Zoe Blaskey: Motherhood, careers and the conspiracy of 'having it all'
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
To help me unpack today's dilemma, I'm joined by another special guest: podcaster, author, coach and founder of Motherkind, Zoe Blaskey!
Our dilemma this week is all about balancing career ambitions and motherhood - or, as our listener puts it, 'career vs motherhood.' She's 33 and plans to start trying for a baby in the near future, but a combination of loss of confidence in a male-dominated, high-pressure work environment, a desire to follow her own professional ambitions and a fear of failing at having a career AND being a mother have left her feeling completely stuck.
In this episode, we tackle the conspiracy of 'having it all' when it comes to mothering and working, why building self-confidence is the first step to figuring out the way forward, and the transformative power of matrescence. Zoe also shares her insights on navigating toxic work environments, the value of mentorship, and how to find the organisations that value and support employees who also happen to be parents.
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| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Emma Reed-Torrell, psychotherapist, author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:46.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:50.1 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:56.1 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. You've come to the right place. |
| 1:07.9 | Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma, and I need to start with a very big thank you first |
| 1:13.4 | for all because we are joined by the gorgeous human that is Zoe Blaskey. Welcome Zoe. Thank you so |
| 1:18.4 | much for being here. Thanks for having me. Well, it's such a pleasure and I'm honoured for you to be here |
| 1:24.7 | because as well as being a gorgeous human, you are the best-selling |
| 1:27.6 | author of Motherkind, the host and creator of the chart shopping podcast of the same name. |
| 1:32.6 | You are a coach. You are an all-round expert of mothering, working and navigating the two, |
| 1:37.8 | which is why you are the person we need to help us unpack this week's dilemma. So thank you |
| 1:43.7 | for being here. And if it's all right with you, I'm just going to fire away. And I'm going to tell you the problem we're solving. Yes. Are you ready? Go for it. Okay. So we have a dilemma this week that's from a listener and it's all about, well, the way she puts it is career versus motherhood. I mean, maybe that says something in the first place. |
| 2:02.5 | But I will tell you what she said in her own words and see what you think. |
| 2:07.2 | I'm 33 and I work in a male-dominated, high-pressure environment where long hours and burnout seem to be |
| 2:14.5 | worn like badges of honour. I was promoted last autumn and moved to a new team, |
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