How to build confidence + believe in yourself again (even when you’re knackered)

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Motherhood didn’t make you lose your confidence - it buried it under the mental load. In this powerful episode, I’m sharing the five exact steps I used to rebuild my confidence from the ground up after becoming a mum. These are simple, practical tools you can use even if you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and only have seven minutes a day to yourself. Because here’s the truth no one tells us: becoming a mother lowers your confidence and self-belief for up to three years. And yet… we’re never prepared for it. We’re never told why it happens. We’re certainly never shown how to rebuild ourselves from the inside out. In this conversation, you’ll learn: The surprising reason confidence drops in motherhood How to quiet your inner critic The truth about self-worth How to stop comparison spirals Why celebrating tiny wins matters more than big achievements Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable You can listen to the Dr Nicole Le Pera episode that Zoe references here: How to heal yourself with Dr Nicole Le Pera Remember to subscribe to Motherkind — it helps more mothers find the show and keeps our community growing. Feeling different since becoming a mother? Get clarity on who you’re becoming now and download your FREE Matrescence Cheat Sheet Connect with Zoe: Follow Zoe on Instagram Get Zoe’s Sunday Times bestselling book, 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ This Motherkind episode is sponsored by: Headline sponsor 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. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome to Mother Kind. It is me your host Zoe. This is the show about you, the woman behind the mother. And we are proudly sponsored by World Nutrition's Women's Supplements. So I found some research last week that shows that becoming a mother lowers your confidence
0:22.7	and self-belief for up to three years. And no one tells us this. No one talks about it. No one
0:28.7	prepares us for it. But I'm not here to tell you the problem. Today, I want to talk to you about
0:34.3	the solution, how in five simple steps you can rebuild your confidence quickly,
0:38.9	even when you're exhausted, even when you're overwhelmed, and you have about seven minutes a day to
0:44.4	yourself. So today I'm going to give you the five exact steps that I took to rebuild my confidence
0:49.0	from honestly on the floor in those early years to levels now that I never imagined. So if you are
0:57.0	here thinking, I used to feel confident, where the hell did that go? You are in the right place.
1:02.8	And I am really glad that you are here. I'd like to take this moment to thank our headline sponsor, Wild Nutrition,
1:15.2	who are offering Motherkind listeners 50% off for three months. I'm so excited to tell you about
1:21.0	the new range of children's gummies. Now, I have two quite picky eaters, so I need to make sure
1:26.4	they are hitting their nutrient levels
1:28.3	for healthy mind and body development. And this is where wild nutrition's new children's
1:33.9	gummies can help. The children's gummies range is made with 96% real fruit. There's no refined
1:39.6	sugars or sweeteners. There's no artificial colours or preservatives and they are 100% vegan.
1:45.3	We absolutely love the vitamin D gummies, the biotic gummies and the aschaganda gummies. I know how much of a
1:51.0	difference while nutrition has made in my motherhood journey and I want you to experience it too.
1:56.5	That is why they're giving Motherkind listeners an exclusive 50% off for three months and a free
2:02.6	personal consultation with a nutritional therapist. Just go to wildnutrition.com forward slash
2:08.4	motherkind to get started. That's wildnutrition.com forward slash motherkind so you can feel
2:13.6	the difference yourselves. Find balance. Stay and sees apply okay let's get into it
2:22.3	confidence matters in motherhood more than anyone admits because real confidence it's not loud
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