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Season 3

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Mimi Ikonn

The Courage to Choose Yourself

Motherhood, ambition, marriage, reinvention and choosing yourself when success no longer feels like alignment.

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Season 2

15 episodes

Simona Deifta

The Truth About Natural Birth Nobody Tells You

An honest conversation about natural birth, preparation, fear, motherhood and what women are rarely told before childbirth.

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Birth Without Fear

How to Prepare for a Natural Childbirth

A deep conversation on preparing for natural childbirth, understanding fear, trusting the body and navigating birth with confidence.

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Mariana Shafro

From Vogue Shoots to Bomb Shelters

A conversation on displacement, resilience and the life behind the image.

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Danni Menzies

The Brutal Truth About Finding Love After 30

Dating, self-worth and rebuilding a modern idea of partnership.

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Arina Schneitter

I Gave Up Everything to be a Mom

Motherhood, identity and the cost of choosing family on your own terms.

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Natalie Costa

How to Raise Resilient, Emotionally Smart Kids

Emotional resilience, parenting and the inner work adults bring into family life.

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Tiffanie Darke

Fashion Is Broken: The Rule of Five That Can Change Your Life

Consumption, style and the personal systems behind a more considered life.

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Zoe Blaskey

The Truth About Maternal Burnout No One Wants to Say Out Loud

Maternal burnout, invisible pressure and the support mothers are rarely given.

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Kate Moyle

Why We Are All Doing Sex Wrong

A therapist-led conversation about intimacy, desire, communication and rebuilding connection in modern relationships.

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Mandy Hickson

From Being Told Never To Becoming The RAF's First Female Tornado Pilot

Ambition, courage and what women are told they cannot become.

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Julie Menanno

The #1 Relationship Killer And How to Stop It

Attachment, intimacy and the patterns that quietly shape relationships.

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Anna Mathur

Why So Many Mums Secretly Feel Like They're Failing

Motherhood, guilt and the private emotional load so many women carry.

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Tova Leigh

Why Midlife Women Are More Powerful

Midlife, freedom and the point where old definitions of success stop fitting.

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Cat Sims

Breaking Cycles, Boundaries and the Truth about Motherhood

Boundaries, family patterns and the reality beneath modern motherhood.

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Hermione Olivia

Miscarriage, Motherhood and Starting Over

Loss, motherhood and rebuilding after life changes shape.

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Season 1

10 episodes

Gona Saed

How One Woman Escaped Violence to Empower Thousands

Survival, advocacy and turning lived experience into protection for others.

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Milena Sanchez

What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Mum

The realities of becoming a mother that rarely make it into the public story.

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Chai Cohen

Juggling 7 Kids Faith and Purpose

Faith, family scale and the daily architecture behind purpose.

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Natalie Chassay

Building a Business and Fighting Mom Guilt

Business, ambition and the guilt that follows women through work and home.

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Dr Marcia Inhorn

The Truth About Egg Freezing

Fertility, timing and the systems shaping women's reproductive choices.

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Sasha Vara

The Brutal Reality Nobody Talks About Motherhood

Motherhood, expectation and the truths that are still difficult to say aloud.

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Sarah Corbett-Winder

Desire, Identity and Female Confidence

Desire, confidence and how women relate to themselves beyond performance.

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Lisa Ing Marinelli

The Hidden Cost of Being a High-Achieving Mom

Achievement, motherhood and the unseen cost of holding everything together.

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Mimi Ikonn

Divorce, Family and Building Intelligent Change

Divorce, family and rebuilding identity after a public life changes.

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Roxie Nafousi

Manifestation, Addiction, Motherhood and Rebuilding

Manifestation, addiction, motherhood and the work of rebuilding from inside out.

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Season 3

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Angela Saini

What Science Got Wrong About Women

Who decided women should do the caring? Angela questions the science and stories used to justify it.

Laura McGrath on Do Not Disturb with Simona Deifta▶

Laura McGrath

Pregnancy Loss, Feeding Choices and Support for Mothers

The Lola&Lykke co-founder on pregnancy loss, formula guilt, returning to work and the help mothers can actually use.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Amelia Christie-Miller▶

Amelia Christie-Miller

Motherhood Did Not Make Her Less Ambitious

The Bold Bean founder on time, pay, delegation and building a company that can grow beyond her personal capacity.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Sabrina Sarl▶

Sabrina Sarl

Can You Stay Ambitious After Motherhood?

A candid conversation about identity, work and the ambition that remains after life changes shape.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Becky Selbie▶

Becky Selbie

The Motherhood We Were Never Prepared For

The expectations mothers inherit—and what happens when real life doesn’t fit them.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Gillian Orr▶

Gillian Orr

Why Comparison Steals Motherhood

On comparison, cultural pressure and finding a version of motherhood that feels like your own.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Anna Hushlak▶

Anna Hushlak

Women Aren’t Burnt Out. They’re Disconnected.

A conversation about friendship, belonging and the systems women need to feel supported.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Emily Oster▶

Emily Oster

The Parenting Advice We’ve Been Getting Wrong

Data, judgment and how parents can make confident decisions without chasing impossible certainty.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Hiba Siddiqui▶

Hiba Siddiqui

The Truth About Postpartum Recovery

What recovery really asks of mothers—and why so many women still feel unsupported after birth.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Mimi Ikonn▶

Mimi Ikonn

The Courage to Choose Yourself

Motherhood, ambition, marriage, reinvention and choosing yourself when success no longer feels like alignment.

Season 2

15 conversations
Simona Deifta discussing the truth about natural birth▶

Simona Deifta

The Truth About Natural Birth Nobody Tells You

Preparation, fear, motherhood and what women are rarely told before childbirth.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Catherine Rose-Bloom▶

Catherine Rose-Bloom

Birth Without Fear: Preparing for Natural Childbirth

Understanding fear, trusting the body and navigating birth with confidence.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Mariana Shafro▶

Mariana Shafro

From Vogue Shoots to Bomb Shelters

Displacement, resilience and the life behind the image.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Danni Menzies▶

Danni Menzies

The Brutal Truth About Finding Love After 30

Dating, self-worth and rebuilding a modern idea of partnership.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Arina Schneitter▶

Arina Schneitter

I Gave Up Everything to Be a Mum

Motherhood, identity and the cost of choosing family on your own terms.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Natalie Costa▶

Natalie Costa

How to Raise Resilient, Emotionally Smart Kids

Emotional resilience, parenting and the inner work adults bring into family life.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Tiffanie Darke▶

Tiffanie Darke

Fashion Is Broken: The Rule of Five

Consumption, style and the personal systems behind a more considered life.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Zoe Blaskey▶

Zoe Blaskey

The Truth About Maternal Burnout

Invisible pressure and the support mothers are rarely given.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Kate Moyle▶

Kate Moyle

Why We’re All Doing Sex Wrong

Intimacy, desire, communication and rebuilding connection in modern relationships.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Mandy Hickson▶

Mandy Hickson

From “Never” to the RAF’s First Female Tornado Pilot

Ambition, courage and what women are told they cannot become.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Julie Menanno▶

Julie Menanno

The #1 Relationship Killer—and How to Stop It

Attachment, intimacy and the patterns that quietly shape relationships.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Anna Mathur▶

Anna Mathur

Why So Many Mums Secretly Feel Like They’re Failing

Motherhood, guilt and the private emotional load so many women carry.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Tova Leigh▶

Tova Leigh

Why Midlife Women Are More Powerful

Midlife, freedom and the point where old definitions of success stop fitting.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Cat Sims▶

Cat Sims

Breaking Cycles, Boundaries and Motherhood

Family patterns and the reality beneath modern motherhood.

Simona Deifta in conversation with Hermione Olivia▶

Hermione Olivia

Miscarriage, Motherhood and Starting Over

Loss, motherhood and rebuilding after life changes shape.

Season 1

10 conversations

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