We Just Happen To Be Mums
by Nicky Crosby and Ellie Fanyinka
We Just Happen To Be Mums is the podcast for women who are mums, but not only mums. Nicky Crosby and Ellie Fanyinka are two friends who became mothers and then realised nobody had handed them the full picture. So they started talking about it. Every episode is an honest, warm and often very funny conversation about real life with children, and real life beyond them. The invisible load. The pressure to get it all right. Friendships that shift. Bodies that change. Turning 40 and wondering what's next. Reinvention, ageing, desire, and the big question: who are you when no one needs you? Some weeks it's just Nicola and Eleanor. Other weeks they're joined by guests who bring real expertise and lived experience, from sleep coaching and gut health to raising autistic children, single parenting and redefining what success as a mum actually looks like. No perfect answers. No judgement. Just two women who happen to be mums, saying the things you've prob
Episodes
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From Phone Sex Operator to Dominatrix to Coach: Lady Velvet on Ditching Shame
Teenage single mum. Phone sex operator. Professionally trained dominatrix. Award-winning coach. Grandma of four. Lady Velvet, the Mistress of Choice, has lived many lives, and she’s done hiding any of them. She tells us how a conversation on a bench by Tower Bridge led to seven years of phone sex...
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Rejected for Being “Too Much”: Autism, EHCP Waits & Home Ed
Two mums, one very real week. Nikki opens up about her son George, who is autistic and minimally verbal, being turned away from a home ed class and a mainstream school in the same week, the long wait for an EHCP, and whether school is really for the kids or for the parents. Then Ellie tries a...
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Toddler Sleep Without Cry It Out: A Child Sleep Specialist Explains
Is your child’s bedtime a nightly battle? We sit down with Gemma, a child sleep specialist and former children’s nurse, to talk honestly about cry it out, co-sleeping, dummies, night waking and what really helps when you’re running on empty. We play Bin It or Bed It with the sleep trends all over...
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Am I Enough? Single Mum Resentment, EHCP Battles and a Red Fleece Nightie | We Just Happen To Be Mums
Nicky and Elle are back for episode two, and it swings from tears to stitches and back again. Nicky is fighting for her son George, who is six, autistic and minimally speaking. She's working three jobs, homeschooling while the family waits on an EHCP, and asking why getting your child into school...
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Ex-Pat Living vs UK Living, Botox Routine & Period Facials | We Just Happen To Be Mums
Is life as a mum actually easier abroad? This week Nicky and Ellie compare ex-pat living with raising a family in the UK, what you gain and lose when home is somewhere else. Then things get personal. We talk about Botox, plus period facials and why you might want to try it. 🔔 Subscribe for new...
About this show
We Just Happen To Be Mums is the podcast for women who are mums, but not only mums.
Nicky Crosby and Ellie Fanyinka are two friends who became mothers and then realised nobody had handed them the full picture. So they started talking about it.
Every episode is an honest, warm and often very funny conversation about real life with children, and real life beyond them. The invisible load. The pressure to get it all right. Friendships that shift. Bodies that change. Turning 40 and wondering what's next. Reinvention, ageing, desire, and the big question: who are you when no one needs you?
Some weeks it's just Nicola and Eleanor. Other weeks they're joined by guests who bring real expertise and lived experience, from sleep coaching and gut health to raising autistic children, single parenting and redefining what success as a mum actually looks like.
No perfect answers. No judgement. Just two women who happen to be mums, saying the things you've prob
Hosted by
Nicky Crosby and Ellie Fanyinka