Bre Tiessi & Katherine Ryan on Motherhood: "It's OK Not to Be OK!" | We're Talking Boss Mums

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Relationships, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Paul sits down with two incredible women, Katherine Ryan and Bre Tiessi, for an honest and vulnerable conversation about motherhood, identity, and navigating personal transformations. They dive into the realities of having children, managing relationships, and the raw moments that come with becoming a mother. ◽️ Katherine Ryan reflects on having her first child at a young age ‘on purpose,’ her journey through the world of TV with Campus, and whether she’ll have more children in the future ◽️ Katherine opens up about why she and Bobby schedule sex to maintain their connection amidst their busy lives ◽️ Bre hares her deeply personal experience of childbirth and the mental health challenges of postpartum depression ◽️ Bre talks about how motherhood has reshaped her, offering insight into the personal growth that comes from this life-changing experience. (00:00) Intro (00:13) Katherine Having Her First Child at a Young Age 'On Purpose' (06:40) Katherine's First TV Show 'Campus' (08:45) Will Katherine Have More Children? (10:18) Why Katherine and Bobby Schedule Sex (12:31) The Average Amount People Have Sex (13:54) Love Better Tour (14:58) Bre's Experience of Childbirth (19:13) Bre's Experience of Postpartum Depression (24:14) How Did Motherhood Change Bre? Get Your Tickets to the Love Better Tour: https://bit.ly/lovebetter-YT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I very early fell pregnant with my daughter Violet on purpose, which people disbelieve, just wanted to have her. I found out that I had lupus, which is a drag, and I thought at the time I might not be able to have kids, and so I better have kids right now. So even though my partner was maybe not the perfect partner, I was like, oh, if we haven't broken up by now, we never will. I'll stick with him and I'll have this baby with him. And he was
0:37.6	keen. He was older than me anyway. He's like, yeah, let's have a baby. Maybe men don't think these things through as much. And so I had my daughter. So that was a little bit of an obstacle early in my career. Before I was getting paid, I was already a mom to like a very young baby. So before you would say you started your proper
0:54.7	comedy career.
0:56.5	You had a baby.
0:57.3	Yeah.
0:57.8	But you just, to like a very young baby. So before you would say you started your proper comedy career, you had a baby.
0:57.3	Yeah.
0:57.8	But you just said something, now I have to spend a second.
1:00.3	Oh, no, man, yeah.
1:01.6	You said many people don't believe that I intentionally.
1:05.3	So what do you think people believe?
1:07.6	She seems like an accident because I became a single mother very quickly. I was younger
1:13.5	than most people now start their families. You started your family young. Well, you got married
1:18.9	young. Yeah. Yeah, early 20s. Yeah. And then I had my daughter when I was 24. And certainly in
1:25.1	that community, my friends are having babies now.
1:28.4	Yes.
1:28.9	And we're 40.
1:29.6	Yes.
1:30.1	So my daughter's babysitting, their babies.
1:33.5	And I was young to have a baby, and especially in my situation.
1:36.5	I mean, it's a bad idea.
1:37.3	I was in a foreign country, 3,000 miles away from anyone who loved me.
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