Parents Who Think

Visibility in your business feel like an uphill battle even though you know getting noticed is a must have? PR guru and strategy ninja, Lucy Werner joins me to bring her no nonsense PR goldmine tips and lowdown. Self promotion doesn't have to be perfect, but it needs to be real and Lucy shares how.

As founder of The Wern, a consultancy for publicity & design, Lucy has 17 years of publicity experience both in-house and for some of London's top agencies. In May 2021, she created HypeYourself.com an online DIY PR & brand platform for small businesses. She's written the best-selling book Hype Yourself and her second book Brand Yourself is written with the co-founder of her two children and creative director Hadrien Chatelet.

She's worked with hundreds of creative entrepreneurs and teaches on all things publicity for spaces such as Cass Business School, Hatch Enterprise, University of the Arts London, Courier magazine and Second Home.

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What's Soul really all about? And how possible is it to live a 'sacred' life once we become mothers? I ask world renowned writer, mystic, poet, mother, channel and creative, Rebecca Campbell, this and more. We explore how to stitch sacred soul into the daily rhythmns of busy mothering and all the paradoxes that this brings.

By the way, Rebecca believes that we ARE nature and all of her creations are in devotion to the beauty of nature and weaving the soul back into everyday life. Rebecca is a best selling author of Rise Sister Rise, Letters to a Starseed, The Work Your LightOracle, The Starseed Oracle and Light Is The New Black and her books and oracle decks are published in over 20 languages. She's also featured in Vogue, Stylist, Red, Cleo, Oprah and the Style column of the Sunday Times, Rebecca's work has been recognised globally and she's won a multitude of awards for writing, devotion and creativity.

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Are you into Sophrology? If not, after my conversation with Dominique Antiglio, you might well want to be! Dominique is a Sophrologist, author and founder of BeSophro, a global Sophrology platform which The Guardian newspaper calls the "dynamic young cousin" of mindfulness.

Dominique specialises in sleep and stress management, anxiety reduction and burn-out prevention. Her best-selling book "The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology" was the first widely published book on Sophrology in English and Dominique and her book are now the leading authority on the subject.

Sunday Times bestselling author, Rebecca Wilson recently released her third cookbook, Family Comforts: Simple, Heart Warming Food to Enjoy Together and in this episode we tuck into chat about homely foods and how to feed ourselves and our families easily. Rebecca is a mother, recipe developer, author and founder of the popular social channel @rebeccawilsonfood

Born out of her popular Instagram page @WhatMummyMakes, (now rebranded to @RebeccaWilsonFood), Rebecca's down-to-earth approach to family life and cooking has enabled her to resonate with an audience which continues to grow daily.

A follow up to Rebecca's bestselling debut book What Mummy Makes: Cook Just Once for You and Your Baby, her third book uses her personal experience to make the lives of busy families easier and broaden children's culinary tastes early. This isn't an episode full of food one up-womanship, it's especially inspirational for the lazy cooks among us!

I'm joined by Petra Wenham and her wife Loraine as we talk about freedom, femininity and feminism. Petra, a mature married transgender woman regularly gives transgender awareness talks to community groups and has been featured in the Press when she became the Women's Institute's first trans cover girl. To find out more about Petra's career and trans journey you can follow her over on insta https://www.instagram.com/petra_east_anglia/

Finding power in the things we're told to hate. My guest is Hollie McNish, writer and poet. We explore her upcoming book "SLUG and other things I was told to hate" and SO much more. We talk masturbation, grief, feminism, being blunt and of course, her poetry. PRE-ORDER MY BOOK >> NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood https://www.triumphpress.co/books/p/noise

Hollie McNish is a UK writer based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She has published three collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum – a play relating the history of UK women's football – Offside, co-written with Sabrina Mahfouz - and one poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me – of which The Scotsman stated 'The World Needs this Book' and which won the Ted Hughes Prize for New Work in Poetry. Her poems have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish and Japanese and she has performed them worldwide alongside the likes of Irvine Welsh, Kae Tempest, Jackie Kay, Helen Pankhurst and Young Fathers.Her forthcoming title – Slug: and other things I've been told to hate – is to be released in May 2021 with Fleet, Hachette.

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Rebekah Taussig, aka @sitting_pretty, joins me to crack open the disability narrative. We talk stereotypes, limitless potential and the beautiful nuanced stories Rebekah shares in her upcoming book Sitting Pretty (August 2020).Read the full show notes over on our website >> https://www.schoolformothers.com/podcast_sfm/94-sit-rebekah-taussig/

It's like puberty for the middle aged and yet ~nobody~ is talking about it. This week we delve into the issues surrounding this "taboo" topic, with our guest Meg Mathews. As Founder of Megs Menopause, Meg empowers women through honest and frank discussion of all things menopause. Meg believes that we can't find harmony and resonance within ourselves without truly understanding what is happening in our bodies. I couldn't agree more.

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Bringing up race with our kids. Blogger, screenwriter and creative consultant Uju Asika joins me to share exactly how we can raise kinder kids. We explore how Gen Z have the opportunity to change the world and our role as parents in this. As Uju says, we have to be "actively inclusive".

Uju Asika is a multiple award-nominated blogger (babesabouttown.com), digital consultant (mothersandshakers.net) and author of the book Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World, published in September 2020 by Yellow Kite (Hachette UK). Uju lives in Islington, north London with her husband and two football-mad boys. Follow Uju @babesabouttown on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook

Having the NERVE to do big and bold things. My guest this week is broadcaster and author, Kaye Adams. A UK household name, Kaye's known for her candour on-screen. We explore having the nerve to be transparent & open, the nerves of menopause and so much more.

About my guest, Kaye Adams:

Kaye is a regular panellist on ITV's Loose Women for 20 years on and off and the original anchor with Nadia Sawalha . She's bombed off Celebrity Masterchef, won Celebrity Mastermind, and was completely humiliated on Total Wipeout. Kaye presents The Kaye Adams programme on BBC Radio Scotland Mon-Thurs, 9-12. She's also co-authored, with Vicky Allan, STILL HOT! 42 Brilliantly Honest Menopause Stories.

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