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.
Episodes
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Jul 13, 2023 • 54min
How to cope when you're not coping with Nurtured First (Prev. Our Mamma Village)
We have such a good episode for you today, it’s with Jess founder of Nurtured First (formally known as Our Mama Village).She is a registered psychotherapist and a mum of three, and in this episode, she shares:- How hard she found it going from two to three children- How to cope when you're not coping- What to do when we just feelI think you'll love this one, and if you do, please send it to anyone going through that transition in your life right now, maybe from one to two children or two to three or maybe even three to four. Let’s help mothers feel less alone and feel more normal and validated.Special thanks to our sponsorsAthletic 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
Jul 10, 2023 • 11min
MOMENT | The power of good gut health and how to achieve it with Dr Megan Rossi
Welcome to this week's moment episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening.This week features a clip from my episode with Dr. Megan Rossi, who is a registered dietician with an award-winning PhD in gut health. A leading Research Fellow at King’s College London. We talk about gut health and how your family's microbiome is shaped. Do you know the importance of your gut health? I hope this episode answers that for you. Special thanks to our sponsorAthletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for 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 by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 7, 2023 • 30min
Motherkind community: Debra'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.I'm chatting to Debra this week, who shares how she was blindsided by motherhood and how she overcame anxiety and intrusive thoughts to feel quite differently today. **Trigger warning** If you think hearing about intrusive thoughts is more harmful to you than helpful, please skip this one.---I really hope you love this new format, and if you’d like to come on the podcast, then please email: angie@motherkind.co with your story.Debra can be found on Instagram @roar_birthing---Special thanks to our sponsorAthletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for 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 by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jul 6, 2023 • 47min
The Postpartum Doctor: why a hustle mindset will break you in motherhood and what to do instead
Dr Serena Rosa, a women's health nurse practitioner and founder of postpartum Dr, discusses the pressures on mothers, brain changes in motherhood, balancing responsibilities, the importance of support, radical self-love, changing the hustle mindset, and acknowledging frustrations and joys of motherhood.
Jul 3, 2023 • 10min
MOMENT | How to grieve and feel your feelings in the midst of motherhood demands with Lisa Olivera
Welcome to this week's moment episode, where we chat with Lisa Olivera. She is an author, therapist and mum. Her work centres around radical acceptance, cultivating compassion, and integrating our stories and full humanity.Lisa answers my question of how do you still grieve and do your healing work during the busyness and intensity of motherhood? I hope you love it. Special thanks to our sponsorAthletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for 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 by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 30, 2023 • 29min
Motherkind community | Jenny'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. I'm chatting to Jenny this week, who shares why she wishes ALL mothers could be told about matrescence at their first midwife appointment. ---I really hope you love this new format, and if you’d like to come on the podcast, then please email: angie@motherkind.co with your story.---Special thanks to our sponsorAthletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for 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 by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 29, 2023 • 56min
Every mother needs to hear these words with Donna Lancaster
***Trigger Warning*** We discuss graphic intrusive thoughts, so if hearing that experience might be more harmful than connecting for you, please skip that bit. It's about 10 minutes in. This week we have the incredible Donna Lancaster back on the show. You love her first episode, so I hope you'll love this one even more.Donna 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. This is one of those episodes it's going to make you think, it's going to make you cry, and it's going to put a lot in perspective. Donna talks about:- Forgiving herself for how she was in the early years of her children's lives.- How much she struggled in those early days, including experiencing some pretty graphic intrusive thoughts- How allowing herself to grieve unlocked so much healing and forgiveness I'm so excited for you to hear this one. Please share this episode with any mums you know who might be struggling and need Donna's wise, warm words of hope and compassion.----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
Jun 26, 2023 • 7min
MOMENT | Work-Life balance is a myth, try this instead with Tobi Asare
This is an incredible episode with Tobi Asare about re-thinking work-life balance. Tobi is an author, mum of two, speaker and founder of My Bump Pay, an online platform to help women smash the glass ceiling with a baby on the way and beyond. Her debut book The Blend, released in March 2023 is a guide to navigating a successful career whilst raising a family.Come 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
Jun 23, 2023 • 29min
Motherkind community: Kelly'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 we chatted to Kelly. Kelly is a mum of two, and she shares in this episode:- How challenging she found the transition to motherhood- How perfectionist and critical she was self- How when she connected to her own childhood to what was going on for her when she was younger that she was able to transform everything in her motherhoodKelly is incredibly honest in this episode, and I appreciate her vulnerability.Kelly is also really special to Motherkind, as I coached Kelly a few years ago, and she found the experience so transformative that she quit her corporate job and retrained as a coach herself. Now Kelly is the first-ever Morhwekind associate coach, which is really exciting. You can book with her here: https://www.motherkind.co/kelly-schedule-1-1_______Thank you so much for your gorgeous feedback on our first-ever episode last week with Amy. So many of you contacted me to say you love hearing from Amy.You felt seen, you felt validated, less alone and more connected, and that is exactly my intention with this episode.I really hope you love this new format, and if you’d like to come on the podcast, then please email: angie@motherkind.co with your story. Special thanks to our sponsorAthletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for 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 by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 22, 2023 • 42min
Matrescence: the word we all need with Lucy Jones
Welcome to this week’s episode with Lucy Jones. She is an investigative journalist, award-winning author and has just written a new book called Matrescence.Matresence is one of my favourite words and subjects ever. It describes the process of becoming a mother - the confusing discombobulating cocktail of emotions that happens when we transition from woman to mother. All the physical, emotional and spiritual changes. A bit like the transition from teenager to adult.Listen to hear about:- What matresence means and its anthropological roots- Our position as a mother in today’s society and how it’s geared to be against mothers- Why we need more support in society and Lucy’s thoughts on how we can receive thatIf only all mothers knew this word, I think we would have found it so much easier to be kind to ourselves, knowing it’s meant to be a bumpy journey.-Special thanks to our sponsorsAthletic 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
