The Work Series: my biggest mistakes and regrets - Zoe’s story

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to Motherkind’s special 8 part series on work, bringing together some of the leading voices on motherhood and work to support you wherever you’re at. This is a series that covers pausing paid work to embrace the work of raising a family, the structural challenges we face as mothers in the workplace, the 'motherhood penalty', how to return to work and so much more. And there was only one possible way to kick off this series: with Zoe sharing her story and her journey with paid work and motherhood for the past 9 years. In this episode Zoe shares her challenges, her tensions, what she’s got right AND wrong - from way before Motherkind to how she plans to navigate the future. 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 Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind This show is sponsored by FreePrints. Download the Free Prints app for iPhone and Android from the App store or Google Play or visit freeprints.co.uk.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	Hello, hello, I am so happy you are here. Welcome to this very exciting eight-part special work series of the Motherkind podcast. We are sponsored by World Nutrition Women's Supplements, and I am your
0:22.0	host, Zoe Blaskey. My intention with this special series is to bring together some of the leading
0:28.7	voices on motherhood and work to support you wherever you're at with motherhood and paid work.
0:35.9	We're going to cover pausing paid work
0:38.0	to embrace the work of raising a family.
0:40.3	The structural challenges we face as mothers in the workplace,
0:43.2	we're going to be talking about the motherhood penalty,
0:45.1	how to return to work,
0:46.7	confidence with the UK's leading confidence expert.
0:49.8	And then for the final episode of the eight-part series,
0:53.3	you are going to hear from five mothers,
0:55.9	all in completely different places in their work and careers about their challenges,
1:01.7	their trade-offs, what's working for them, what they wish was different. And I'm so excited
1:05.9	about that because it can feel like everyone else has it sorted. So this series is really going to show you that
1:12.3	you're not alone. Everyone is facing challenges you can't see. And it's going to be like glimpsing
1:17.7	behind the curtain of five working mothers lives. Here's what I know. Work and motherhood and your
1:25.7	relationship to both those things is deeply personal and circumstantial.
1:31.2	Every single one of you listening to this will have a different relationship with work.
1:35.2	Maybe you're in work and hating it.
1:37.7	Maybe you're in work, but really you want to do something else.
1:39.9	Maybe you're not in paid work and you want to be.
1:41.9	Maybe you're in paid work and you really don't want to be
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