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Happy Mum Happy Baby

Olivia Rubin on embracing colour, slowing down, and balancing motherhood and business

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Gi is joined by fashion designer and queen of colour Olivia Rubin!


Olivia talks about balancing the success of her growing business with parenting her two daughters, and tells Gi why she's decided to scale things back.


Olivia also opens up about struggling mentally after the birth of her first child. As postnatal mental health was rarely spoken about, Olivia admits at the time she didn't know what she was experiencing,


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0:00.0

Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby.

0:04.0

When I look back on those photos of myself, it's almost like the exterior showing how I felt inside.

0:11.0

I don't look like myself.

0:12.7

Black, dark clothes, I think afterwards becoming obsessive about my weight and manifesting other problems.

0:22.8

I didn't even think to myself, there must be a way out of this,

0:27.5

or surely I can talk to someone, or how can I help myself with these feelings?

0:33.5

I think I just plowed through and tried to ride the wave, but it did go on for a while.

0:39.6

I remember arriving back from New York, literally just dumping my cases and the girls were like,

0:44.6

oh, mommy, mommy and wanted to catch up and find out what I was doing and I wanted to hear about

0:49.2

their school things.

0:50.3

And I had to just go straight out because I'd already committed to doing a customer event.

0:55.8

And I opened my handbag and then in the bag was a note from my daughter and she's like,

1:00.3

Mommy, you're doing such a good job. It really like makes me like emotional. I think I think at

1:07.8

that point I was like something's got to give.

1:15.7

I'd like to take this moment to thank our friends at Wild Nutrition who are offering Happy Mum, Happy Baby listeners 50% off for three months. Now, as mums, we have a lot to juggle.

1:23.3

Newborns, work, family, and let's be honest, our own well-being tends to fall to the bottom of the list.

1:29.0

But you are not alone, and that's where wild nutrition comes in.

1:33.3

Their food-grown supplements are designed to work as hard as we do,

1:36.8

and I was really surprised to learn that 95% of the supplements on the market are synthetically derived.

1:43.0

But while nutrition believe that women deserve better,

1:46.4

their products are made from sustainably sourced whole food-bound nutrients that your body actually

1:50.9

recognises and absorbs better. No fillers or binders, just science-backed effective ingredients.

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