What happens when you stop sounding like everyone else and start showing up as yourself?

In this episode of Mother, Mentored, I sit down with fabulous Lea Turner, founder of The Holt - a community for business owners/ To talk about her journey from leaving school at 16 to building an incredibly successful business around her life as a single mum.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How a transcription side business, started to fund her love of travel, grew into a full business
• Why Lea hated LinkedIn at first, and what changed when she started showing up as herself
• How she went from benefits to 6 figures in 10 months after Covid took her work away
• Why she founded The Holt for business owners who feel lonely in business
• How she built a team so she can take a spontaneous day out with her son

Connect with Lea Turner;

• ⁠Website - The Holt
• ⁠LinkedIn
• Instagram

Connect with Hannah and Mother Mentored;

• • ⁠Email⁠
  • ⁠LinkedIn Profile⁠
  • ⁠LinkedIn Business⁠
  • ⁠Instagram

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If you've ever stood in front of someone on their first day back from leave and thought, "I genuinely don't know what to say here", this episode is for you.

In this solo episode of Mother, Mentored, I'm talking directly to managers. Most of the leaders I work with aren't bad managers. They're good managers who have never been shown how to do this one thing well.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the standard return-to-work conversation misses what people are really carrying
• Why open questions beat "are you okay?"
• How to make check-ins at one, three and six months feel normal
• Why a confidence dip is not a performance problem
• Why your tone around flexibility matters more than your words
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What does it take to leave a career you've spent 10 years in and build a business around the life you actually want?

In this episode of Mother, Mentored, I sit down with Samantha Hearne, a business coach and mentor, to talk about her journey from secondary school teacher to building a personal brand community that helps women create profitable businesses on their own terms.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Sam went from teaching to starting a business in anxiety and mental health coaching in 2016
• What self-publishing a bestselling book and launching a charting podcast taught her
• Why she moved into business mentoring in 2018
• How she helps 100s of women work fewer hours and make more money
• Why she created CPD programmes so clients can become accredited in their work

Connect with Samantha Hearne;

• Instagram
• Website

Connect with Hannah and Mother Mentored;

• ⁠Email⁠

• ⁠LinkedIn Profile⁠
• ⁠LinkedIn Business⁠
• ⁠Instagram

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Have you ever said something perfectly sensible in a meeting, then spent the next ten minutes wondering if you sounded stupid?

In this solo episode of Mother, Mentored, I talk through the identity gap: the sense that you're doing the job fine, but don't quite feel like yourself while you're doing it. It's something I hear from almost every woman I mentor in her first few months back.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the identity gap is structural, not a confidence problem
• Why it only passes if you name it
• Why competence comes back faster than confidence, and why big career decisions can wait
• How small, visible wins rebuild your identity faster than affirmations
• Why who you talk to about it matters

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What changes when you've been a working mother for seventeen years, long enough to watch the whole system shift beneath you?

In this episode of Mother, Mentored, I sit down with Christina Francis, a senior tech leader, to talk about the before-and-after view 17 years of working motherhood gives you, and the personal story behind the housing initiative she built for single mums.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How working motherhood has changed across Christina's 17 years as a mum
• Why she calls patience the biggest leadership skill parenting ever taught her
• The mentoring program she built to help women navigate their maternity return
• Why she founded her incredibly housing initiative to support single working mothers.
• What "leading with grace" actually looks like in practice

Connect with Christina Francis;

• Email
• LinkedIn

Connect with Hannah and Mother Mentored;

• Email

• LinkedIn Profile
• LinkedIn Business
• Instagram

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What if the real skill motherhood teaches you isn't multitasking, but the confidence to say "not right now"?

In this episode of Mother, Mentored, I sit down with Amy Lester, founder of 'Typing & Tasks and VA Drop in Desk' her Virtual Assistant mentoring community, to talk honestly about building a business around the very boundaries motherhood forced her to learn.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why Amy built her incredible mentoring programme after constantly being asked "how do you do it?"
• The one boundary shift that changed how she works with every client
• Why she now works four days a week, fully off on the fifth, and what that protects
• Why "I'm still me, I'm still ambitious" matters more than any identity shift motherhood brings

Connect with Amy Lester;

• ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠
• Instagram
• Website

Connect with Hannah and Mother Mentored;

• ⁠Email⁠

• ⁠LinkedIn Profile⁠
• ⁠LinkedIn Business⁠
• ⁠Instagram⁠
• Website

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What if the leadership skills companies pay thousands for are ones mothers are already building every day, completely unrecognised?

In this first episode of Mother, Mentored, I sit down with Alexa Starks, founder of Mother Media and editor-in-chief of Mother Magazine, to talk about her journey from unsupported return-to-work experiences to building a global research platform on motherhood and leadership.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why Alexa pivoted from maternity leave coaching to founding Mother Media.
• The surprising leadership skill mothers build fastest (and why it's overlooked)
• Why so many senior women still stay quiet about motherhood at work
• The one conversation to have with your manager before you go on leave
• What the best and worst return to work experiences really look like

Connect with Alexa Starks;

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠
• ⁠Instagram⁠
• ⁠Website⁠

Connect with Hannah and Mother Mentored;

• ⁠⁠Email⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠LinkedIn Profile⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠LinkedIn Business⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠
• ⁠Website⁠

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Hannah x