The Motherkind Podcast

Motherhood is incredible. It's also incredibly challenging, especially with the high pressured, fast paced world we live in today. The Motherkind Podcast hosted by Motherkind founder and coach Zoe Blaskey, is on a mission to bring you some of the best wellbeing teachers in the world to help you find your calm, happy place in the madness of modern mum life. Each episode features a different teacher from the world of self-development and wellbeing or a mum on a path of self-enquiry. We cover everything from how to stay calm in a toddler meltdown, to dealing with anxiety, to self care and simple tools to help you have a better day.

Episodes

MOMENT | The surprising reason you’re still criticising yourself and how to change it - for good, with Kasia Urbaniak

July 14, 2025 • 10 mins

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 mother navigating a world not built ...

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If you’re nervous about juggling everything over the summer: listen to this

July 10, 2025 • 23 mins

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, worked for me and clients. 5 Minut...

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MOMENT | How to break the habit of hating yourself with Mel Robbins

July 7, 2025 • 12 mins

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—loving and validating yourself exac...

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Work Series: Listener episode: What we wish someone had told us about work + motherhood

July 3, 2025 • 48 mins

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 honestly and openly about what’s work...

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MOMENT | The most important thing we can do as parents is model how we handle our emotions, with Rupert Spira

June 30, 2025 • 13 mins

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 anything we could ever teach or sa...

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Work Series: If you're feeling low in confidence, listen to this - with Lauren Currie

June 26, 2025 • 48 mins

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 Today as top 35 UK businesswomen und...

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MOMENT | What to do if your child is different with Elaine Halligan

June 23, 2025 • 8 mins

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 neurodiversity, emotional behaviour, and h...

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Work Series: How to Finally Find Your Self-Belief and Just Start, with Debbie Wosskow

June 19, 2025 • 51 mins

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 not the point - what I took from th...

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MOMENT | Why prioritising yourself IS caring for your children, with Emmy Brunner

June 16, 2025 • 12 mins

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 mother, was the start of real cha...

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Success isn't linear: 5 steps to finally start defining your own path with The Squiggly Career experts

June 12, 2025 • 55 mins

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 talk about how they made the transi...

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MOMENT | Not the Eco Parent You Wish You Were? Start Here - with Jen Gale

June 9, 2025 • 17 mins

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 to thrive in a world of endless...

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Work Series: The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Return Post-Maternity - the proven formula that's helped thousands, with Jessica Chivers

June 5, 2025 • 42 mins

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 inclusive cultures. In this episod...

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MOMENT | Why it's ok to get it wrong 70% of the time, with Josh Connolly

June 2, 2025 • 9 mins

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 here: ⁠How addiction gets passed d...

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Work Series: The Truth About Stepping Back from your career — And Coming Back even Stronger, with Neha Ruch

May 29, 2025 • 44 mins

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 workforce. So these old labels of...

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MOMENT | No time? Try this 2-minute wellbeing reset, with Richie Norton

May 26, 2025 • 13 mins

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 the full episode here: Well-be...

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Work Series: You’re Not Imagining It — The System Is Rigged Against Working Mothers, with Jane van Zyl

May 22, 2025 • 50 mins

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 picture, to reveal the systems and str...

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MOMENT | Calm your nervous system in seconds with this technique - with Dr Sarah Woodhouse

May 19, 2025 • 8 mins

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 to the full episode here: Why yo...

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The Work Series: my biggest mistakes and regrets - Zoe’s story

May 15, 2025 • 50 mins

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 possible way to kick off this series:...

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MOMENT | How to share the mental load without fighting, with Eve Rodsky

May 12, 2025 • 12 mins

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 in your home! For more powerful...

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The word every mother needs to hear

May 8, 2025 • 58 mins

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 with far more self-compassion. Thi...

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Episodes

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MOMENT | How to break the habit of hating yourself with Mel Robbins

Work Series: Listener episode: What we wish someone had told us about work + motherhood

MOMENT | The most important thing we can do as parents is model how we handle our emotions, with Rupert Spira

Work Series: If you're feeling low in confidence, listen to this - with Lauren Currie

MOMENT | What to do if your child is different with Elaine Halligan

Work Series: How to Finally Find Your Self-Belief and Just Start, with Debbie Wosskow

MOMENT | Why prioritising yourself IS caring for your children, with Emmy Brunner

Success isn't linear: 5 steps to finally start defining your own path with The Squiggly Career experts

MOMENT | Not the Eco Parent You Wish You Were? Start Here - with Jen Gale

Work Series: The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Return Post-Maternity - the proven formula that's helped thousands, with Jessica Chivers

MOMENT | Why it's ok to get it wrong 70% of the time, with Josh Connolly

Work Series: The Truth About Stepping Back from your career — And Coming Back even Stronger, with Neha Ruch

MOMENT | No time? Try this 2-minute wellbeing reset, with Richie Norton

Work Series: You’re Not Imagining It — The System Is Rigged Against Working Mothers, with Jane van Zyl

MOMENT | Calm your nervous system in seconds with this technique - with Dr Sarah Woodhouse

The Work Series: my biggest mistakes and regrets - Zoe’s story

MOMENT | How to share the mental load without fighting, with Eve Rodsky

The word every mother needs to hear

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