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🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In this episode, I’m unpacking the question that blew up on Instagram: Does motherhood actually make you happier?
I invited women—mums and non-mums—to ask and answer real questions with zero pressure, no filters, and no sugar-coating. This is the honest side of motherhood you don’t always see online.
We’re talking about identity, fulfilment, guilt, joy, sacrifice, and everything in between. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like on the other side of becoming a mother—or if you’re deep in it right now and need to feel less alone—this conversation is for you.
Let’s go there.
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0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, the few of you, the women, yours truly. I am, it's end of May, almost end of May. It's almost |
0:23.4 | my son's fifth birthday. What? So Mother's Day, his fifth birthday, it's all coming up. I'm |
0:31.4 | sitting in my car. I am going for a dinner with a, as people say, dear friend of mine, it makes |
0:37.0 | that person sound very adorable, a dear friend of mine, it makes that person sound very |
0:38.4 | adorable, a dear friend of mine. And I wanted to have a conversation about a post that |
0:43.2 | really went off on social media. And I think it's a really good conversation. And as opposed to |
0:49.8 | me answering your questions on the post, I am going to talk you through my thoughts and patterns as they |
0:55.0 | come in here. The post was titled, Thusley, Everyone who isn't a mum, ask a question below, and only |
1:04.9 | mum's answer. No filters, no pressure, just real questions, ready, go. |
1:11.9 | And there is a photo of me and my daughter, |
1:14.3 | the chaos that is childhood and life and all of those good things. |
1:19.9 | And I wanted to look through the top comments. |
1:23.7 | I haven't seen every single one yet and give you my two cents |
1:27.0 | because I think we always try and |
1:31.0 | separate a woman's success in her motherhood or a woman's looking good in her motherhood or woman's |
1:37.6 | journey in her motherhood. The way I grew up and what really empowered me and what I am trying |
1:41.8 | to pass on to you is that the role of motherhood |
1:44.6 | can be incorporated into everything that you desire and wish it cannot happen at the same |
1:50.2 | time but it can be amazing. So that further ado, let's hop in to the things that they have |
1:55.8 | asked. Do you look down on us the people who don't have kids? And this was the most popular comment. |
2:04.1 | And of course, most of the 86 answers are, no, we do not look down on you. However, the interesting |
2:12.2 | thing about it is, is that the fact that it's the most popular means that it resonated with the women who |
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