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Standard Issue Podcast

Katy O’Neill Gutierrez is Blazing a Trail

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In 2017 Katy O'Neill Gutierrez was keen to get outdoors with her newborn daughter. When she searched for local mum and baby groups that combined a love of the outdoors with meeting other new parents, she couldn't find anything that fit the bill, so she decided to start her own. What started as a few friends meeting in North London for a walk with their babies turned into Blaze Trails, which now has more than 60 groups across the UK meeting regularly. Jen chats to Katy about the significant impact of the organisation on the mental health of its members, combatting loneliness in new parents, barriers to getting active, and why equality can be so hard to come by in family life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Standard issue for all women.

0:02.2

Hello, Jen here to tell you about today's episode of the Standard Issue podcast.

0:07.1

But before I do, here's a little look at what else we've got coming up this week.

0:11.4

Tomorrow, it's rated or dated and Hannah has done me a solid by giving us a kids film to watch

0:16.8

with my darling daughter.

0:18.8

And this week it is babe.

0:21.0

But did Lyra end up a vegetarian or not?

0:23.5

Then on Thursday, Hannah's chatting to Christina Hardinge and Naomi Dissomitea about their

0:28.3

incredible new BBC Sounds, Lives Less Ordinary Podcast, Hold Fast.

0:33.0

And she was telling me about that on Friday.

0:35.1

And, oh my goodness, it sounds immense.

0:38.7

Then on Friday there is a brand new episode of Outside the Box and Mickey has been watching more Attenborough because of course she has.

0:46.1

But back to today.

0:48.0

In 2017, Katie O'Neill Gutierrez was keen to get outdoors with her newborn daughter.

0:53.2

But when she searched for local mum and baby groups combining her love of the outdoors with her newborn daughter, but when she searched for local

0:54.4

mum and baby groups combining her love of the outdoors with meeting other new parents, she

0:59.1

couldn't find anything that fit the bill. What started with just a few of her friends meeting in

1:03.2

North London for a walk, turned into blaze trails, a national organisation with more than 60 groups

1:09.4

across the UK meeting regularly. I caught up with

1:13.0

Katie to talk about the impacts of the organisation on the mental health of its members,

1:18.1

combating loneliness in new parents, barriers to caregivers, getting active, and why equality

1:23.8

can be so hard to come by in family life. What an absolutely legend, Katie, is. I

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