Frolo: The Single Parent Podcast
The Frolo Podcast will see host, Zoë Desmond, chatting to fellow single parents and experts about all things related to navigating life as a single parent.Zoë Desmond is the the founder of Frolo, the social networking App and community for single parents. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Episodes
“I was 19 and I had three months to transition from being a 19 year old freshers student into being a mum.”
When Jas was 16 she became involved with a much older man, in what turned out to be a very toxic and unhealthy relationship. She discovered that her son Bertie was on the way when she was five months pregnant and so had only a short amount of time to get used to the idea of becoming a mum at such a young age. Bertie is now thr...
“Telling your sweet, innocent children their Dad is dead are not words that comfortably come out of your mouth.”
On September 11th 2016 Karen’s husband Simon went out for a Sunday morning bike ride with a friend and never came home. Simon suffered a cardiac arrest and his death completely shattered Karen. Suddenly she found herself a single parent to her two children, then aged nine and five, grieving not just the loss of her husban...
“I appeared to be functioning at a very high level. I had all the things that I think are the ‘trimmings’ of a successful life, yet my feelings, my emptiness, was so, so pervasive.”
Dr. Nicole LePera felt like she lived the perfect life, and yet she felt empty, stuck in the same patterns of behaviour, living on autopilot. Over many years of self-reflection and professional training, she has learned to live more consciously. Consciou...
“I just felt like something wasn’t right. I rushed him into the hospital and the doctors were brilliant. For the first year I was just getting diagnosis after diagnosis.”
Jaxon was just six days old when mum Kaytee first felt like something wasn’t right. A trip to the hospital led to tests, which led to more tests, and over the course of Jaxon’s first year he was diagnosed with a range of complex syndromes, some of which have never ...
“On the day that I was approved to be his adoptive parent I went to the foster carer’s home for dinner. It was such an amazing feeling because I knew he was going to be mine.”
Becoming a parent is a massive life change for anyone but deciding to become a solo parent, and then going through the process of adoption alone, is not something anyone enters into lightly. For Leon, it was something he’d dreamed about since aged 18 when he f...
“Anyone who tries to tell you how to train your child or train your baby, that’s the path to misery for me.”
In business, Fleur Emery is a force to be reckoned with, a hyper-efficient ball of energy, renowned for her firm boundaries and unapologetic authenticity. When Fleur became a single parent in her early 40s, she was taken completely by surprise, having already grieved the idea of never becoming a mum. Her approach to parenting...
“No matter how hard it might seem in that moment or how difficult life is, it will get better. There are people out there who care about you and want the best for you.”
Rewind 15 years and James Hunt was living a very different life. Working as a tennis coach, he’d recently started dating the woman who would become the mother of his children and his day to day life was pretty straightforward. Two years later and James had started hi...
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