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LEAP Podcast Episode 4: Life Coach and Author, Joanne Mallon
Yes, it’s the podcast you’ve all been waiting for! The latest instalment of Life Exists After Parenthood! This time I have the wonderful Joanne Mallon, author and life coach. She’s not only very wise, she’s also very funny. Her main advice to all parents is “fuck guilt” which I’m going to get printed on a…
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We got Forum listed in the BAFTA Rocliffe Children’s Media Award!
That headline is the short version. Here’s the full story: At the start of the year I entered my first ever script – an ante-natal sitcom inspired by my ecourse/book – into the BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Award. I didn’t get anywhere with it, but the feedback they gave me was so helpful and positive that…
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If Men Gave Birth Too It Would Be All We Ever Talked About
I’ve got a theory. And that theory is that if both men and women had children, it would be all we talked about, all the time. I don’t mean in some kind of “aren’t we amazing, we produced a life” type way (although, that too), I mean in a “Holy cow, did that really happen?…
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My Simple Time-hacking Tips for Tired Mothers
If you’ve just had a baby you may well wonder how you and your infant will ever be able to leave the house before 1pm. First time around there were so many bits and bobs to collect up, so much stress over feeding times, showering arrangements, teeth brushing, changing the baby’s entire outfit after she shat…
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Leap Podcast Episode 3: Web celeb Gia Milinovich
As a blogger and tech journalist working in 2005, Gia Milinovich was something of a hero of mine. She wrote about all manner of nerd things and introduced me to this bloke Professor Brian Cox (her husband and some kind of physics whizz, apparently). In 2009, when she agreed to write a column for ParentDish for me,…