Breaking Mum & Dad: The Podcast
by Anna Williamson
In Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, TV presenter and national best selling author Anna Williamson brings the no-nonsense conversation about parenthood and paternal mental health from her new book to life.In frank and open conversations with celebrity parenting pals and well-known bloggers, Anna covers anxiety, post-natal depression, loneliness, guilt, fertility and so much more.A perfect companion to any parent dealing with the ups and downs that life with little one’s brings....grab a cuppa and get ready to share in the tears, laughter and bucket load of honesty!
Episodes
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Ali Bastian on Having a Lockdown Baby
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the lovely actress Ali Bastian. Ali and Anna chat what it's like to have a baby just days...
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Wilbroda Akuro from mothers2mothers on Living Positively as an HIV Positive Mother
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad Anna is speaking to Wilbroda Akuro from the brilliant mothers2mothers. Wilbroda talks to Anna...
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad Back to the New Normal
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! We're back at home, joined by Anna and her husband Alex. This week the topic of choice is holidays! Anna and Alex sit down to talk all about the anxieties and stresses around travel and holidays with little ones, planes, trains and RVs, the umming and...
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Nicola Enoch on Having a Child with Down Syndrome
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the founder of Down Syndrome UK and mum of two, Nicola Enoch. Nicola chats to Anna about…
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Dame Arlene Phillips on Damehood, Grand-parenthood and Parenting in Showbiz
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is show business legend, Arlene Phillips! Arlene and Anna chat about Arlene's Damehood…
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Hayley McLean on Raising a Transgender Child
!Trigger Warning! This episode touches on abusive relationships, so please protect your mental health and skip the episode, or seek help if you are affected. Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of...
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Nicole Sealey on Parenting through Highs and Lows
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week Real Housewife Nicole Sealey joins Anna! Nicole talks to Anna about everythng from living on her own by 15, through a...
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Rachel Brace on Step Families
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week Anna is joined by Rachel Brace, author and psychologist, specialising in support for stepparents and their partners....
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Babatunde Aleshe on Kids being a Mirror
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week Anna is joined by comedian and tv personality Babatunde Aleshe. Baba talks to Anna about acting the part of the dad…
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Catherine and Leanne on NSPCC’s Fight For a Fair Start
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week is a bit different on Breaking Mum and Dad. Anna invited two guests on the podcast. One, Catherine Hudson, Talent...
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Emmanuel Asuquo on Being a Provider
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week joining Anna is Financial Adviser and father of four, Emmanuel Asuquo. Emmanuel chats to Anna all about growing up...
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Sue Atkins on Relationships and Divorce
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week joining Anna on Breaking Mum and Dad, is author, ex teacher, podcaster, coach and one of the top parenting experts…
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Laura Dockrill on Post Partum Psychosis
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! TRIGGER: This episode contains very candid and open speech about mental health, intrusive thoughts and suicide. Please take care of yourself, reach out if you need help and if the episode become too much, there are plenty of others to choose from...
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Harriet Shearsmith on Body Confidence and a Tricky Birth
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week joining Anna on the podcast is blogging sensation, author, podcaster and mother of 3, Harriet Shearsmith, known…
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Alison Perry on IVF and Twins
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on we have our first ever returner to Breaking Mum and Dad! Mum blogger and writer Alison Perry joined Anna way back…
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Rebecca Wilson on What Mummy Makes
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad joining Anna is a lady who is an award winning and Sunday Times No 1 best-selling cookery...
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad on Holiday
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! We're back at home, joined by Anna and her husband Alex. This week the topic of choice is holidays! Anna and Alex sit down to talk all about the anxieties and stresses around travel and holidays with little ones, planes, trains and RVs, the umming and...
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JB Gill on Getting some Goodness into our Kids
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, joining Anna is 1/4 of JLS, presenter and farmer, JB Gill! JB talks about life on the farm,...
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Louise Pentland on Overcoming Trauma and Being Grateful
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, it's one of the OGs of YouTube, and all round internet sensation, Louise Pentland. Louise...
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Nigel Clarke on Kids Online
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, it's long time friend of Anna's and the face of CBeeBies Nigel Clarke! Nigel goes back to…
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Mario Falcone on the Highs and Lows of Life
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! !Trigger Warning! - Suicide This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, Anna's joined by former TOWIE star, and current Prince (by…
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad Back to School
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! We're back at home, joined by Anna and her husband Alex. This week Anna and Alex speak about the stress around school, finding out about your child's school placement, whatsapp group dilemmas, buying uniform before the confirmation, how the kids are...
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Simon Thomas on Moving Forward
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, Anna's joined by presenter, author and podcaster Simon Thomas. Three and a half years ago...
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Paul C Brunson on Family Values
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week we've replaced Anna's real husband for her on screen husband! Matchmaker, presenter, and entrepreneur Paul C Brunson...
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad Losing their Identities
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! In this new series of Breaking Mum and Dad we focus on parental mental health all with the backdrop of a pandemic. As we’ve all been kept at home at this time, we brought the podcast into Anna’s home to be joined by her husband Alex. This week Anna…
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad Dealing with Grief
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! In this new series of Breaking Mum and Dad we focus on parental mental health all with the backdrop of a pandemic. As we’ve all been kept at home at this time, we brought the podcast into Anna’s home to be joined by her husband Alex. This week we’re...
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad Out on the Town
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! In this new series of Breaking Mum and Dad we focus on parental mental health all with the backdrop of a pandemic. As we’ve all been kept at home at this time, we brought the podcast into Anna’s home to be joined by her husband Alex. This week…
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad with No Sleep
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! In this new series of Breaking Mum and Dad we focus on parental mental health all with the backdrop of a pandemic. As we’ve all been kept at home at this time, we brought the podcast into Anna’s home to be joined by her husband Alex. This week Anna…
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum and Dad out of Lockdown
Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! In this new series of Breaking Mum and Dad we focus on parental mental health all with the backdrop of a pandemic. As we’ve all been kept at home at this time, we brought the podcast into Anna’s home to be joined by her husband Alex. This week Anna…
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Lockdown: Breaking Mum AND Dad - Two's Company
Welcome back to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! Now it’s been a while, and since the last episode there’s been a new baby, a new pandemic and a whole new set of challenges to overcome, so why not start a new series! Parental Mental Health has always been something close to Anna’s heart and now...
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The Diary: Week 29
We're taking a different turn with Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast for a little while, as Anna's pregnant! Week 29! Baby girl is the size of a Hawaiian Pineapple, we're talking prep for birth, thinking about breastfeeding and working around the baby coming. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe…
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The Diary: Week 28
We're taking a different turn with Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast for a little while, as Anna's pregnant! It's week 28 of Anna's pregnancy and she takes a look back at pregnancy number one, what's different this time around, how she's feeling, and how things can change one day to the next....
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Jo Bealey on Post-partum care
Post -partum care for Mums is so vital, but can more often than not be overlooked or cut short. This week, we're focussing on care after baby and the help out there. Jo Bealey is a post-partum doula and wellbeing coach and joins Anna on this week's podcast. Jo and Anna talk about why Jo wanted to...
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Amanda Jenner on Being the Poo and Wee Queen
This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, it's Toddler and Potty training expert, Amanda Jenner. She gives us all the hints and tips to tackle a pretty huge milestone. Amanda and Anna chat how she came to be a potty training expert, inventing the carry potty, why the number of reception children not...
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Jo Bowis on Expressing Herself
This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, we have a lady who is not afraid to express herself. Literally. After a great pregnancy, actress and singer Jo Bowis went through a pretty traumatic birth which was followed by the disappointment of not being able to breastfeed exclusively. But, she soldiered on...
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Siobhan Miller on her Positive Birthing Stories
On Breaking Mum and Dad this week we have a lady who wishes she could go back and experience her positive births again. How many of us can say that eh? After a not-so-great birth to her first child at 21, and the year of post-natal anxiety that followed, Siobhan Miller didn't want a repeat for…
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Nicola Lewis on Needing a G&T
This week's guest on Breaking Mum and Dad, we have personal organiser, mum of two, blogger and now, author, Nicola Lewis. We all know that as parents, sometimes the clutter can get slightly unbearable, well this lady knows just how to sort you out. Nics chats all about decluttering, where to…
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Clio Wood on Post Birth Sex
On this week's Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, it's Clio Wood, founder of And Breathe, running post-natal retreats and events for frazzled new parents. Clio talks very openly about a huge range of subjects: hating pregnancy, birth fear, struggling to breastfeed, having therapy, having sex…
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Clemmie Hooper on Being a Midwife
This week on Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, it's a biggie. We have Clemmie Hooper, aka Mother of Daughters, joining Anna in the studio. Clemmie is mother of four, author, blogger, instamum and a practicing midiwife. Anna sat down with her to pick her brains on birth intervention, post-natal...
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Max Jennings on Getting Parents out the House
We're back after a break to bring you more Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, talking all things paternal mental health. This week we have co-founder of Hoop, Max Jennings on the podcast to chat all about how the app was started, the importance of finding activities to do with your kids, finding...
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Series 2 Coming soon!
We're back! Yes, Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast is back for a new series full of more brilliant stories from incredible Mums and Dads. We'll be covering everything from juggling work and kids, to breastfeeding; birth, to the baby blues - everything that comes hand in hand with having a little...
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Hannah Barrett on It all Being too Much
This week Hannah Barrett, blogger and yoga teacher and enthusiast, joins Anna for Breaking Mum and Dad. Hannah speaks to Anna about her two-page birth plan, good births, PND, trying to hypnobirth with an anti-hypnobirthing midwife, having a baby in intensive care, therapy, pre and post-baby yoga...
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Anna Whitehouse on Bonking with Intent
This week on Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, we have journalist, broadcaster, podcaster, vlogger and the original mummy blogger, Anna Whitehouse a.k.a Mother Pukka with us this week. Anna talks to Anna about responsibilities on social media, finding out she was having a miscarriage whilst with...
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Sergei Urban on Not being the Perfect Parent
This week we welcome Sergei Urban to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast. Otherwise known as 'the Dad Lab', Sergei built his huge insta following by showing kids and parents fun activities and experiments to try out at home. Sergei chats to Anna about how the Dad Lab started, having two kids born…
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Best of Breaking Mums
As it's Christmas, Anna is taking some time out to be with family, so this week, we have a best of special! Here are five of our lovely Mums from the year of Breaking Mum and Dad: Susie Verrill, Sarah Turner, Erin Smithers, Candice Brathwaite and Steph Douglas. Listen by clicking ‘Play’…
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Paul Tremain on Swapping Beers for Bedtime Stories
This week, Apprentice star and mum of four, Jessica Cunningham joins us down the line! Jess chats to Anna all about handling 4 children, a tricky last year, teaching her kids to speak openly about their emotions, miscarriage and the guilt attached to it, having her fourth, but husband's first…
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Chris and Katie Payne on it Taking Time for the Love to Kick in
We're multiples mad at the mo, and this week, having left the kids with Grandma for a well deserved break, Chris and Katie Payne a.k.a Triplet mum and dad of 4, join Anna down the line. Katie and Christ chat infertility struggles, the IVF postcode lottery, coming home with baby for the first…
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Alex Lewis on Choosing to Swim instead of Sink
This week it's another daddy! Alex Lewis and his wife Charlotte are the proud parents of four beautiful children - but three of them share a birthday! Yes this week, we're diving into the world of triplets! Alex lets Anna in on everything about embracing the situation, people's curiosity with...
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Jamie Day on Tinder for Dads
Jamie Day is a freelance writer, award winning blogger, fellow podcaster and Dad of two. Jamie joins Anna to chat mental health struggles, talking openly about depression, panic attacks and anxiety, his 'Man talk' podcast, meeting other dads and making the jump to go freelance and being the…
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Papa Pukka on Flexible Working
Matt Farquharson is a best-selling author of 'Parenting the sh*t out of life', father of two, husband to Mother Pukka (Anna), and best known as Papa Pukka! Matt chats to Anna about how Papa Pukka came about, Flex appeal- his campaign to make people aware of flexible working possibilities and...
About this show
In Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, TV presenter and national best selling author Anna Williamson brings the no-nonsense conversation about parenthood and paternal mental health from her new book to life.In frank and open conversations with celebrity parenting pals and well-known bloggers, Anna covers anxiety, post-natal depression, loneliness, guilt, fertility and so much more.A perfect companion to any parent dealing with the ups and downs that life with little one’s brings....grab a cuppa and get ready to share in the tears, laughter and bucket load of honesty!
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Anna Williamson