We celebrate the ambitious mother. The one building something, showing up, chasing big goals alongside raising children.

But we rarely talk about what is actually holding her up.

This episode is about the missing conversation in motherhood — maternal support. The village, the structure, the people behind the scenes who make it all possible.

And why pretending it is just discipline and hustle is doing every mother a disservice.

In this episode:→ The woman on the Eurostar who told me I would miss my mum most when I became a mother — and why she was wrong→ What my mother in law quietly, consistently makes possible → Why the gap between mothers who are thriving and mothers who are drowning is almost always about support not strength

Because behind every mother who seems to be holding it all together — there is almost always someone holding her up.

118 episodes. 75+ women.

In this special milestone episode Alex gets personal — about what it actually took to build Mambition, the partnership that made consistency possible and what this podcast has genuinely meant for her own life.

It started as a platform. It became something more.

A way back to herself after a career that knocked her sideways.

Two years in, here is what she knows:

→ Ambition isn't one size fits all→ The system is stacked against us — and knowing that changes everything→ Figuring out your own version of success and protecting it fiercely is the whole game

For anyone who has ever kept showing up — not because they had it all figured out, but because somewhere underneath the uncertainty they knew stopping would cost them something they couldn't afford to lose. 🎙️

We spend so much time thinking about what we teach our children. This episode flips that entirely.

My 3 year old daughter and 5 year old son have quietly, consistently and completely without knowing it been teaching me things I spent years trying to learn.

About confidence, curiosity, forgiveness, presence, friendship and joy.

In this episode I share 10 things my children do better than me — and what every mother can learn from paying closer attention to the small people she is raising.

Because motherhood isn't just about raising children.

It's about being raised by them too.

→ Making friends without overthinking it→ Asking for what you want without apologising→ Living fully in the present moment→ Forgiving quickly and moving on→ Finding joy in the smallest things→ Never saving the best for a special occasion

For the mother who sometimes forgets that the greatest leadership course of her life is already happening — right in her own home.