The wisdom we think we're teaching our kids? We need to hear it ourselves.

Reading to my 2 and 4-year-old every night, I've realised these aren't just bedtime stories - they're life lessons I desperately needed to hear.

Here are four of our favourite books and what they're actually teaching me:

🐠 The Power of Belief (Tiddler) - We all need that one person who believes our story matters when everyone else dismisses us.

🦁 Courage Reveals Truth (The Lion Inside) - Sometimes the thing that terrifies you is equally afraid of you.

🐨 Comfort vs. Growth (The Koala Who Could) - Nothing interesting happens in comfort zones. Life's unexpected challenges force necessary change.

🏠 Gratitude Through Perspective (A Squash and a Squeeze) - Where you are now is where you once wanted to be.

Bottom line: The gift of motherhood is that as we're raising children, they're quietly raising us too."

Listen for the unexpected wisdom hiding in your bedtime reading routine.

What happens when my 4-year-old son believes he can fix a broken train? Or when Alex's son gets asked to design planets for his nursery?

We let them try - and discover the confidence-competence cycle in action.

In this episode we explore how these "successful" moments create evidence their ideas work, why confidence builds neural pathways for learning, and how today's pretend fixes and planet designs could spark tomorrow's real passions.

Stop seeing your childrens' wild ideas as entertainment.

When you say "yes, and..." you're building real competence.

Your job is to fuel their belief that their ideas matter.

From train repairs to planet designs - every creative moment is building future problem-solvers.

What if the random chapters of your life weren't random at all - but quietly building the exact mother your children would need?

From suing a major corporation to helping a friend escape abuse, from quitting a soul-crushing job to starting a business with just my savings and hope - I'm sharing six of mine.

Looking back I realise that every brave thing I've done became an invisible superpower that now shows up for my kids.

I explore how taking on that bully corporation built my advocacy skills, why my "you can always go back" mentality teaches my children resilience, and how they're not just watching me be their mum - they're watching me be me.

The truth I've discovered?

I am not starting from scratch as a mother.

Every time I stood up for myself, every leap I took, every moment I chose courage over comfort - it was all preparation for this role.

This episode is perfect for mothers who feel like they're winging it, anyone wondering if their past matters, and women ready to recognise their own invisible superpowers.

My story shaped me into exactly the mother my children need - and yours does too.