The Mummafesto

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. My guest this week is author, coach and founder of Motherkind Zoe Blaskey. Zoe is passionate about helping mothers shift from guilt, exhaustion and comparison to confidence and empowerment. Zoe’s debut book is published today...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. This week I'm chatting to Lyanne Nicholl. Lyanne is the CEO of 50:50 parliament, which works to empower and enable women to get involved in politics. Lyanne is also a postnatal campaigner and in 2022 published her first book...

My guest this week is CEO and social entrepreneur Sophie Livingstone. Sophie is currently CEO of Little Village and Chair of the Baby Bank Alliance, a network of baby banks across the UK providing a vital lifeline for struggling families. Sophie was previously founding CEO of City Year UK, a charity enabling young people to tackle inequality through doing a year of voluntary service in schools. In...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. My guest this week is Vicki Broadbent, aka Honest Mum. Vicki is a writer, director and author of the UK’s Number 1 parenting blog, Honest Mum. Her blog discusses everything from family life, food, fashion, travel to her experie...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. My guest this week is Dr Martha Deiros Collado, clinical psychologist and mother. Martha is an expert in parenting, child development and pediatric health and specialises in helping children and their parents cope by taking a m...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. My guest this week is Jo Elvin. Jo is the former Editor of Glamour Magazine, former charity CEO and broadcaster. Arriving in the UK from Australia at the age of 21 Jo has had an astounding career in the fashion and magazine wor...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. Today on The Mummafesto I’m joined by campaigner and activist Rosamund Kissi Debrah. Rosamund’s incredible campaigning work followed the death of her nine-year-old daughter Ella. The inquest into Ella’s death made legal history...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. And most impressively, George is also the winner of celebrity masterchef. George, welcome to the Mummafesto. In episode 13 I chat to author and comedian George Lewis. George has written for some of the biggest shows on TV inclu...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 12 I chat to writer, campaigner and one of my oldest friends Natasha Pearlman. Natasha is currently the Executive Editor of Glamour Magazine and is the editorial lead for Glamour’s women of the year awards and over...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 11 I speak to Sarah Ockwell-Smith. Sarah is a parenting expert and is often credited as being the founder of the 'gentle parenting' movement and is vocal about childism (the unconscious discrimination of children i...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 10 I speak to Catherine Mayer. Catherine is an is writer, activist and the co-founder and President of the Women's Equality Party. She began her career as a journalist at The Economist before founding the Women’s E...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 9 I speak to Rosie Nixon. Rosie is an author, campaigner and former editor in chief of HELLO! Magazine. Rosie was Editor in Chief at HELLO! Magazine from 2008-2023. Following an intense period of burnout, Rosie sto...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 8 I speak to Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant the Screwed. In 2015 Joeli founded Pregnant Then Screwed, after being fired by her employer just two days after telling them she was pregnant. Pregnant Then Screwed...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 7 I speak to Catriona Ogilvy, founder of The Smallest Things Charity. The Smallest Things is run entirely by volunteers who've had premature babies who campaign to raise awareness, instigate change and support fami...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. In episode 6 I speak to Laura-Rose from LGBT Mummies, a campaign group fighting for equity and equality for LGBTQ+ couples. Their goal is for LGBTQ+ people and their families be represented and understood, creating a more saf...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics. Episode five's incredible guest is Lliana Bird. Lliana is a writer, broadcaster, activist and mother of two young girls. She started out as a radio DJ, and holds the record as the longest standing female DJ on Xfm/R...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics- Episode Four's special guest is Baroness Helena Kennedy, a leading barrister and expert in human rights law, civil liberties and constitutional issues. She is a Labour Peer and Chair of Justice. She’s a member of the Doughty Street Cha...

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy MP, a Labour backbench MP and mum of two young children. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics- whether the conversations at the dinner table, the journey to being one or not or trying to combine work and family life. In this episode MP Alex Sobel discusses the difficulties of balancing public life with parenting, the impact on h...

My guest on The Mummafesto this week is Elliott Rae. Elliott is a husband, dad, speaker, author and founder of the parenting platform MusicFootballFatherhood , called the ‘Mumsnet for Dads’ by the BBC. He is the curator of the bestselling book, DAD, presenter of BBC One documentary ‘Becoming Dad’, co-founder of the Working Dads Employer Awards and creator of the Parenting Out Loud campaign which e...

To kick off the first ever episode of the Mummafesto I’m delighted to welcome Baroness Beeban Kidron.   Beeban is a leading voice of children’s rights in the digital environment and has been instrumental in establishing global standards and legislation for online safety and privacy. Beeban is the founder of digital rights foundation...