Joeli Brearley on debilitating childcare costs and the motherhood penalty

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

She’s the founder of Pregnant Then Screwed and she’s a powerhouse when it comes to tackling the motherhood penalty. That’s 54,000 of us every year lopped out of the workforce for daring to have a baby. This episode digs deep on the current childcare crisis and how so many of us are getting into debt simply trying to function as a working family. Expect practical advice and an innate knowledge of what the flip is going on with a government that seems to think kids are a recreational side hustle. Cathartic for sure. Supportive, too.

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0:48.3	Uh... Global Player Original Podcast Welcome to this episode. I'm your host Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker, and I'm joined by my BFF, Polly Hazelwood, The Love of My Life,
0:55.5	over there.
0:56.2	Oh, the love of your life!
0:58.1	She's back in the game.
0:59.9	Cheers, that's nice, thank you.
1:02.4	So I got a bit merry with my family last week.
1:05.8	We had a nice Sunday dinner, and we sat down, I thought, let's play a game, love a game, not Monopoly, and sat down I thought let's play a game love a game uh not monopoly and uh sat down and was like
1:15.1	right let's go round to our left and say the things that we love about the person to our left did you
1:20.6	come up with this game yeah yeah of course you did go on go right go to your left I went around to my mom
1:26.0	and I was like you're just so kind-hearted and like, oh, God,
1:28.9	the way you envelop the family, it's lovely.
1:31.6	My dad said to my sister, I love how consistent you are.
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