This week we sit down with Anna Whitehouse - journalist, broadcaster, author and founder of the Flex Appeal movement, to talk about what it really means to raise families in a system that wasn’t built for parents.

Anna opens up about her decade-long fight for flexible working rights, why motherhood and capitalism clash and how the 9-to-5 structure born from the industrial revolution continues to fail women and families. We discuss everything from the childcare crisis and gender pay gap to the myth of “having it all”, mum guilt and the need for men to be part of the conversation around equality and parenting. 

Anna’s honesty cuts through the noise as she calls for systemic reform, emotional intelligence in workplaces and a redefinition of success for the modern family. This episode is a reminder that the problem isn’t that we’re failing. It’s that we’re being failed by a system that needs to change.

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