Let’s Just Start Podcast
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Friday 12 December 2025 10:15:19 GMT
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allibalcombe :
When you leave your work place/go on maternity leave to have a baby and the business continues as usual… that’s when my perspective changed. I used to give my all, now I give the minimum
2025-12-12 13:23:27
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TheBeanStead :
Women need to be raw about the first few months postpartum. when someone asks how things are we need to lay it all out there. it was the darkest part of my life.
2025-12-12 20:00:55
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LozandGio :
i couldnt agree more. now im back at work after mat leave, while I want to work, and i love my job and want to be a great role model for my daughter, nothing at work will come before my personal time ever again, because after all, its just a job and if the report isnt submitted by 5pm, nothing is actually going to happen, itll be there monday.
2026-01-30 05:57:01
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Erin Gregory :
Funny how there’s not a term for “working dad”
2025-12-13 05:44:09
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Nic :
Felt this shift instantly. It really shouldn’t be stigmatised!
2025-12-12 10:52:16
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Ali1234 :
This is how I feel about office politics. The higher you get, the more political it gets and I still don’t care. Get a life, get your work done and stop the drama. I want to get home to my kids, put on my PJs and go to bed.
2025-12-12 12:30:10
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corydu :
For me, it was how I was treated in pregnancy and postpartum by my employer. It broke the glass for me- I am not giving them my all after that. They get me 9-5 and I’ll work hard during that time, but it’s transactional
2025-12-15 14:01:05
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Jessica Pessica :
I have never been so focused, outcome oriented and value led led as I am now I’m a mother. I have said of my child free ‘big career year’ pre kids that ‘I’m not convinced I was actually that good at my job… I just had a lot more time to give it.’ I may be being harsh, but it wasn’t until I needed to keep up with people working 7 - 9 in 9 - 5 that I started to get really clear on how to be better. Plus negotiating with toddlers has made me endless more resilient, flexible, and boundary led.
2025-12-13 08:51:20
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This is exactly what I try to explain to people! I love my job and will never be a stay at home mum it’s just not for me, but I also just don’t care as much about it as I used to 😂 I listen to peoples conversations in meetings at work and just think wow this is what we are choosing to spend time on today? 😂 I’m not sure if it’s good or not… sometimes I think it makes me a bit more straight forward but then I worry it makes me seem apathetic somehow?
2025-12-13 19:55:43
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Melanie Saulnier :
Litterally it’s like WHY does this matter
2025-12-12 17:58:33
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Louise :
100%! Back at work 3m after mat leave & over all the politics, insincere positivity and corporate jargon. Can’t we just talk plainly, get meaningful work done. So over it and I loved my job pre-baby
2025-12-13 02:52:50
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Emily Sterritt :
I feel this! Nothing in the workplace compares to the work at home of raising a literal human being.
2025-12-15 08:55:40
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Cris_p_tofu :
This happens without having children. It’s a maturing stage in life that some may experience in line with motherhood, but it’s experienced outside of raising children too.
2025-12-12 22:05:13
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User18736282947 :
I didn’t realize this until after I was 3 years into my degree and had a 2 year old. No one had ever EVER! Told me that it’s not just mat leave then back to work. You have a baby, you might go back part time, you’ll have another baby same again and maybe again you will be so severely sleep deprived during this time you will have no cognitive capacity to complete your role. Study and/ or work will take twice as long all why the most important time (young kids) will pass. I truly can’t believe how unprepared I was.
2025-12-13 09:47:05
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UG9210 :
I feel this without kids too. It's something I'm feeling this stronger everyday the older I get. I think it links in with maturing and evolving as a person as well.
2025-12-12 21:19:28
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GigiTiks :
I think this happens with age regardless of kids
2025-12-12 14:18:20
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user46351280962 :
i feel like this now without kids 🙃
2025-12-12 21:07:26
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redpandaland99 :
Bc workplaces exploit all of us and expect way too much for too little.
2025-12-12 19:13:15
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Katie :
It’s resilience! You can bounce back again from work setbacks super quickly because you realise it’s not that big of an issue because as long as your children are okay everything is okay
2026-02-22 10:20:25
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missaprillouise88 :
Feels.
2025-12-20 19:54:28
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CapilliHaus :
Yes. 🙌
2026-01-06 20:47:30
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Annahi :
I love how you articulated this fundamental truth which society capitalises on but does not reward mothers for.
2025-12-30 07:59:15
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Delaney :
no one is going to die if I don't give 100% at my job. if I don't give 100% at being a mum...yeah that's a different outcome 🤷♀️
2026-01-05 22:53:35
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toddlermomtechjob :
It becomes immediately clear that we are trading our life time, spending our life force, doing bullshit for someone’s empire.
2025-12-23 19:04:22
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Amanda Davies :
You’ve articulated exactly what I’ve been feeling after my child. It’s not that I don’t love my job anymore but it is not the most important thing.
2025-12-16 11:26:14
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