Parents Who Think

"Invisible and Unacknowledged"

• The link between the mental load and sex
• What the world would be like if the mental load was equally divided between men and women
• Raising kids that *don't* expect women to be domestic managers by default
• And more...

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About my guest, Emma Clit:

Emma is a 40-year-old writer and computer science engineer who lives in Paris but who says she learns 'all over the place'. Emma's strips have a record of going viral. 'You Should've Asked' was viewed on blogs around the world, and an article about her in the French magazine L'Express drew 1.8 million views - a record since the site was created.

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You know those times when you think things really can't get any worse?…and then they do. Today's episode is all about getting your arse kicked (by life!) and picking yourself back up again. My guest for this fab convo is Susie Lodge, Founder of Wiki Places for Kids. We get right into how to overcome obstacles over and over again in business, life, family and beyond.

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About my guest, Susie Lodge:

Susie Lodge is the founder and director of the award-winning platform Wiki Places For Kids. Available online and as IOS and android apps, wikiplacesforkids.com Is a TripAdvisor for parents looking for things to do all across the UK where everything has been added and recommended by parents. The mum of three says the app will be a game-changer for time-poor parents once the restrictions are lifted as it will ping you to let you know what is open and what safety measures are in place in venues all across the UK, saving you time from searching from site to site.

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Dealing with the BLOWs of life. My guest today is Eleanor Tweddell author of Why Losing Your Job Could Be The Best Thing That Ever Happens To You. We're exploring the highs and lows of success + failure, anger/revenge and getting in agreement with it. Top quote from this episode's got to be "I don't give a shit anymore"

Trigger warning for this episode: mention of miscarriage

About my guest, Eleanor Tweddell:

After being made redundant a few years Eleanor wondered what else she could be doing. After 23 years of corporate life, working for great brands like Costa Coffee, Virgin Atlantic and Vodafone she decided to set up her own business. She wrote a blog about being out of work, and now that is the business she runs, along with her writing and her book, which was published by Penguin this autumn. She now helps people through losing their job, to make it the best thing to happen to them.

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We're challenging stereotypes in today's Sunday Supplement episode. My guest, Clare Willetts, and I explore the dangers of stereotypes and the impact they have on individuality, creativity and worldview. From 'girl' toy aisles that are 100% pink and baby mad, to the hyper-masculine 'boy' aisles that encourage destruction and fighting - the noise around gender is loud from birth. If you're wanting to parent on the basis that gender does not define your life path (or anything else), this is the episode for you.

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About my guest, Clare Willetts:

Clare is CEO and Founder of Not Only Pink and Blue an online retailer challenging stereotypes in children's clothes, books and toys. Clare set up not only pink and blue to challenge the tradition of dressing girls in pink and boys in blue. After all, there are 11 colours and over 10 million shades to choose from! As well as all the colours, she wanted to see more inclusive books with diverse role models, and toys that feed imaginations. Clare previously worked in marketing and advertising for 20 years leading agency teams at TBWA and M&C Saatchi, before going on to head up Customer and Brand Experience at Virgin Group. Now as Founder of notonlypinkandblue.com she delivers talks about the long-lasting effects of stereotypes and works with leaders from multiple fields to map and promote the benefits of a world that does not stereotype children.

Mentioned in this episode: Gina Ripon and Cordelia Fine

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Is life a STAGE? The multi-talented Nicole Ansari joins me for a conversation on STAGE. Whether that's her on-stage (and screen) roles, setting the stage as a director, the different stages of life and so much more (including the hemp/cannabis had on Nicole's life and work)

"It's in the uncomfortable moments that change and transformation and the deeper understanding of ourselves as human beings and our purpose here can take place."

About my guest, Nicole Ansari:

Nicole Ansari Cox is an internationally renowned actress, producer and director of Film, TV and Theatre who, parallel to her acting career which started at the age of 14, has pursued and been certified in numerous training programs in the healing and wellness field. She was born a seeker of spiritual knowledge and is a certified advanced Theta healing practitioner, KRI certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, IAYT certified Yoga Therapist, certified OM trainer and life coach and coaches actors and professionals.

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How do we find Zen in and amongst the NOISE of motherhood? Today I'm joined by Founders of Zen Mana and Hollywood actresses and entrepreneurs, Sarah Wright Olsen (Mad Men, Parks & Recs, Spinning Out) and Teresa Palmer (Sky TV's, A Discovery of Witches). We have a down-to-earth conversation about Finding our Zen in and amongst life/motherhood/the-whole-caboodle.

Join us as we explore:

• Finding Zen with a VERY busy schedule
• How to establish & maintain boundaries
• The power of small habits
• Letting go > embracing the peaks + troughs
• Love Languages
• And more....

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About my guests, Sarah Wright Olsen and Teresa Palmer:

Sarah Wright Olsen is a mother of three, Esme, Wyatt and Winter. She started the website Yourzenmama.com with her partner Teresa Palmer to help support mothers, fathers and caregivers and provide a safe space to learn and share stories about the parenting journey. Sarah has starred in many TV shows and movies including Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, The House Bunny and opposite Tom Cruise in American Made. She is currently has a show on Netflix called Spinning Out. Sarah is also the co-owner of a plant-based organic mommy/baby skincare line, baeo.com

Teresa Palmer is a mother of three, Bodhi, Forest and Poet, and stepmother to Isaac. She has starred in many major films, including Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, for which she received an AACTA nomination for best supporting actress, and Ride Like a Girl, the biopic of trailblazing Melbourne Cup winner Michelle Payne. She is currently playing the starring role in the Sky series A Discovery of Witches while running the plant-based wellness brand Lovewell.

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How do we FEED our ambition? I'm joined by TV Chef and "Challah Mummy" Allegra Benitah for a conversation on FEED. We get right into: - What FEEDs Allegra's ambition and how this has changed over the years - What FEEDs her passion for all things challah and growing fruit and veg at home - Allegra's decision to step away from her career as a Magic Circle Tax Lawyer when she became a mother - and how that doesn't make her any less ambitious for herself Here's a quote from Allegra that I adore "Being a mother ramped everything up for me intellectually".

About my guest, Allegra Benitah:

Allegra Benitah read Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge before qualifying as a Tax Lawyer at a Magic Circle Law Firm. After the birth of her first child, Allegra walked away from her legal career to be a full-time Mum. Allegra began baking to entertain her children and became a TV Chef and Instagram baking personality known as the Challah Mummy. Allegra has appeared on many TV Shows, including ITV's This Morning, Good Morning Britain and James Martin's Saturday Morning.

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We're reclaiming JOY on the podcast with Molly Mahar, founder of Stratejoy! Here's a fab quote from Molly > "I'm not afraid of joy. I'm more afraid of boredom and numbness than I am of grief or despair. So I think that's the flipside of letting joy in. You have to let the hard ones in too." YES to that - it's about feeling it all! We get into: - Reclaiming JOY - Being ballsy and going for gold - The link between rest + contemplation + joy - That Public/Private persona balance

About my guest, Molly Mahar:

Molly Mahar is the founder of Stratejoy — an online community that has helped thousands of women reclaim joy and meaning in their world. She's an entrepreneur, mama, and adventurer obsessed with taboo topics, designing personal experiments, and the power of sisterhood. Her superpowers? Telling the truth kindly, gathering awesome women together, and yes — reclaiming joy.

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"The mother is the beginning of everything yet she's often the last called to the table" Dr Aurelie Athan joins me for an episode about motherhood, identity, and so much more. Aurelie's a reproductive psychologist and faculty member at Columbia University where she's revived the term Matrescence. Her work is revolutionary - unlike the majority of academic studies into motherhood she focuses on the actual mother (not their children). She studies mothers' development holistically, both their thriving AND distress. In this episode we explore how her work on matrescence led her to new work around reproductive identity. If you've seen the back cover of my book, NOISE, you'll know that the central question I explore is "How can I be a Mother and be Me?" so talking about motherhood and identity is always right up my street. In fact, I reference Aurelie's research in NOISE, and the quote above is included in the book.

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MEET felt like a rather apt title after a year of limited meetings, and needing to meet plenty of new challenges, too! In today's episode I'm joined by Founder of @happity.co.uk Sara Tateno. We get into >>> - How Happity began - Gender neutrality in parenting - The power (and importance!) of support networks - Combining motherhood + startup life .... and more!

About my guest, Sara Tateno:

Sara is the co-founder of Happity.co.uk, the UK's leading platform for finding and booking classes for under-5s. She is passionate about connecting new parents in their communities to make life better. Sara worked in corporate roles before having children. She had the idea for Happity during her second pregnancy having been abruptly made redundant. Determined to bring her idea to fruition, yet knowing nothing about tech, she started learning to code with her baby in tow and went on to build the first versions of the site. She now oversees the Product and Technical aspects of Happity, with a team that has always worked flexibly from home, long before Covid came along!

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