last year officially launched “The Yoga Tree Community” app that has a holistic approac...

In this episode, a client and good friend of mine, Jean Fenton @jeaniebean86 joins me to talk about batch cooking. Jean works full time as a registrar in The Crawford Art Gallery and has three girls under the age of 6 so she has a lot on her plate (pun intended) :) Jean signed up for the planning program, “Batch cook like a boss” to take the stress out of the limited time that she has to cook dinn...

In this episode, I introduce the “How to run your home like a business” framework. I talk about why it makes sense to a build strategy around the key pillars of our lives; work, home, childcare and self-care.  As working mothers, we are carrying a heavy physical and mental load that comes with the work, home and childcare pillars which are leading to burnout. When we become more operational around...

In this episode, the lovely Siobhan O' Sullivan from @sosfitnesscoaching joins me to talk about how to make room for self-care without the “mom-guilt”. Siobhan owns and runs SOS Fitness and takes a holistic approach to wellbeing. She is a personal trainer and coach to a lot of working mothers and talks about how they build a boundary at home to make room for exercise as a form of self-care and...

As part of baby loss awareness week, this episode is dedicated to baby Theo, baby Naoise and all the other babies that are star side⭐️ Adding a trigger warning as this may be upsetting for some. A very special friend and guest, Lisa McCarthy joins me to share her fertility journey. She bravely shares her story about how baby Theo came into the world and sadly had to leave us 💔I talk about my bab...

In this episode, I talk about how FRAZZLE born was and my motherhood journey so far. I do mention baby loss so adding a trigger warning if you would prefer not to listen. I talk about my vision for FRAZZLE and dig into what I mean when I say that my goal is to help women to make room for self-care by balancing the work that comes with home and family life. I work with working mothers on building a...

Making room for self-care by balancing the work that comes with home and family life.