A glorious guest discussing everything concerning business, motherhood, Instagram, having three kids, stopping comparisonitis, blogging, breast pumps, flogging old socks and much more...

My glorious guest this week is Sophie Griffiths, founder and director of Mama Buba Bump, an online village of support from experts and mamas. Through her incredibly diverse and experienced range of experts, Sophie has created a community where mums can benefit from  expert information you can trust, support from other mamas in the same position as you as well as exclusive access to podcasts, mama mentors and live webinars and online workshops. In this episode we talk relationships, fertility issues, parenting sassy girls, going from being an employee to an entrepreneur, mindset work, and the importance of good biscuits. Check out www.mamabubabump.co.uk or @mamabubabump on Instagram for more information!

My wonderful guest this week is Ali McDowall, one of the two directors and creators of The Positive Planner, a daily journal that helps you track how you’re feeling and work through what’s on your mind. Mum of two, and PND discusser, Ali is beautiful, warm, passionate and a real joy to chat to (we are already planning a drink when she's next in London!)

THINGS WE DISCUSS IN THIS PODCAST:

What postnatal depression looks like

Loss of identity and its powerful effect on our feelings about ourselves and motherhood

Learning to accept being in the present

Celebrating work for its own joy, and accepting that working can make us happy

How The Positive Planner is a transformational tool (it really is)!

How The Positive Planner developed from a dream into a business

Medication and depression

Crafting and using your hands

The importance of playgroups, community and being social, even when we don't feel like it

Finding positivity in the little things

My guest this week is Eloise Rickman, mother of Frida and author of www.fridabemighty.com, a brilliant website that chronicles Eloise and Frida's adventures via homeschooling and gentle parenting. Passionate about peaceful parenting, creating meaningful family rhythms, and incorporating a Montessori philosophy into her home,

THINGS WE DISCUSS IN THIS PODCAST:

The role of the mother in society - how staying at home to raise our children can be the ultimate feminist act

Celebrating raising children as a beautiful adventure

Why learning in its own right is a privilege

Celebrating work for its own moral joy, not just a means to a financial end

The importance of the outdoors and its impact to improve everyone's mental health

An organic adventure - from learning about alternative parenting methods with her own child to creating a beautiful business that helps other parents

Praise and punishment - are these outdated concepts and do they work with kids?

Why women often seem to end up staying small in their ambitions - does this happen in our responses to praise at school?

BOOKS WE DISCUSS:

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn

There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge) by Linda Akeson McGurk

How Children Learn, 50th anniversary edition by John Holt

BLOG POST BY ELOISE ON PRAISE:

https://fridabemighty.com/2018/03/02/in-praise-of-not-praising-why-its-bad-to-say-good-job/

My guest this week is the fabulous Ruth Kudzi, Business and Mindset Coach, a business devotee, who is passionate about supporting women to build profitable service-led businesses. Ruth is informative, thoughtful, and totally committed to coaching. She is also hilarious, a loving mum to two girls (18 months and 3 years) and wife to a man with a sugar habit. She seems to have it all - but does she, and if so how?! Ruth shares her top tips with me in this brilliant episode, which was such a pleasure to record.

Power of Mum® The Podcast: this first episode features Megan Rossiter,

founder of Positively Birthing, talking about business, motherhood and much

more besides.