My guest on this episode is Rose Stokes, best known for her honest, nuanced writing on motherhood, women's health and living in a body the world won't stop having opinions about. You'll have seen her byline in the Guardian, Grazia, the Telegraph and Women's Health. Rose is also a mum of two, and she's just about to launch her first podcast, A Matter of Fat, with Cambridge geneticist Professor Giles Yeo.

Rose tells me why she recently went back on GLP-1 weight loss jabs after having her second baby, knowing exactly the criticism it would bring, and why she still isn't fully comfortable with the word "obesity".

We also chat about:

• Why she assumed breastfeeding would be the one thing she'd definitely be good at, and what happened instead
• The moment she realised motherhood wasn't going to "complete" her the way she'd always been told it would
• Having postnatal depression after her first baby and choosing to go again anyway
• Why she thinks the UK not classing obesity as a chronic disease is more complicated than it sounds
• What she actually wants listeners to feel by the end of an episode of A Matter of Fat
• Her son's brutally honest take on leaving nursery

Find Rose on Instagram: @rosestokes

Listen to A Matter Of Fat podcast: https://www.instagram.com/amatteroffatpod/

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Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I'm a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood and confidence on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It's Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound

Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer

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My guest today is Sarah Beeny - property expert, broadcaster and entrepreneur, mum of four boys, and the host of the podcast Seriously?, where she talks to her sons about pretty much every topic under the sun. She's also just relaunched My Single Friend, the iconic dating site everyone was talking about in the noughties, now reborn as a video app, and she's been working with the NSPCC on online safety.

Sarah talks to me about why she took a hard line on screens years before it was fashionable - she once organised a school sit-in to keep iPads out of the classroom. She tells me why she thinks the under-16 social media ban is only the start, why we've all muddled up "quiet" and "happy" when it comes to our kids, and why talking to them about absolutely everything (yes, including sexting and foreplay) beats crossing your fingers and hoping it sorts itself out.

We also chat about:

• Why the social media ban is just the beginning - and the bigger thing she'd ban tomorrow
• The advice from her brother that made every awkward conversation with her kids easier
• What all four of her sons say to her now about growing up with phones (brace yourself)
• How watching her boys on Snapchat gave her the idea to bring back My Single Friend

You can follow Sarah on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarah.beeny/?hl=en

Listen to her podcast Seriously? with Sarah Beeny https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/seriously-with-sarah-beeny/id1784734492

Find My Single Friend on the app store https://mysinglefriend.app

Find out more about the NSPCC's work on online safety https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

If you enjoyed this episode, please do rate and review the podcast - it really helps. And you can follow the podcast to ensure you don’t miss future episodes. Thank you!

Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I'm a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It's Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound

Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer

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My guest today is presenter, author and speaker Andrea McLean, best known for over a decade on Loose Women.

Her new book, Shameless, details how she left her TV career to build a business with her husband Nick, and watched it collapse - with a bailiff turning up at the door, debt, and eventually having to sell their home. She talks to me about applying for jobs in coffee shops and hearing nothing back, what she told her kids when the money ran out, and the health scare that nearly killed her and changed everything. She also opens up about finding out who her real friends were, and why she and Nick packed up the car and moved to Spain to start again.

On the episode we also talk about:

• Why she used her own savings to fund the business instead of bringing in outside investors, and what she'd tell her 2020 self about that decision
• The moment a bailiff turned up at her front door, and how she ended up making him a cup of tea
• The friend who pulled a work offer at the worst possible moment, and what that taught her about who shows up
• Being told she was 24 hours from death, and how that reshaped the way she works and lives now

You can find Andrea on Instagram @andreamclean1 and her book, Shameless, is out now wherever books are sold: https://link.amazon/B0f2y45Yg

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review - it really helps other mums find the podcast. Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I'm a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood and confidence on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It's Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound

Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer

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