26/10/2026
Before I became a mum I had this naive expectation that I would receive some new level of respect and status for the part I’d played in the continuation of the human race.
We all find ourselves cocooning with our first baby and that feeling of FOMO in the 4th trimester is something I’ve talked about with many mums on the podcast. And those of us with COVID babies experienced a whole new level of social isolation! So it wasn’t until the world recovered and life resumed some sort of normality that I was hit with this realisation that the respect and status I had imagined wasn’t coming.
The conversations I’ve had here tell me that the more common female experience is that our perceived value takes a nosedive when we become mothers. We are deemed to be less capable, less competent, less committed and more distracted. And that’s hard when we have worked all our lives to prove just how capable, competent and committed we are in our work.
If this is you right now, I want you to know you are not invisible. I see you 🫶
This clip is from episode 87, where I share why I can’t niche, why my whole business comes back to helping mums feel seen and the scary baby step I’m taking to start taking up space in my own name.
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