

The Motherkind Podcast
Zoe Blaskey
Motherkind is the podcast for women who know that motherhood changes everything — and want to grow forward, not “bounce back”.
Hosted by Zoe Blaskey, Motherkind explores the profound personal, emotional and professional transformation that happens when you become a mother. This is a space for women navigating the wild, identity-shifting years of motherhood who want to reclaim confidence, redefine ambition, and build a life that works for who they are now.
Each week, Zoe sits down with world-leading experts, thought leaders, psychologists, authors and well-known figures to unpack the real experiences of modern motherhood — from matrescence and identity loss to confidence, boundaries, work, relationships and self-worth. Expect honest conversations, evidence-based insight and practical tools that help you move through this season with clarity and strength.
Motherkind is not about doing more, fixing yourself, or returning to who you were before children. It’s about becoming who you are now — with intention, compassion and growth.
If you’re a mother who wants to feel more like herself again — confident, grounded and excited about what’s next — this is your place.
Motherkind: for the woman behind the mother.
Hosted by Zoe Blaskey, Motherkind explores the profound personal, emotional and professional transformation that happens when you become a mother. This is a space for women navigating the wild, identity-shifting years of motherhood who want to reclaim confidence, redefine ambition, and build a life that works for who they are now.
Each week, Zoe sits down with world-leading experts, thought leaders, psychologists, authors and well-known figures to unpack the real experiences of modern motherhood — from matrescence and identity loss to confidence, boundaries, work, relationships and self-worth. Expect honest conversations, evidence-based insight and practical tools that help you move through this season with clarity and strength.
Motherkind is not about doing more, fixing yourself, or returning to who you were before children. It’s about becoming who you are now — with intention, compassion and growth.
If you’re a mother who wants to feel more like herself again — confident, grounded and excited about what’s next — this is your place.
Motherkind: for the woman behind the mother.
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Oct 16, 2023 • 10min
MOMENT | How to raise children that don’t become people pleasers with Emma Reed Turrell
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week's moment episode is with Emma Reed Turrell who is a psychotherapist and author of Please Yourself: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Transform the Way You Live. Sounds good. Doesn't it?I am a people-pleaser in recovery, which you may have heard me talk about before, but it is such a huge part of my recovery and my life. And it is still very much a work in progress for me.Listen to learn how to raise children who can express their emotions, needs, and wants in a healthy way and avoid becoming people pleasers.I hope you love it.Announcement Motherkind is the official podcast partner for The Baby Show with Lidl GB 2023. It is the UK's most popular pregnancy and parenting event and is back for its 21st year at Olympia London from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd October 2023. Use this LINK to get your ticket for just £18.Continue the ConversationCome engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskeyJoin our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 12, 2023 • 49min
Being judged as a queer parent | Lotte Jeffs
Welcome to this episode of Motherkind Podcast. The show that is going to give you confidence, clarity, and connection in this wild ride of motherhood. This week's guest is Lotte Jeffs, she is the co-author of the “Queer parent everything you need to know from Gay to Z”. I learned so much from speaking to Lotte, and this episode is going to leave you with a broader, more inclusive perspective on parenthood. I think it's absolutely vital for every single one of us, because we are raising the next generation, and acceptance and compassion start very young. I hope you love this episode. Special thanks to our sponsor VIVO BAREFOOT Vivobarefoot are offering Motherkind podcast listeners a 10% discount, so use the code MOTHERKINDVB on their website to take advantage of this fantastic offer. Visit - https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk today. Announcement Motherkind is the official podcast partner for The Baby Show with Lidl GB 2023. It is the UK's most popular pregnancy and parenting event and is back for its 21st year at Olympia London from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd October 2023. Use this LINK to get your ticket for just £18.Continue the ConversationCome engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskeyJoin our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 9, 2023 • 10min
MOMENT | How to finally move on from the past with Donna Lancaster
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week, I speak to the incredible Donna Lancaster. She has worked as a coach, a group facilitator and a therapist for more than 30 years - I cannot tell you how much I respect Donna and her work. In this moment episode we are talking about forgiveness. Donna shares with us her experience of forgiveness and the freedom that can be found within in it. I hope you enjoy it. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there.ANNOUNCEMENT I am excited to share that Motherkind is the official podcast partner for the baby show with Lidl GB 2023. It will be held from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd at Olympia, London. I will be there on saturday the 21st of October at 1:30pm recording a ive podcast with a very special guest talking about all things motherhood. Use code: MOTHERKND for a limited time 30% discount on all tickets (Originally £26 now only £18). Click here to purchase a ticket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 5, 2023 • 30min
The BIG lie mothers need to know | Yara Heary (AKA Life After Birth)
Welcome to this week’s episode, where we will completely reframe post-natal depression and anxiety.I was never diagnosed, but I felt very low and anxious in those early days and in the first few years. Today's guest is psychologist Yara Heary who is going to give us a new frame of reference for how we think about that experience. You will learn how to see your experiences as part of a bigger picture. Please send this episode to any new mums you know or anyone going through a tricky time in that postpartum period. We need to get these kind, compassionate ideas out there. Special thanks to our sponsor AG1Visit https://drinkAG1.com/MOTHERKIND to get a FREE year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase.Continue the ConversationCome engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskeyJoin our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 2, 2023 • 10min
MOMENT | The art of mindfulness and how to sit with your feelings with Gelong Thubten
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week I speak to the incredible Gelong Thubten, who has over 20 years worth of experience working with schools, universities and businesses, such as Google. He’s lectured at institutions like Oxford and the UN and, he worked as a consultant on the Marvel Movie, ‘Dr. Strange’.In our conversation, we unpacked how to sit with your feelings and train yourself to become more mindful in your daily life. I hope you enjoy this moment episode.As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 29, 2023 • 26min
Motherkind community | Alex's story
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood.This week I am speaking to Alex, who shares how uncovering her real values and what is really important to her in motherhood and life has completely changed how she approaches her life as a mum of twoI loved speaking to Alex, and I hope you enjoy this episode too. Continue the conversationCome engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskeyJoin our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 28, 2023 • 40min
How you build unshakable confidence in your children | Roxie Nafousi
This week’s guest is the incredible Roxie Nafousi. She is a best-selling author and manifesting expert. It’s the second time Roxie has been on the podcast, and you all loved our first episode together. I love how open Roxie is, and in this episode, we talk about how, just a few weeks ago Roxie ended up in an ambulance after temporarily losing her sight and how that was the wake-up call she needed to approach her life very differently. You are going to learn:
How to get out of exhaustion and burnout even when you have no energy
How to teach your children the importance of emotional literacy
How to build confidence in both yourself and your child
I hope you love it. If you'd like to learn more about Roxie, you can look on her website, Instagram and buy her latest book 'Manfiest for Kids' here. Special thanks to our sponsor ATHLETIC GREENSVisit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase.Continue the ConversationCome engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskeyJoin our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 25, 2023 • 10min
MOMENT | We all mess up: it’s what we do next that matters with Tom Piccirilli (AKA Dad Vibes)
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week, I chatted to Tom, a dad of two and the host of the podcast Dad Vibes. In this episode, we talk about:
The pressures and expectations on parents as a result of social media
How every single parent loses their cool
How to repair when you get angry with your child
I hope you enjoy this moment episode. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 21, 2023 • 45min
I’m a midwife who’s had 11 rounds of IVF and experienced tragic loss: Here is what needs to change with Sophie Martin
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This episode talks about baby loss and infertility. If this is a trigger for you, it may be best to skip this one. Welcome to this episode of Motherkind, the show that gives you all the tools, ideas and validation you need as you navigate your life as a mother. Sometimes the hardest things that we face, are also the things that we most need to talk about because it's often those things that we don't have the words for. Sophie Martin, in her job as a midwife, helps women every day achieve their dream of motherhood - all while having faced unbelievable challenges on her own journey to motherhood. 11 rounds of IVF and the tragic loss of two babies. Sophie shares with us what we all NEED to know, because even if we haven't experienced loss or IVF or miscarriage ourselves then we know someone who has.It is so easy to say completely the wrong thing, so please share this episode. This education just isn't out there, but we can get it out there so please share this episode with at least three people in your life if you think they need to know what Sophie shares with us here.Special thanks to our sponsor AG1Visit https://drinkAG1.com/MOTHERKIND to get a FREE year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase.Continue the ConversationCome engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskeyJoin our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 18, 2023 • 11min
MOMENT | The SECRET to thriving as a dual-career couple with professor Jennifer Petriglieri
Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week, I’m talking to Jennifer Petriglieri, a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD. Jennifer studied the successful relationships of people who both had successful careers, and what she found was absolutely fascinating.Listen to this moment episode to find out the secret to thriving as a dual-working couple. I hope you enjoy this moment episode.As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices


