Dolly Jones on Returning to Work After a Baby
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week, Georgia sits down with Dolly Jones, former editor of Vogue.com and author of Leaving the Ladder Down, who interviewed over 200 women across every profession to find out how they really navigate working parenthood.
From the unspoken rules of not mentioning your kids at work, to the guilt that follows you everywhere and the practical childcare logistics nobody warns you about - this is the conversation you wish someone had with you before you went back.
Dolly also gets into why we judge each other so harshly at the school gate (spoiler: we're imagining it), the myth of the "perfect" return to work and the one piece of advice that takes the fear away entirely.
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| 0:00.0 | Zoe and Georgia will be here in just a moment. After this episode, you should get You Don't |
| 0:06.8 | Know You're Born lined up to play next. On their recent episode, Brooke Vincent and Wingman |
| 0:12.0 | are joined by Sophie, a mum of three, including a daughter who's autistic. She opens up about |
| 0:18.0 | her family's journey, from navigating diagnosis to battling for a place at Ascend School and shares the reality of parenting children with very different needs. |
| 0:27.5 | So when this episode of Made by Mommas is done, search for you don't know you're born and get it lined up to play next. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to Made by Mommas the podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Zoe Hardman. |
| 0:39.8 | And I'm Georgia Dayton. |
| 0:40.9 | And this is your parenting safe space where no conversation is off limits. |
| 0:45.5 | With five kids between G and I, we have seen a lot. |
| 0:48.4 | We really have. |
| 0:49.5 | Each week, we'll be joined by some famous faces and experts. |
| 0:52.6 | And we'll chat about the brands and products that have saved us along the way. In short, we're the parenting podcast for you. Before we get started, hit subscribe or follow, so you're the first to know when each episode lands. And they're on Tuesdays and Fridays. And it really helps if you leave a rating and a review. You can also find us in Instagram. We're on at Made by Mummers. |
| 1:11.4 | But for now, George, should we get into it? |
| 1:17.2 | So, nice of you to join us. |
| 1:21.1 | How rude. |
| 1:22.3 | This is the level of bullying and work toxicity |
| 1:25.0 | that I have to deal with from Georgia, everyone. |
| 1:28.5 | There's no HR department here. |
| 1:31.2 | Hold on, who's head of HR in Maple Lombers? |
| 1:33.6 | Oh, I think it'd be you. |
| 1:34.8 | Oh, it's me. |
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