Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what

motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and

inspire so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I am joined by Dr. Emma Svamburg, aka

mummologist, an award-winning clinical psychologist speaker and campaigner with expertise in attachment

and perinatal psychology. Emma, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much.

It's lovely to be here.

Emma, there are so much that we could talk about

when I knew that I was going to be having this conversation with you today.

My mind was overflowing with topics, discussions, questions,

because I myself, I'm a mother and a stepmother. I love children. I love

parenting. I love everything that goes with it. So the chaos, the fun and what I call the

colorful life that is parenting. So if I go to a big family party or when I was a wedding last

year, I'm usually the one who's gathering the kids

together. I'm lining them up. Let's play a game. Let's play pretend. My friends always joke. They're

like, yes, Adrienne's here. She is the one who can match the kids energy and she can actually

tire them out. So yeah, they're always pleased to see me at a wedding. They're like, yes, she's going to take care of the kids. But parenting, of course, also presents many challenges.

So especially I think as you go through the different stages, so as your children get older,

they're all so unique, they have different interests, different temperaments, they each respond to different things.

And as parents, I think we play so many different roles. It's really,

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