She Was Let Go Twice on Maternity Leave ft. Paula Oyinkan | The Goodmother Series Ep. 11

What happens when motherhood, ambition, redundancy, grief and identity all arrive in the same season?In this episode of The Goodmother Series, host Ezinne Asinugo-Onyeka sits with Paula Oyinkan, Nigerian British podcast host, marketing professional, founder of The Paula Oyinkan Show, and founder of McCrory Studios, for a warm and honest conversation about motherhood, identity, confidence, work and becoming.Paula shares what changed after becoming a mother of two, why motherhood made her more ambitious and how being made redundant twice on maternity leave became part of a deeper reckoning with purpose, stability and self-trust. Together, Ezinne and Paula explore the realities many women carry quietly, from the identity shift of motherhood to the pressure to perform strength, the loneliness that can exist even with support and the courage it takes to build something of your own.This conversation is rooted in the unspoken truth of modern motherhood, especially for Black women, African women, Nigerian women and women across the diaspora who are navigating motherhood, marriage, career, confidence, body change, faith, grief and ambition without losing themselves.Guest Links:InstagramYouTubeThe Goodmother Series | The Unspoken TruthA modern motherhood podcast documenting how becoming a parent reshapes identity, body, and cultural belonging across the African diaspora.Hosted by Ezinne, this series centres on lived experience over advice. These are intimate, culturally rooted conversations about maternal identity, body transformation, inherited expectations, and the emotional realities of motherhood.If this episode resonated, like, comment, and subscribe to help more women find these stories.Watch on YouTube Follow The Goodmother Series:TikTokInstagramFacebookNew episodes every Sunday at 6am GMT.Produced by APodcastGeekhttps://apodcastgeek.com/