How to Turn Your Hardest Motherhood Struggles Into a Career With Purpose with Michelle Kennedy

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week’s episode is with an incredible woman, Michelle Kennedy, founder of Peanut, and she has a new book out called “It Takes a Village” Michelle and I unpack our experiences of new motherhood, and how it was the loneliness in the early years that felt the most jarring to our pre-motherhood selves. Michelle gives us some incredibly practical tips for how she manages a family + a business, what her non-negotiables are, and what she got very, very wrong when she first went back to work. You are going to take so much away from this episode - here it is. You can purchase your own copy of Michelle’s book here Please make sure you subscribe - the mental load is high enough as it is, so when you subscribe, you don’t even need to think about finding the new Motherkind episode - it’s just waiting for you - so it helps you and it helps me, as the more subscribers we get, the better and better the show can become. 5 Minute Motherkind: 21 days, 5 minutes a day to become your calmest, happiest self. Get the first 3 days FREE here 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 and a free personal consultation with a nutritional therapist 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. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue 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 Motherkind. We are proudly sponsored by wild nutrition's women's supplements. I am your
0:13.9	host, Zoe Blaskey, and this is the show that is going to grab you by the hand and be your guide
0:18.7	through the wild ride that is modern motherhood.
0:21.8	Every week I bring you world leading experts and thinkers to give us new ideas, new tools,
0:26.8	new support, new inspiration for our lives as mothers.
0:30.0	We span everything here from work to relationships to mental health and healing to parenting.
0:35.8	And I am very happy that you are here. This week's
0:38.7	episode is with an incredible woman called Michelle Kennedy. She is the founder of Peanut and she
0:43.9	recently has a new book out called It Takes a Village. Michelle and I unpack our experiences of new
0:49.9	motherhood, how it was the loneliness in the early years that felt the most jarring to our pre-muddlehood
0:56.6	selves. Michelle gives us some incredibly practical tips for how she manages a family and a business,
1:02.8	what her non-negotiables are and what she got very, very wrong when she first went back to work.
1:09.8	Before we jump into it, a quick ask from me, please make
1:12.6	sure you subscribe. The mental load is high enough as it is. So when you subscribe, you don't even
1:17.6	need to think about finding the latest episode of Motherkind. It is just there in your app,
1:23.4	wherever you listen to this podcast. It's just waiting for you. So it helps you. And it helps me
1:28.1	because the more subscribers we get, the bigger and better guests we can get and the bigger and
1:32.4	better we can make the show. So please do make sure you hit that subscribe button. You are going
1:38.3	to take so much away from this week's episode. Here it is. I'd like to take this moment to thank our headline sponsor,
1:48.8	Wild Nutrition, who are offering Motherkind listeners 50% off for three months. I'm so excited to tell
1:55.2	you about the new range of children's gummies. Now, I have two quite picky eaters, so I need to
2:00.5	make sure they are hitting
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