166: How To Be A Mother Without Losing Yourself, Your Femininity, Or Your Ambition
BEING HER with Margarita Nazarenko
Margarita Nazarenko
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever quietly wondered if motherhood means losing yourself?
Your identity, ambition, femininity, relationship, peace, dreams.
In this deeply honest episode, we're talking about motherhood, mum guilt, burnout, identity loss, feminine energy, ambition, relationships after kids, and how to raise children without completely abandoning yourself in the process.
Because somewhere along the way, women were sold the idea that being a "good mother" means self-sacrifice, exhaustion, over-functioning, and quietly disappearing.
I disagree.
In this episode, I'm sharing my honest thoughts on:
- how to be a present mother without losing your identity
- mum guilt and why it can quietly run your life
- balancing motherhood, business, ambition, and family
- feminine energy after children
- why burnout is not a badge of honour
- over-functioning, resentment, and emotional exhaustion
- relationships after children and why standards matter more, not less
- asking for help, support systems, and why support is not failure
- how to stay connected to yourself while raising young children
- why your children benefit from a mother who is emotionally regulated,
fulfilled, and alive
If you've ever felt overwhelmed as a mother, guilty for wanting more, scared of losing yourself after kids, emotionally exhausted from doing everything, anxious about balancing motherhood and ambition, or like becoming a mother meant losing the woman you used to be.. this episode is for you.
Motherhood should expand you. Not erase you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful, aspiring business women, |
| 0:02.6 | human, human, |
| 0:03.1 | you know, |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, my beautiful aspiring business women, aspiring mothers, |
| 0:13.7 | current mothers and current business women alike. |
| 0:16.2 | I was going back and forth on the title of this year episode, |
| 0:20.0 | because there are several options on |
| 0:23.0 | what we could title it. It could be about how I built a brand whilst not losing myself to |
| 0:28.1 | motherhood, how to not lose yourself to motherhood full stop. There are many iterations of what this |
| 0:34.1 | could be and I hopped off a call yesterday with my podcast network and we were talking |
| 0:39.8 | about my podcast where it's going where we're growing my new audiences hello by the way |
| 0:45.8 | don't love the word audiences but listeners who lend me their precious gorgeous ear they lend me that |
| 0:52.9 | ear and they're growing with me. We are not centering men as |
| 0:57.4 | much anymore. In fact, we're decentering men. Let that doorknob hit them with the good lord, |
| 1:03.1 | split them. We do not need them around. As in I love men. I have a son, I've got a husband, |
| 1:07.5 | love them. We have done three years of getting unbothered which we now fully have |
| 1:13.8 | embraced along with said book that has just come out i have some copies here for you i've got the |
| 1:19.4 | gorgeous pink and the beautiful yellow if you guys pre-order you will be the first to get them my |
| 1:26.2 | publisher is trying to estimate how many people |
| 1:28.2 | will want copies. And if you understand book publishing, as they print according to demand, |
| 1:33.4 | so if you pre-order from the link in the bio below, wherever you're listening or watching, |
| 1:39.8 | you will get your hot little hands, your hot little sexy little hands onto a copy first because |
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