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MOMENT | Motherhood Isn’t the End of Your Career — It Might Be the Beginning

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt the pull to do something different with your career and then immediately talked yourself out of it with it’s too risky, I need a safe job, or this isn’t the season – this short episode is for you. In this powerful Motherkind Moment, from Zoe’s conversation with Debbie Wosskow OBE, they talk honestly about risk, motherhood, and why so many women feel stuck at the edge of change. Debbie shares the reality of building a business with young children, why most women start later than we think, and a simple, compassionate way to meet fear and self-doubt without letting them stop you – reminding us that you don’t need certainty to begin. In this Moment, you’ll hear: Why feeling scared is a natural part of change – not a sign you’re doing it wrong How motherhood reshapes your relationship with risk and can actually strengthen your confidence A simple mindset shift to manage fear and start before you feel ready If you’re in the early stages of motherhood and quietly wondering whether there might be another way of working for you, this is your reminder that you’re not behind, you’re not failing, and you don’t need to have it all figured out. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is take the first small step. If you liked this moment, listen to the full episode: Work Series: How to Finally Find Your Self-Belief and Just Start, with Debbie Wosskow Remember to subscribe to Motherkind — it helps more mothers find the show and keeps our community growing. Ready to feel like yourself again? 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it is Zoe here. Welcome, welcome. It's Monday, which means it's Motherkind moment

0:13.2

day, your little shot of inspiration on a Monday. Today is with Debbie Wasco, OBE. She's an incredible

0:19.9

entrepreneur. She founded and sold her business for, wait for it, $54 million when she had just become a single mother to her one and three-year-old.

0:30.2

And there is a line in this moment that I really want you to hear. And it's this. We do our best work as women when our backs are against the wall. And that really

0:40.1

struck me as true and quite motivating. When I look at the businesses, the career moves, the big

0:46.4

risk and the choosing a different way that I see in our community, it often comes from a moment

0:52.9

of our backs being against the wall, a massive

0:55.1

constraint like childcare or a financial constraint or a divorce or a big move or grief.

1:00.6

Whatever it is, I've witnessed that it's those big, hard things that often lead us to

1:07.3

think, F it, and we go for it. So I hope that you like this little shop inspiration.

1:13.2

Make sure you subscribe so you never miss one of these little Monday moments ever again.

1:18.4

And I will see you this Thursday for another incredible full episode of Motherkind.

1:24.3

And remember, I am right here cheering you on.

1:37.1

This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Hiring isn't just about finding someone willing to take the job. I need the right person with the right background who can move my business

1:42.1

forward and if I wanted candidates who match what I'm looking

1:44.6

for, I'd trust Indeed sponsored jobs. I was hiring a new social media management recently and I was

1:50.4

very, very specific on Indeed about what I was looking for, not just social media manager,

1:56.5

but someone specifically who's grown a podcast using Instagram.

2:03.0

And here's the thing with Indeed sponsored jobs.

2:06.0

I'd get people who actually fit that description.

2:09.8

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2:14.1

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