• Celebrating 600 episodes: the 6 powerful lessons I’ve learned and how you can apply them too
    Oct 9 2025
    Welcome to a very special episode of The Motherkind Podcast – our 600th episode! We are proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition Women’s Supplements, and this show continues to be your expert guide through the wild ride that is motherhood. Even after all these years, I am still obsessed, truly obsessed, with supporting you, the woman behind the mother. I can hardly believe it. When I started this podcast eight years ago, I never imagined we’d be here – 600 conversations later, countless hours of wisdom shared, and an incredible community tuning in every week. Whether you’ve been listening since the early days or this is your very first episode, thank you. The millions of downloads, the Sunday Times bestselling book, the live events – none of it would exist without you. So, however you’re feeling as you listen today, I want you to know this: you’re doing far better than you think, and I’m right here cheering you on. In this special milestone episode, I’m giving you a gift – the six biggest lessons I’ve learned from 600 episodes. The ones that have changed me most as a woman, a mother, and a human being. My hope is that they’ll do the same for you. Get your free 3 days of 5-minute Motherkind here - 21 days to reset your energy, mood and mindset. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. Start planning your next family getaway with The Family Suite. Explore the full collection now at thefamilysuite.co.uk and discover luxury hotels around the world that truly welcome families, without compromise. Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ MotherkindContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    16 Min.
  • Frida Founder: “You Can’t DIY Yourself Through Motherhood”
    Oct 8 2025
    Today, we have a bonus episode with the incredible Chelsea Hirschhorn, founder of Frida, the brand behind FridaBaby, FridaMum, and soon-to-launch FridaFertility in the UK. Chelsea is not only the driving force behind an innovative business, she’s also a fierce advocate for parents, especially mothers. Frida has broken barriers with campaigns that have made history. From airing the first-ever ad showing a lactating woman at the Golden Globes (after years of those stories being silenced), to the first Sports Illustrated cover featuring a woman proudly showing her C-section scar – something never done in the magazine’s 58-year history. Chelsea shares the unbelievable behind-the-scenes of these groundbreaking moments in our conversation. She was also in London for the unveiling of the world’s first postpartum statue – created to shine a light on the reality of motherhood in a world where fewer than 4% of statues represent women, and almost none acknowledge mothers. If you’re in London (or visiting), I urge you to go and see it – it will give you all the feels. [Link to statue details] This episode will leave you feeling seen, inspired, and uplifted. Chelsea is refreshingly honest about the truths of building a brand while raising four children, and she shares so many powerful lessons and practical insights for parents navigating life and work. In a world where beauty is often curated, airbrushed, and sanitised, one universal truth remains hidden in plain sight: the raw, unvarnished experience of childbirth and motherhood. Frida, the brand that has rewritten the language of parenthood under the direction of founder and CEO Chelsea Hirschhorn, now unveils Mother Vérité — the first monument to raise mothers onto the pedestal they deserve. FRIDA.com 5 Minute Motherkind: 21 days, 5 minutes a day to become your calmest, happiest self get the first 3 days FREE here Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 Min.
  • MOMENT | How to reduce the stress of mealtimes, with Rhiannon Lambert
    Oct 6 2025
    Motherkind Moment is your place for calm, connection, and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Rhiannon Lambert, one of the UK’s leading nutritionists and the bestselling author of The Science of Nutrition. Rhiannon shares such a refreshing message about food and children: we need to stop stressing. She explains how our little ones pick up on the pressure we put around food – and how that can actually push them further away from eating the things we want them to. Instead, Rhiannon shares practical, kind advice to help us take the pressure off and support a positive relationship with food. I loved Rhiannon’s honesty about her own experience – including the nights her little boy refuses dinner completely and the small, realistic swaps she makes to keep things simple. This is such a reassuring, non-judgemental conversation. A reminder that no child is a perfect eater, and that taking the stress out of mealtimes can transform not just what our children eat – but how we all feel around food. To listen to the full episode with Rhiannon, listen here. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 Min.
  • Why Raising Resilient Kids Starts With Us with Dr Alex George
    Oct 2 2025
    ***Trigger warning: This episode makes reference to suicide. Please be mindful of this before hitting the play button*** Welcome to Motherkind, proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition Women’s Supplements. This week’s guest is Dr Alex George, a doctor, mental fitness expert, and formerly the UK’s first Youth Mental Health Ambassador. I was so keen to speak with Alex about what he’s learned in this role, especially around children’s mental health and how closely it connects to our own as parents. In this honest and moving conversation, Alex opens up about his own childhood, the struggles he faced, and what he wishes he’d known back then. He shares his hopes for what schools could do differently, and how the tragic loss of his brother has shaped both his life and his mission to support young people today. This episode is full of wisdom, vulnerability and plenty of practical ideas – not just for supporting our children, but for looking after ourselves too. ✨ Buy Dr Alex’s new book – Happy Habits Available now at Waterstones or Amazon Happy Habits is an empowering, practical toolkit for children aged 9+. Designed to nurture happiness, build resilience and support everyday wellbeing, it introduces small, achievable daily practices to help young readers thrive emotionally and physically. Get your free 3 days of 5-minute Motherkind here - 21 days to reset your energy, mood and mindset. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. Start planning your next family getaway with The Family Suite. Explore the full collection now at thefamilysuite.co.uk and discover luxury hotels around the world that truly welcome families, without compromise. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ MotherkindContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    57 Min.
  • MOMENT | Do you have a dysfunctional family? with Julia Samuel MBE
    Sep 29 2025
    Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Julia Samuel. In this conversation, we discuss a subject that’s often difficult to talk about: what happens when our family is dysfunctional. We cover how to recognise if we’re operating in that environment. And how do we know when it’s time to set boundaries, or even take the painful step of cutting contact altogether? Julia shares her perspective on what truly defines a dysfunctional family, the emotional toll it can take, and the complexity of navigating those relationships. She reminds us that there’s no simple formula, every situation is unique, but that protecting our emotional and mental well-being sometimes means making tough, heartbreaking choices. To listen to more on this conversation with Julia Samuels, listen to the full episode here. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 Min.
  • The ultimate (realistic) guide to fitness in motherhood, with Elizabeth Davies
    Sep 25 2025
    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 to 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, and new inspiration for our lives as mothers - we span everything from work to relationships to mental health and healing to parenting. And I am very happy you are here. This week, as part of our September reset mini-series, we are talking all things fitness with the amazing Elizabeth Davies, aka this woman lifts. In this powerful episode, you are going to learn why so much of the fitness content we consume has one aim: to make us feel bad, why as mothers we can’t work out like everyone else, how to set realistic goals for ourselves, how to get back into fitness and how to keep going when we have constant curveballs. Elizabeth talks about exercise in our 30s + 40s like paying into a pension pot, which will pay us back when we are strong, fit, healthy old ladies. I loved this episode - it’s funny, it’s real, and it’s going to help you completely reframe your fitness as a mother Introducing Elizabeth’s latest book, Training For Your Old Lady Body: an honest, no bullsh*t guide to help women (re)frame exercise as a way of safeguarding our quality of life into older age; moving our bodies now in a way which sets us up to stay strong, active, independent and resilient as we grow older. This is not a six-week bikini body transformation, but a way of life training. Elizabeth will make the case for why we need to rewrite the narrative around women's fitness and how we can change our behaviour and form new habits. With a focus on muscle and strength and power, bone mineral density, heart health, the pelvic floor, mobility, flexibility and stability, this is a groundbreaking, urgent call-to-arms designed to get women moving with a focus on the bigger picture. Pre-Order now 5 Minute Motherkind: 21 days, 5 minutes a day to become your calmest, happiest self. Get the first 3 days FREE here Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ MotherkindContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    55 Min.
  • MOMENT | Choosing authenticity, even when it isn’t what others want to hear, with Candice Braithwaite
    Sep 22 2025
    Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Today’s Moment is an emotional and deeply moving clip from my conversation with Candice Brathwaite. Candice shares the boundaries she’s had to set, the loneliness that can come with standing in her truth, and the heavy costs of being the “black sheep” in her family. With honesty and courage, she reflects on what it means to live authentically—even when it means breaking away from tradition, facing criticism, and sometimes feeling alone. Yet, as Candice shares so beautifully, she couldn’t imagine living any other way. Her story is a powerful reminder that living in alignment with your truth can feel isolating, but it can also create legacy, freedom, and deep impact for generations to come. For more powerful insights from Candice, listen to the full episode here. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 Min.
  • How to Turn Your Hardest Motherhood Struggles Into a Career With Purpose with Michelle Kennedy
    Sep 18 2025
    This week’s episode is with an incredible woman, Michelle Kennedy, founder of Peanut, and she has a new book out called “It Takes a Village” Michelle and I unpack our experiences of new motherhood, and how it was the loneliness in the early years that felt the most jarring to our pre-motherhood selves. Michelle gives us some incredibly practical tips for how she manages a family + a business, what her non-negotiables are, and what she got very, very wrong when she first went back to work. You are going to take so much away from this episode - here it is. You can purchase your own copy of Michelle’s book here Please make sure you subscribe - the mental load is high enough as it is, so when you subscribe, you don’t even need to think about finding the new Motherkind episode - it’s just waiting for you - so it helps you and it helps me, as the more subscribers we get, the better and better the show can become. 5 Minute Motherkind: 21 days, 5 minutes a day to become your calmest, happiest self. Get the first 3 days FREE here Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months and a free personal consultation with a nutritional therapist at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    35 Min.