Motherhood reshapes everything we thought we knew about work - our ambition, our identity, and what we now choose to prioritise.
And that shift isn’t a problem to solve. It’s a transformation to honour.
Words from @zoeblaskey , speaker at our upcoming Motherhood Works Summit in partnership with Mindplace @bupa.uk | 19 June, where this conversation is being brought to the forefront.
Something has shifted and it’s not going backwards.
This is where motherhood moves from penalty to power.
At the Motherhood Works Summit in partnership with mindplace @bupa.uk , this panel is about what comes next - turning clarity into action, and rebuilding ambition on your own terms.
Not returning to who you were, but stepping into who you are now.
From confidence to negotiation, from pivots to permission, from silence to asking for more, this is about real, practical power.
Featuring:
Zoe Blaskey, Shazia Mustafa and Sophie Martin. Hosted by Alice Olins
Because motherhood doesn’t shrink ambition. It reshapes it into something stronger.
Retinal is skincare’s most hyped ingredient… and possibly its most confusing. 💫
The purge fears, the pressure to go stronger, the feeling that everyone else somehow understands what “0.1% retinal” means except you.
In this piece, @stephanieyeboah breaks down exactly how to start using retinal properly without overwhelming your skin or falling into the “more is more” trap.
Because good skin isn’t about pushing your face to its limits. It’s about patience, consistency, and finally understanding what actually works for you.
Tap the link in bio to read more!
Your pain is real. It always was.
But for decades, women have been dismissed, misdiagnosed, and told it’s “just stress” while conditions go untreated and symptoms are minimised.
In this Long View, @dr_radha Wellness Editor at theALLBRIGHT, breaks down the gender pain gap and why women are still not being heard in healthcare, even when the evidence is undeniable.
This isn’t individual experience. It’s systemic failure.
Tap the link in bio to read the full story.
Motherhood doesn’t just change your body, it changes how you see it.
In our latest AllBright interview, @alexlight_ldn speaks honestly about postpartum body image, the pressure to “bounce back”, and what it really takes to rebuild self-acceptance when old thoughts return.
This is the conversation so many women are still having alone.
That’s why we’re hosting the Motherhood Works Summit to flip the motherhood penalty into power.
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For too long, ambition and motherhood have been positioned as opposites.
As if becoming a mother somehow makes women smaller, less driven, less capable.
But motherhood doesn’t erase ambition. It refines it.
It’s time we stop framing motherhood as a limitation and start recognising the strength, perspective and resilience it builds.
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No one tells you what motherhood really does to you - what it breaks open and what quietly grows in its place.
We’re opening the Motherhood Works Summit with this conversation - unfiltered, honest, and deeply human:
“No one told me this about motherhood: what I lost – and what grew in its place.”
Featuring @freddieharrel and hosted by Sophie Catto.
Because motherhood isn’t just change, it’s transformation.
And this is where we begin. Early bird ends TOMORROW, grab your tickets today via the link in bio!
@bupa.uk #bupamindplace | @momcozy.uk
Tattoos used to be about rebellion. Now? They’re about recognition.
In midlife, Georgina Edmiston writes about how getting inked becomes something else entirely - less about impulse, more about identity. A way of marking grief, love, survival… and everything life has already etched onto us anyway.
Because by this stage, you don’t need to figure yourself out anymore. You just need to honour who you already are.
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“Stop apologising for things you have not done, or for wanting your voice to be heard.”
It’s a line that stops you and then makes you rethink everything. In this week’s Q&A, @lorrainecandy challenges one of the most accepted labels of modern life and quietly dismantles it.
Because the real work? It’s not just the job title, the byline, the promotion. It’s the friendships you show up for, the marriage you nurture, the children you raise, the invisible structure holding everything else in place.
These are the foundations nobody applauds but they’re the reason anything else works at all.
From high-powered newsrooms to raising four children, Lorraine reflects on ambition, identity, and why we’ve been measuring women’s lives all wrong.
Read it, and you won’t look at “balance” the same way again via link in bio.
From girlboss to tradwife… we’ve been sold a lot of versions of “how to get ahead.”
Work harder. Be softer. Speak up. Stay agreeable. Be more. Be less. Be different. And still somehow it’s never quite enough.
This Long View by @stefanieoconnell breaks down the truth: the problem was never you. It’s the system that keeps moving the goalposts.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right and still not getting ahead, this is the read that finally explains why. Tap the link in bio to read more.
Rihanna said it simply: motherhood is the hardest job in the world. But it isn’t just hard, it’s transformative, expansive, redefining.
It stretches you in ways nothing else does and in that stretch, something powerful is built.
We’ve spent too long talking about what motherhood takes. It’s time to recognise what it creates.
Join us at the Motherhood Works Summit | 19 June
We need to stop talking about motherhood as an interruption and start seeing it as transformation.
We’re excited to announce the first speakers for the Motherhood Works Summit on the 19 June:
💫 @zoeblaskey
💫 @freddieharrel
💫 @humaqureshiwriter
💫 @sedgebeswick
💫 @clairecohen1
💫 @jo_elvin
💫 @smithamundasad
Founders, writers, creators, journalists, broadcasters.
Women who are redefining what motherhood, ambition and identity actually look like in real life, not theory.
Motherhood Works Summit | 19 June, register via the link in bio.
@bupa.uk #bupamindplace | @momcozy.uk
