8 Parenting Podcasts To Add To Your Playlist

On this podcast, Dr. Shefali – Oprah‘s favourite parenting expert and a New York Times bestselling author – dives into heartfelt discussions with real-life parents (some of them A-list celebrities like Pink and Eva Mendes). In each episode, she offers tools and insights to help other parents tackle daily challenges and foster authentic connections with children. 

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Dr Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mum of three. When she first started out, she admits to practicing a popular behaviour-first, reward-and-punishment mode, but it soon struck her that those methods felt awful – both for kids and parents. So, she took everything she knew about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation and internal family systems theory, and translated those ideas into a new method for working with parents – which she shares in these episodes.

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Zoe hosts the critically-acclaimed Motherkind podcast – of the UK's top family podcasts with five million downloads. Every week, Zoe interviews world leading experts such as Glennon Doyle, Dr Gabor Mate and Dr Rangan Chatterjee to help parents find a place of calm in the chaos. Expect to pick up plenty of practical tips from a wide range of wellness experts and teachers.

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Kate Ferdinand stepped into a mothering role when she married widower and father of three Rio Ferdinand. Since then, she’s had two more children with him, which explains why this podcast is a celebration of blended families, exploring the stories of relationships bound by love, no matter the circumstances. Covering subjects such as second marriages, divorce, grief and life after loss, adoption, fostering and (not-so-wicked) stepmothers, Kate champions different voices and experiences by speaking with experts, everyday people and celebrities.

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In this series, Sophie Ellis-Bexter speaks to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work. As a singer who has released seven albums in between having five sons, Sophie has had to spin a few plates herself. Acknowledging it can be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions, she seeks to understand how other people balance it all. 

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Hosted by podcast pro and singer Jessie Ware, this series was recorded during her last pregnancy. Each week, she spoke to a range of different experts to answer key questions about body and baby. Jessie addresses common concerns and symptoms, including what you can do to alleviate them and what’s happening with your baby at each stage of pregnancy. Two health professionals – Jess McMicking, a consultant obstetrician and midwife Isabelle Bourton – appear alongside sonographers, doulas, nutritionists, mental health experts, midwives and reflexologists.

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Not Another Mummy Podcast is one of the UK's top parenting shows, with previous guests including Philippa Perry, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Emma Bunton, Rosie Ramsey and Meg Mathews. Host Alison Perry chats to a different guest each episode about parenting and family issues – from postpartum psychosis to midlife reinvention and single parenting. Alison also dives deep into the modern issues that span all ages and stages, for both mothers and fathers.

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Happy Mum, Happy Baby was born out of Giovanna Fletcher’s own experiences of motherhood, a theme which started in her book of the same name. In each episode, Giovanna talks to a range of high-profile parents, from Tana Ramsay to Tanya Burr, about all aspects of parenting. In a series of frank and warm conversations, Giovanna discusses the highs, lows, challenges and rewards.

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