Louise Minchin on the motherhood penalty and maternal fearlessness

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode revered broadcaster Louise Minchin opens up about facing her fears. From swimming with sharks to simply navigating motherhood in an industry set up for mothers to fail, she speaks open-heartedly about how to raise girls - and boys - to be resilient in a world that’s, well, unequal.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:09.7	You ready?
0:15.9	Oh yes.
0:17.1	Born so.
0:18.4	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker. I'm Anna Whitehouse, the founder of
0:22.6	Motherpucker and I'm joined by my best mate, Polly, Hazelwood, in the house. Hello.
0:29.2	Oh, we didn't get an ooioi, Savaloy. I was going to do that, but you just got hello this week.
0:34.1	So coming up on the show, we have the absolutely brilliant broadcaster Louise Minchin,
0:38.8	who is going to be talking about fearlessness in 2023.
0:43.3	How to face those fears and live those dreams.
0:46.5	I think that's a really bad O'Neill quote from 1997.
0:50.4	I think it might be.
0:51.4	She can do better than that.
0:52.7	But yes, listening.
0:53.5	She's absolutely astonishing.
0:55.4	But before we crack on with that, this week, it's been something else, hasn't it, Paul?
1:01.0	Oh, yes.
1:02.2	It's been something else.
1:03.6	So if you haven't listened to our latest Quiki, which is where Polly and I go into the dark depths of online dating.
1:11.5	We gave it a whirl for seven days just to see if the grass was indeed greener.
1:15.9	It was all very journalistic. It was all above board. Husbands fully aware.
1:19.9	And we also were very clear to the men we were talking to that this was a journalistic exercise.
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