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I am very excited to welcome you back to these community episodes of Motherkind.

Honestly, it is one of my favourite parts of the podcast

is getting to chat to you, our community. And I'm so excited that we are back with another

episode after the summer break. This week, we chat to ZNAT. We talk about breaking cultural

norms, not doing it all. And when the village doesn't exist,

building it for yourself. I hope you love it. Here it is. Ozy, I'm so thrilled that you are

joining us for this community episode of the Motherkind podcast.

It feels like such a privilege that I get to speak to so many different listeners with so many different backgrounds and stories and hear a little bit about your story in motherhood and

maybe hopefully how Motherkind has supported that. So why don't you start by just telling

us a little bit about yourself,

about your children and where you are? So I'm parent to two children. One has special needs.

He's hearing impaired and he has ADHD. And the other one, the younger one, she has no identified special needs. So parenting was a pretty intense experience from the

get-go for me. In addition to that, I had the nuclear family set up. We lived in a big city.

My family weren't around. Extended family weren't around. In-laws weren't around. So I had

connections, friends that I'd made,

but I didn't have much support in the beginning. And whereabouts are you in the country?

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