Mambition

Some career pivots come with a plan. This one came with a voice Claire did not know she had. Claire Venus is a self described creative who also writes — and she has built a gentle, intentional creative life on Substack...

I used to be quite a private person. Even when I was struggling. Because I was brought up to conduct yourself well regardless of what is happening on the inside. But I took that too far. And in certain chapters of my...

Ros is a former national award-winning teacher and someone who has reinvented herself more than once. Raising her daughters in Singapore she is acutely aware of the pressure the education system places on children —...

The internet is full of extraordinary mothers running six figure businesses, maintaining immaculate homes and doing Pilates at 5am. All thanks to discipline, apparently. Just outside the frame? You have absolutely no...

She had THE career but then she became a mother and something shifted. Tamara Hinckley spent nine years at Pinterest. She tried interviewing for similar roles and realised somewhere in that process that she no longer...

Motherhood as the art of doing it so well that nobody notices you are doing it at all. Our school morning routine with a 3 and 5 year old is fairly calm. Because someone is behind the scenes orchestrating it all. It...

Alex and Tiffany are back for a catch up! We talk about the Great North Run, cheering loudly in public and the particular joy of embarrassing your children. About the village, the support that makes this all possible...

My 5 year old son ran the Great North Run for Kids on Saturday. He loved it. But I only discovered that he loved running when I took him for a run a year ago. He loved it. He said mummy let us go again. Now he keeps up...

Before Morgan Wider became the woman behind The Worthy Wardrobe, there was her mum. And the thread between that maternal influence and how she developed her own relationship with style, identity and being seen is one of...

Alex and I are back reflecting on the summer holidays that have somehow came to an end. Six weeks of keeping the children entertained, going on adventures, meeting strangers at parks and soft plays, making fleeting...

The kids go back tomorrow. Six weeks that felt endless at the start and gone in what felt like an instant at the end. Though I know it was long — there were days that felt like we had too much time and not enough to...

The summer camp spreadsheet. The INSET day gap. The colour coded calendar nobody else in the house understands. If you know, you know. Kathryn Hatcher is the founder of Camply — a platform helping busy parents find...

If I met myself at a party I think I would want to sit down and have a conversation. And I think I would walk away thinking — wow, that person is really something. For someone who spent years being insecure, this is...

Why is it always mum who knows what day non-uniform day is? Therese is the founder of Hey Ladybird — an AI powered app that turns school emails, WhatsApp messages and permission slips into an organised family calendar...

Pre-mum me wore heels a lot because I tied a significant part of how I felt about myself to how dressed up I was. Motherhood changed that. First out of necessity then out of choice. Jumpsuits, trainers, and somewhere...