The Ambitious Mum Podcast

Kate is starting a brand new podcast The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, aligning with what she has discovered since her own diagnosis alongside her daughter at the age of 40 and sharing tools and vital information to help you live your most calm and balanced life.

In this final episode, Kate thanks you for your time listening to the Ambitious Mum and for the community it created, she explains how she came to the decision to move onto the ADHD Women's Wellbeing podcast and what you will gain from listening to it, whether you've had a diagnosis or...

Acknowledging what has been built here.
During this one-off, finale episode, Kate reflects on the imparted wisdom of her guests from season three of The Ambitious Mum Podcast.

Kate talks about everything from our long-standing and limiting beliefs to recognising when we’re out of alignment and how this shows up in our bodies.

Hear as she shares how these conversations have shifted her view during the pandemic and what increased self-awareness has gifted her during this time. She also acknowledges how making space, choosing more rest and creating time out, actually helps us create th...

Getting curious about your own inner beliefs and what you think to be "true" about yourself.

Joining Kate today is Shelley Bosworth, an ex-corporate, straight-talking, women’s mindset coach. 

After turning 40, experiencing a health scare and personal loss, Shelley decided that she wanted ‘more’ and set about changing her path. She now helps ambitious female business owners take back control of their life and break free of their self-limiting beliefs to step into the ‘more’ they have always dreamt of.

During this episode, hear Shelly and Kate discuss limiting beliefs, how they could be holding you...

If you feel creatively blocked or deprived, this episode may inspire you to take stock and chase your creative desires. Choosing to leave your lucrative banking career to follow your dream at drama school, alongside having two small children, seems pretty crazy but for Esther Wane it was the best thing she ever did.  
Creativity can be hard to identify with, or at times feel way out of reach. Today's guest, creative coach and storyteller, Esther Wane helps to unlock that sense of creation and purpose within people.

Esther's soul searching began following a difficult emotional time a...

Using our breath to move from fight or flight mode towards a more grounded and centred place of being.  
Jess Harrod is Kate's guest today, a breathwork specialist and coach helping people transform their mental health through the power of breath. Jess was introduced  to breathwork at the beginning of the pandemic and the day after Jess' first breathwork session, she booked her teaching course, knowing that this was something special.

Kate tells us how she attended one of Jess' breathwork sessions herself and found a quieter mind and the ability to disengage from her busy thoughts. In...

Building confidence from within, discovering our values and shifting from "should" to could".

Joining Kate on this episode of the Ambitious Mum is Phanella Fine, who was previously a lawyer, a banker and is now a psychotherapist, executive coach and author.

Phanella found herself in a few careers (after succumbing to family and community pressure to choose the 'right' career) before transitioning to coaching and personal development - after feeling unfulfilled with her career when she became a mother the work she was taking on as a lawyer.

Hear how Phanella recognised that confidence...

“If I couldn't fail and I was living without this limiting belief, what would life look like?”  
Could your procrastination and anxiety be caused by ancestral trauma? Kate's guest this week is Heather Sharples, a spiritual coach who helps mothers to break the cycle of inherited beliefs.

Hear Kate and Heather discuss how ancestral trauma can manifest as depression, anxiety, self-sabotage and generally "playing small". And learn how you can move beyond limiting beliefs.

The pair also delve into the huge topic of the mother wound, honouring the strength our mothers gave us and Heather gives...

This week's episode is a special one as Kate chats to her good friend and former boss, Suzy Glaskie.  After knowing each other for 16 years, this conversation is all about their shared experience of starting afresh when your previous career doesn't align with your heart anymore.

Despite her lifelong interest in holistic practices, after graduating from university Suzy became sidetracked from this with a long career in PR, which on the surface went from strength to strength. After having her children, Suzy even started her own PR company, alongside her husband, which grew rapidly and successfully yet when s...

"I felt like women had settled and I just wanted to say - you can redefine your life. You can come back to your dream."

In this wonderful episode of The Ambitious Mum Podcast, Kate is joined by author, speaker and founder of "Meant For More", Stephanie Hendrick.

During this conversation, listen to Kate and Stephanie discuss how children model parents' behaviour and how our attitude and actions around our own dreams impact them as they grow up. They both talk honestly about the process of realising ambition and addressing the fear around the word "purpose".<...

Nehanda Truscott Reid is a Holistic Wellness Coach and founder of the Soul Mama Journey. When corporate life began to seriously clash with Nehanda’s values and the way she wanted to live during her first pregnancy, she realised that the hustle of her 'masculine' corporate job no longer aligned with where her soul was.

As she progressed throughout her pregnancy, Nehanda then began searching for a more spiritual connection and presence as she entered the journey of motherhood.   
Kate and Nehanda discuss how the structures of modern life and the pressures of getting back to our pre...

“All you have is time - it's what you do with your time...you're as busy as you want to be.” 

In this week's Ambitious Mum powerful episode, Roberta Brown aka The Mindful Mum of London gives us a huge reminder:  “All we have is now, there’s no more rehearsing, we are nobody in the grand scheme of life, just live, live, live!”
After several family traumas, including a lifelong fear of death and health anxiety, Roberta had a breakdown from which she had a big road of recovery ahead. Therapy then led Roberta to find mindfulness...

"Or intuition is not in our head, our head is the one that talks us out of everything and wants to keep us safe."

In her 40s, today's guest, Isobel Gatherer took a brave leap by leaving her corporate job and going freelance as a PA. Through this work, she began to attract clients that resonated with her, one of which completely changed her life when she was introduced to angel work.    It was through this angel work that Isobel found her gift of clairaudience and psychic abilities. She began by charging £10 for a card reading and after yea...

This week, Kate sits down with author, podcast host and relationship coach, Laura-Jane Hand.

Laura-Jane's high-pressure, high-stress corporate job was bringing her a good amount of money but left her with an empty feeling.
She speaks to how you can be aware of projecting your problems and looking outwardly to find answers, searching for something to give you connection and she reminds you to stop, turn your attention inwards and move forward from a place of authenticity.
The pair also talk about "A Course In Miracles"  and the change it brought about in both of their l...

This week's guest has lived experience of the messages she now teaches. Psychotherapist, Keeley Tavner made a choice to release aspects of the life she grew up in - letting go of friends, her job at Ikea, as well as her toxic relationship when she began studying as a mature student while being a single mother.

During an epiphany moment, while watching an episode of Oprah, Keely decided then she wanted to become a different person and better herself and her life. After many years of studying, while also working, she is now sharing her incredible knowledge, experience...

When we become mothers, our creativity often gets sapped in place of exhaustion and our children's needs. Because of this, mothers need to nourish themselves even more, by releasing their suppressed imagination and getting creative again. Today’s guest, Dr Georgina Green, is helping and guiding time-poor women to do exactly this through their writing. 
During this Ambitious Mum podcast episode, Kate and Georgina cover the importance of expressing yourself creatively, how it helps you to feel like your authentic self and gives you another reason for being other than your duties as a mother. They also discuss why it...

How can you live a more soul-driven, authentic life, and could shadow work be the first step? 

Kate dives into this form of healing with clinical psychologist, Dr Rathika Marsh.
Kate and Dr Rathika aka "The Spiritual Psychologist", uncover how unresolved trauma and emotions such as fear, anger, guilt and shame can continue to show up in our life if we don't acknowledge our childhood issues and decide to heal from our past wounds. 

The pair discuss the power of using inner child work to allow ourselves to heal from painful childhood traumas which can co...

Seeing the results of passion and pursuit - how to realise your dream business idea during a pandemic!   Kate’s guest this week is the founder of The Woolf’s Kitchen, food writer, cook and mother of three, Dominique Woolf.   18 months ago Dominique came to Kate feeling unable to get her Thai inspired food idea off the ground - fast forward to April 2021 and The Woolf’s Kitchen spicy and tangy sauces and nut ranges are now stocked in the illustrious Selfridges Food Hall.   During the episode, entrepreneur and mother, Dominique shares with Kate the steps she took to see her passi...

“Now I’m just letting more of my quirky, sarcastic and at times wildly inappropriate self out”
In her first conversation of the series, Kate Moryoussef sits down with US-based Mindset & Productivity Coach, Diann Wingert. 
The pair discuss changing careers and working through an ADHD diagnosis to best find the patterns, wellbeing tools and systems that work for them. They also dive into the mainstream perception of ADHD and where women fit into this. 
Diann Wingert is a mindset and productivity coach for female entrepreneurs who identify with the traits of ADHD, officially diagnosed or not. During her 20-y...

Kate’s back behind the microphone and has a slightly new outlook on life. 
Your host, Kate Moryoussef returns for a third series of The Ambitious Mum podcast and in this first edition brings you up to speed with the changes that have happened in her life during the break. 
This brand new series will offer incredible and inspiring conversations with women from all walks of life, each with different insights and stories to tell. 
Kate Moryoussef is a Wellbeing/EFT coach and mum to four children, who is passionate about helping women rediscover their inner voice, tap i...

"Parenting is so much more emotional than it used to be"

Dr Siggie Cohen is Kate's guest on The Ambitious Mum podcast this week. California-based Dr Siggie is a child and parent specialist and an expert in aiding families to work through their issues as a wider family unit.

She explains to Kate how we can create space between what we want for our children, while also allowing the flow of life to happen. Siggie teaches parents to cope and practice more resilience so that they feel they don't have to shield and protect the children...

Reflecting, remembering and re-centring.

This week, as 2020 draws to a close Kate takes some time to reflect on the course the podcast has taken, and to share her learnings and takeaways from her guests over the past 11 months. From moving out of your own way to scheduling in time to decompress and go within, why the meaning of ambition has shifted for Kate and how the right people and resources began to show up in her life to help make The Ambitious Mum podcast a reality.

Recalling some of the wisdom of her previous guests, Kate...

"When women get together we can change the world."  How to create community through art.

Joining Kate this week is Adrienne Konviser, founder of Art Hub London. Hear how Adi has developed a community of women and children growing together through art sessions and how, during the pandemic, she has now taken it all online, making her art sessions available to anyone.

During the episode, Adrienne tells Kate how she suffered from post-natal depression after having her first child - something she wasn't prepared for. Despite loving her past career, she chose to leave her fast-paced a...

Gone are the days of locking eyes with someone across a bar and asking them on a date - so how can finding love, dating and new relationships survive a pandemic?

This week, Kate is joined by Lara Besbrode, who has worked the majority of her career in PR before her U-turn into matchmaking! Lara, going as far as she felt she could in the PR industry, began to feel bored and started craving something new and fulfilling. And when she allowed her mind to wonder as to what she would love to do next, it was in...

Are you the capable one, the one people come to for help?

Great at giving assistance but not so good at receiving it?

Some times you need someone else to tell you - you NEED help! Kate explains how she learnt the hard way that nobody can juggle it all and receiving help could be one of the kindest things you do for yourself.

This week Kate gives you some much-needed advice on asking for help, sharing the weight of day-to-day tasks and delegating as a means of self-care.

As mothers, the...

Where is the line between being an ambitious career person and losing yourself in the high-pressure of a work-focused life? And when does the balance have to be re-addressed? Kate and her guest this week, PR wiz, Sarah Lloyd dive into it all.
Sarah has been in the media and PR business for over  23 years, after working in a fast-paced, high-energy PR environment for the first portion of her career. It wasn't until after having her children, that Sarah felt she needed to re-align her priorities, trust her intution and step back into alignment with her values.
During t...

How do we deconstruct our old conditionings and unlearn our ingrained beliefs? Kate and her guest Caroline Britton dive into this on this week's Ambitious Mum Podcast.

Caroline Britton is a spiritual coach and energy healer, leading women into a higher frequency energetic space and allowing them to re-write their limiting beliefs and live abundant lives. 

She is an intuitive and transformational coach and an expert in helping people fulfil their potential - whether that is at a soul level or developing the tools they need to transition through mindset blocks to become a successful business f...

We're often told to go with our gut feelings or use our intuition. But what's the science behind it and how can we actually improve our mental health by what we put into our bodies?

Joining Kate on the podcast this week is Annie Breen.

Annie is a Nutritional Therapist, NLP Practitioner and wellness and energy coach for mums.

As a cheerleader for mothers, she helps exhausted mothers who are done with quick-fix solutions that don't work, to mother themselves from the inside out so they can restore their vitality and feel good in...

Going against the grain of negativity, sometimes when everyone else is complaining we feel like we should be too, Kate and her guest, Nicole try to breakdown this mindset and own when actually you feel pretty great!

Kate and her guest, Nicole Goodman discuss the importance of having confidence in ourselves as women, our innate knowledge, intuition and power and how we can lean into all of it and own what you really want in your life.
Having been a hairdresser for many years Nicole could feel the need for change within her, with a love for...

If 2020 has taught us anything, it's that life can throw us into a world of unexpected situations and if you're going through a separation during this time, it is something that can delve us into the darkest depths. Kate's guest this week, Helen Slater, has lived through a divorce herself, found her own power and is now helping other women dealing with separation, to process the guilt and emotions to emerge more empowered and positive.

Helen Slater is divorce and life coach who is helping women to navigate what can be the most heartbreaking, confusing and vulnerable time...

Anna Deacon, a photographer based in Scotland, discovered that after taking up wild swimming she found improved body confidence, new friendships, inner solace and some incredible personal stories she turned into a best-selling book.

In fact, her book, Taking The Plunge came out of a collaboration with a fellow outdoor swim enthusiast, Vicky Allan and together with Anna's incredible photography, they began collecting inspiring stories of women they met in the rivers and lakes of the UK. As well as providing helpful and encouraging advice for wild swimming, the book tells stories of mental health and life struggles...

Fiona Small is a motivational speaker and entrepreneur. She is the founder and director of the Young Mums Support Network which she launched in 2011. As a solo parent of two children, Fiona was aware of the areas that single mums needed support in, through her work she has helped young mums whom she recognised were in need of skills and tools to empower them to make informed decisions about their lives and relationships.  
Ultimately the young mums that Fiona supports are able to find increased confidence and aspirations of what they can achieve through connection and community.    Ambitions manifest dif...

Joining Kate this week is Casey McGuire Davidson, certified life & sobriety coach and the host of The Hello Someday Podcast. Casey explains her path to quitting alcohol after re-assessing her destructive red wine habits and the way it was negatively impacting on her life. The pair discuss the culture of “wine mums” and how drinking to survive parenting has become all too trivialised and the real impact of this on mothers. This episode is highly valuable if you're noticing that alcohol is no longer the loyal friend you once had. *   Ambitions manifest differently for everyone and in this podcast series, Kate w...

How can your thoughts deliver you financial freedom and a 6 figure business? 
In this first episode of Series Two, Kate talks to Joanna Hunter a Manifestation Expert and Spiritual Business Coach about the path that led her to find the Law of Attraction. This path (burnout) and a near-death experience led Joanna to remodel her life and incorporate her spiritual practice with real meaningful self-care, which ultimately saved her life. 
Not only is Joanna a leading coach, but she also studies Quantum Physics and uses science in a way that allows her clients to see how their energy wi...

Launching 10th September! Series two of The Ambitious Mum Podcast....

Kate is back and returns to share more stories and insights from different women who are navigating their personal routes of motherhood, life goals and their own ambitions.

Kate's conversations are designed to inspire you on your life and career paths whilst also highlighting the issues that working mothers don't talk about enough.

The Coronavirus pandemic has shifted all of our lives and Kate will be focusing on how we can evolve out of this time and what tools we can use in our...

Despite taking a short break between series 1 and 2, Kate wanted to share her new free guide with the wonderful Ambitious Mum Podcast community.

Everything in life right now has been amplified with the lockdown; emotions, housework, relationships, along with the added pressure of homeschooling and working from home. 'From Cranky To Calm: a practical guide to becoming more patient and less frenzied' is designed to help you feel more in control and accepting of your current situation in lockdown, offering practical tools that you will take you forward into different areas of life.

Kate has also...

Banishing the should's, would's and could's and focusing on what's really important right now!

In this final episode of the series, Kate takes it back to the simple things we can focus on right now, allowing ourselves to enjoy the little pleasures where we can. She also offers some advice on alleviating the pressure put on us by all the different news, media and content we consume.

The Ambitious Mum is taking a small break but will be back with more inspiring guests who can input their wisdom and open up about the reality of being...

Joining Kate this week is Nicola Harker, a doctor, women’s empowerment specialist and a trained teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion. Nicola coaches entrepreneurial-spirited women who are feeling frustrated with themselves or their circumstances. They're not making progress, struggling with fear or their inner critic, or spending too much time firefighting everyone else's problems. She helps them to master their inner landscape, develop a clear strategy and take courageous action. 
Hear about the events that lead to Nicola’s epiphany, realising that she just couldn’t do it all and in fact, she was harming herself by not taking the time to...

In these unique times, checking in with each other has never been more important and this week, Kate offers some moments of gratitude from her week. She talks about how as a family they've begun settling into a routine and that by easing the pressure off a little this week, she's recognised that right now acceptance is crucial - whether that's accepting everyone's different frustrations or just the new sense of normal that's beginning to form, as well as the grief we're feeling for the past that may never be the same again.

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Kate’s guest this week is author and mediator, Eve Rodsky and her book, the New York Times bestseller, “Fair Play” is helping women all around the world gain more domestic re-balance and reclaim their life outside of their identity as a mother and partner.
As we hear on this week’s episode, there is no right way to do a pandemic, however despite this, Eve and Kate discuss some of the best tips to help create more harmony within your family unit during this time.
Eve explains to Kate what “she-fault” means and how women find themselves picking up t...

Community and connection is everything right now and checking in with each other is key. Kate offers her thoughts about feeling overwhelmed and guilty for not being as productive as she'd like, as well as dealing with the new normal on a day to day basis. She also offers her advice about getting through each day with more self-compassion.

Kate Moryoussef, a wellbeing coach and mum to four kids, is passionate about wanting to help women rediscover their inner voice, tap into their expansive potential and realise themselves outside of their family dynamic.
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