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#44 Anna Whitehouse (Founder of Mother Pukka) - How To Parent The Sh*t Out Of Life

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Anna Whitehouse is a journalist, editor and founder of the brilliant Mother Pukka empire. MotherPukka.co.uk is a blog for ‘people who happen to be parents’. Her Instagram feed has grown to 50,000 followers in a year. She’s previously worked at Stylist magazine, and at Time Out Amsterdam before writing for fashion labels such as Tommy Hilfiger. We talk about starting your own business, flexible working, sponsored content, the parenting Instagram community and the importance of looking after yourself and taking a break.

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0:00.0

Hello welcome back to Control Alt Delete, another very exciting guest.

0:04.3

Today's guest is Anna Whitehouse, journalist, editor and the founder of Mother Pucker.

0:08.9

co. UK. Mother Pucker is the destination online for people who happen to be parents.

0:14.0

Her Instagram feed has grown in just over a year to 50,000 followers in a year and it's an amazing community of people who love following Anna's

0:22.0

adventures and antics and highs and lows of being a

0:24.9

mum but just in general being a woman who is getting through life and laughing along

0:30.4

with the good and the bad times. She has previously worked at Stylus magazine at

0:34.9

Time Out in Amsterdam and she's also written for fashion labels such as Tommy Hillfigure.

0:40.3

We talk about starting your own business, flexible working and how to get behind the campaign that she started.

0:45.6

We talk about sponsored content, the parenting Instagram community and how that's evolved and the importance of looking after yourself and taking a break before it gets too much.

0:54.3

Hope you enjoy this episode and here it is.

0:57.0

Right, I'm with Anna White House Mother Pucker, who is wearing an amazing sequined skirt and

1:06.5

and, well, was wearing a velvet jacket and you're just fabulous.

1:10.7

I've just done she.

1:11.9

Welcome to my really fancy studio, aka my

1:16.4

covered. It's more like a sort of like a like endless torture chamber but I'm willing

1:21.1

to be taken in. I'm so sorry. And if it gets a bit hard, I can open the door.

1:25.9

So thanks so much for coming on the podcast.

1:28.9

You're the most perfect guest ever because obviously it's about life work social media and being your

1:36.4

own boss I don't think I'm doing any of those you're so doing all of those I'm

1:40.1

pressing buttons pop it I'm pressing you. You are.

1:43.0

Why I love you as someone who creates amazing stuff online is I kind of use you sometimes as an example

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