Friday Q&A on Navigating Children Through Grief with Esther Marshall
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
**Trigger Warning - In this episode we discuss suicide in depth.**
With her series of books looking to make emotional wellbeing a normal part of childhood, author and CEO of Sophie Says, Esther Marshall tells her story to Zoe & Georgia, as well as answers all your questions on how to navigate the rollercoaster that is grief with our children.
Following the death of her sister, Esther has been on a mission to make the mental health of kids today her life's work! Today's chat is deeply emotional, powerful and one which will hopefully help someone who needs it.
You can buy Esther's 'Sophie Says' books here and follow her on Instagram @sophiesaysofficial
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Made by Mommas the podcast. I'm Zoe Hardman and I'm Georgia Dayton. |
| 0:05.2 | And this is your parenting safe space where no conversation is off limits. With five kids between |
| 0:10.8 | G and I, we have seen a lot. We really have. Each week we'll be joined by some famous faces and |
| 0:16.0 | experts and we'll chat about the brands and products that have saved us along the way. |
| 0:20.2 | In short, |
| 0:25.6 | 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 |
| 0:30.8 | if you leave a rating and a review. You can also find us in Instagram. We're on at Made by Mummers. |
| 0:35.6 | But for now, George, should we get into it? |
| 0:38.5 | It's probably safe to say that we spend 90% of our time worrying about our kids, |
| 0:45.6 | praying and wishing that they are absolutely okay, worrying if they're not, |
| 0:49.4 | thinking that they might not be. I mean, it's a bit of a mind filled back and forth in our mind. |
| 0:53.4 | So we really |
| 0:54.2 | wanted to get somebody on the podcast today who is a total, what's the way, expert in her field, |
| 1:01.0 | but has lived and slept and breathed the whole experience. She is a children's author. She is |
| 1:06.1 | founder of Sophie Says. She is a mental health advocate. It is Esther Marshall. |
| 1:10.7 | Yay. Thank you so much for having me |
| 1:13.4 | it's so lovely for you to be here thank you i really appreciate you you you sent such a beautiful |
| 1:17.5 | email back when we were first chatting and you said that you've listened to the podcast for a really |
| 1:22.3 | long time and we actually received your books years ago years ago We were reading them to our kids for a really long time. |
| 1:29.1 | So it's lovely to have you sitting here. |
| 1:30.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
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