Anna Whitehouse on Divorce, Burnout and Rebuilding

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Welcome to Motherkind, proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition’s women’s supplements. This is the show that takes you by the hand and helps you navigate the wild ride that is modern motherhood. Every week, I speak with incredible experts and thinkers to bring you fresh ideas, tools, and inspiration to support your life as a mother — from career and relationships to mental health and healing. This week’s guest is the powerhouse Anna Whitehouse, aka Mother Pukka — mum of three, author, presenter, and tireless campaigner for flexible and inclusive working. This conversation will move you deeply. It’s emotional, real, and empowering. Anna shares how she knew it was time to leave her marriage, what really happens when life unravels, and how she’s rebuilding with honesty and courage. We also talk about the lost generation of women — those sidelined and ignored — and how we can channel that pain into collective change. It’s a powerful, galvanising listen that will leave you inspired to stand taller and speak louder. Before you dive in, don’t forget to subscribe to Motherkind — it helps more mothers find the show and keeps our community growing. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Sign up to GoHenry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids' money smarts from age 6 -18. Sign up today at gohenry.com/motherkind and you'll get a free £5 pocket money to help your kids grow their money smart. Start planning your next family getaway with The Family Suite. Explore the full collection now at thefamilysuite.co.uk and discover luxury hotels around the world that truly welcome families, without compromise. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkindContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of Motherkind. We are proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition's Women's Supplements.
0:13.2	I am your host, Zoe Blaskey, and this is the show that is going to grab you by the hand and be your guide through the wild ride that is modern motherhood. Every week,
0:21.6	I bring you incredible experts and thinkers to give us new ideas, new tools, new support,
0:27.2	new inspiration for our lives as mothers. We span everything from career to relationships,
0:32.8	to mental health and healing, to parenting. And I am very happy that you are here. I have a powerhouse
0:39.5	guest today, Anna Whitehouse, aka Motherpucker. She is a mum of three, an author, a presenter.
0:45.2	And of course is a tireless advocate and activist for flexible and inclusive working. This is an
0:53.1	incredible episode. It is going to make you laugh. It's probably
0:57.2	going to make you cry, but it is definitely going to leave you feeling energized, galvanised and very,
1:04.0	very seen. We talk about how Anna knew it was time to leave her first marriage, the reality
1:09.2	of divorce, and what happy endings really are,
1:12.8	not in the Disney way that we have been sold and packaged. We talk about the lost generation
1:18.2	of women, sidelined and ignored just for having a baby and how Anna needs us all to galvanise,
1:26.1	to change the systems, which quite frankly do not work anymore.
1:31.9	Before we get on to the episode, can you do me a quick favour? Make sure you subscribe to the podcast.
1:36.7	The mental load is high enough. So you want Motherkind to just be there in your library, ready to go.
1:42.2	You will get a notification when there is a new episode
1:44.6	live so you don't have to search. We don't want to add that to your already too long list.
1:50.1	It helps you and it helps me because the more subscribers we get, the bigger and the better
1:54.7	we can make the show. And quite frankly, I love this job. So help me keep growing and growing
2:00.4	the podcast. Here is the
2:01.9	episode with Anna. I hope you love it. This episode is brought to you by the Family Suite,
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