MOMENT | Want to be ambitious and present? Listen to this - with Alexi Panos

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. In this moment, Alexi explores the tension many of us feel as mothers between ambition and family. She unpacks how the drive to achieve can be tied to ego and identity, and how true purpose can be found in the present moment—whether leading a room or at home with your children—by honouring both service and what matters most: family. For more powerful insights from Alexi Panos, listen to the full episode here. 5 Minute Motherkind⁠⁠: 5 minutes a day for 21 days to calm, regulation and joy 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 at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. 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	Hi everyone. Welcome to this mother kind moment with me your host Zoe Blaskey. This is your place on a Monday for calm connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the crazy week ahead. This week's moment is with the incredible Alexi Panos. She is a master
0:23.4	coach and trainer. She has achieved incredible things in her career. And she's also a mama four.
0:30.8	So in this clip, I ask her about the ambition, presence, tension that she feels. It is something I think about all the time. How do I be in the
0:42.3	world and in their world? I hope this answer gives you some food for thought to ask yourself,
0:49.6	what does this look like for you? How do you grapple with this for yourself? Please let me know on
0:56.2	Instagram or DM me or email me. Your thoughts on this is something I think about constantly.
1:01.6	So I'd love to know your thoughts too. Here it is. How do you hold that tension between that
1:09.1	part of you that so wants to show up and do more and serve more and the part of you that actually has this value, which is that family comes first?
1:19.5	Where do you put that tension?
1:21.7	Is it a tension for you?
1:23.7	And how do you unpack that for yourself?
1:26.5	That's such a great question.
1:27.9	And I feel like I'm still learning.
1:29.7	But one thing that helps me with that gap is recognizing that a big part, not all of it,
1:36.4	but a big part of my desire to be successful on that drive and that motivating force that has
1:42.9	been a part of my identity for my entire life.
1:45.7	I'm really recognizing how rooted in the ego it is.
1:49.0	Not that it's bad.
1:50.0	Not that I'm like, oh, I want to be serving in order to be somebody.
1:53.7	But my ego feels on purpose when I'm in service.
1:58.2	It feels on purpose.
1:59.3	It feels celebrated. It feels amazing. It feels like,
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