What would you actually do if your baby choked right now?

In this episode, we sit down with Charlotte from And Breathe First Aid, a paediatric ICU nurse with over a decade of experience and the founder of NZ's only parent-specific first aid education. We talk about the gap between knowing first aid and actually being able to act in a crisis, why choking is less common than you think (and what to do when it does happen), and the one stat about CPR that stopped us both in our tracks.

We cover:

• The difference between gagging and choking, and the one question to ask yourself
• Why baby CPR is nothing like what you learned in a workplace course
• Febrile seizures: what they are, how common they are, and why no one talks about it
• How to stay calm when it's your own child
• The free Baby CPR mini course you can do right now from your couch

Charlotte also shares the story of her own daughter going blue at 2am, which is equal parts terrifying and reassuring.

Free Baby CPR Mini Course: https://www.andbreathefirstaid.co.nz/pages/baby-cpr-mini-course

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Nobody talks about the bit in between. Not the exciting launch, not the "we made it" moment. Just the long, unglamorous stretch where you're building something real while running on broken sleep and blind faith. That's where Nikki and Sophia are right now, and this episode they're not pretending otherwise.

From midnight wake-ups and toddlers who insist on driving the car, to turning 41 wondering if you have your life together, to that very specific startup feeling of being so close and so far at the same time, this one's for anyone in the thick of it.

Because parenting and building a business? Turns out they're not that different. It's the same stubbornness, the same "I can't quit now," the same slow, hard, beautiful progress you almost miss while you're living it.

If you've been waiting for someone to say "same" instead of "here's how I scaled to seven figures by Thursday," pull up a seat.

In this episode:

• Messy moments: poster frights, car-seat standoffs, and the 3am guilt spiral
• Why you never hear about the middle of the story
• Turning 41 mid-startup and questioning everything (briefly)
• "This too shall pass" and why we actually believe it
• Building The Village Co., their fifth baby

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Renata Wiles is the founder of ROAM with Kids, an app that helps NZ parents find places to go with their kids, complete with parent reviews, age-based filters, and local events.

What started as a dodgy Google map she built to stop answering the same DMs is now live across New Zealand and just landed in Brisbane.

In this episode, Renata gets refreshingly honest about what building a business with small kids actually looks like. We're talking one-handed pram-pushing while replying to emails, working until 1am for almost a year, and sitting with a resignation email in her drafts for three months before she finally hit send.

We also talk about the thing nobody says out loud: that "flexible working" doesn't really exist for parents. That the juggle is real. That this week might just be a write-off. And that the only way through is building your own village.

Big conversation. Lots of laughs. A genuinely messy moment at the end.

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