Sarah Wheatley - Owner of Birth and Beyond - Discusses what causes postnatal depression & how can we try and avoid it?
Release Date: 02/11/2019
Bonnie - Son Could Be Denied Access To High School Due To His Long Hair!
Magnificent Mothers
Bonnie's son Farouk James has beautiful long hair. The high school that Bonnie would like her son to go to would deny him access because of his hair! We discuss how she is campaigning to stop this discrimination we also discus racial hair discrimination in schools.
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Sophie - The Journey To Adoption
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Sophie is on the journey to adopting her first child. We discuss the reasons why she has decided to adopt alone, deciding what route to go down with adoption, the ethnicity of your adopted child and how family takes the adoption. Sophie is Born to Ugandan parents and grew up in London and a few years ago moved to the countryside in Scotland. We discuss her business which is a social media agency called stuffs ( @letsdostuffs) and her social enterprise called PERF.
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Caroline McAllister - Criminal Defence Lawyer to Stay At Home Mum
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Caroline McAllister is a Scottish born married mum of 2 girls . She was a criminal defence lawyer and owned her own practice. She gave that up to look after her kids full time and we discuss the change and how she delt with that. Caroline also discusses the grief of loosing her mother aged 17 and how difficult that is now she has her own children. Caroline has an instagram account called @TheUltimateFeeder in which she shows easy to follow recipes for busy parents - it always looks delicious!
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Emma MacDonald - Co-Founder of Tartan Blanket Co & Kilt Society.
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Emma MacDonald is an entrepreneur and married mum of three. Emma and her husband own The Tartan Blanket Co & Kilt Society. In this episode Emma explains how she helped expand her husbands existing business with her expertise and also start the Tartan Blanket Co. She has twins and a daughter all 2 and under! She has managed to create great balance throughout her life. Find out how she started her successful business and how she balances this with having a family!
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Celine - Living Sustainably, ili Laptop Stand & Raising Step Kids.
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Celine is a French born mum of 4. She is a senior Lecturer at Napier University and has co-created ili Laptop stand using her education in sustainability for the product to aline with her morals. Celine lives a very sustainable life and explains the pillars of sustainability. We discuss parenthood and she also discusses how it has been raising her a step son over the years.
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Meghan Joy Yancy - Mum of 6 | Homeschooling, Interracial Marriage, Entrepreneur
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Meghan Joy Yancy is a married mum of 6. She is an entrepreneur with several businesses. Her social media presence is incredible with almost 100,000 followers on instagram. We discuss homeschooling, interracial marriage, raising kids in America today and more!
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Dr Punam Krishan - Lifestyle Medicine Doctor & GP
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Dr Punam Krishan is a married mum to a 5 year old.She is a portfolio locum GP in Glasgow. In addition she is a trustee and director of the British society of lifestyle medicine, honorary senior clinical lecturer at Glasgow universitY, freelance writer, health and mindset coach, founder of Glasgow Wellbeing’s and is currently filming a tv series for BBC on health.
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Emma O'Connor - Discussing having a child with debilitating anxiety & her book Happy Now
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In this episode of Magnificent Mothers we have Emma O’Connor who is a married mum of two from Australia. She fell in love with Edinburgh and made the move when her two kids were young. Emma’s son had debilitating anxiety from p5 and couldn’t go to school due to the anxiety. She discussing what she did to help her son through the difficult time. This lead her to write her book ‘Everyday Happy’. She is also opening a ‘Happiness Now’ community hub to help children with mental health problems.
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Jo Lee - Surviving Stage 4 Cancer & Raising Teenagers
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Jo Lee is a married mum of two girls aged 20 & 18. Jo is a life coach (Valour Coaching) and felt artist. Jo has survived stage 4 cancer and tells us what helped her during this time including her mindset, herbalist and she discusses how important it is to be vulnerable and receive help from others. Jo also discusses raising teenagers and how she deals with the new age of social media.
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Laura - Satisfashion Stylist Sharing Wardrobe Tips
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Laura is a married mum of a 2 year old girl. She has her own business called Satisfashion in which she is a personal stylist/shopper. In this episode she shares tips on how we can be confident in our clothes and what to have in our wardrobe. Laura also discusses how it is to be a self employed mum. She explains the anxiety she has around her daughters eating and how it has impacted her.
info_outlineSarah Wheatley is a married mum of two. Sarah runs ‘Birth and Beyond’ and is a psychotherapeutic counsellor. After having postnatal depression and anxiety with her first child. Sarah was really interested in why it had happened which resulted in her going back to university and retraining to be a psychotherapeutic counsellor. We discuss what causes PND, how to help avoid it and how to help it. Sarah works with parents and babys using techniques like Video Interaction Guidance and Newborn Observation!