Not Another Mummy Podcast

My guest on this episode is Stacey Duguid - former ELLE fashion editor, author of In Pursuit of Happiness and now founder of Encore, a community for midlife women who can’t get back into work.

Stacey tells me how despite her glittering career in fashion, last year she sent out CV after CV and didn’t get so much as an auto reply. By March this year she was signing on for Universal Credit and then she uncovered a big reason for what was happening: AI.

Stacey explains how AI recruitment tools are filtering out women over 40 before a human ever sees their application and how - when she posted about it on her Instagram Stories - thousands of women told her it was happening to them too.

We also talk about:
The legislative changes Stacey wants to campaign for, starting with better rules for the recruitment industry
ATS - what an applicant tracking system is and why your CV might never reach a human
Botoxing your CV - the advice she was given to hide her age and experience, and why she refused
What happened when perimenopause and undiagnosed neurodivergence hit at the same time
How she feels about the “everyone’s got ADHD now” narrative and the headlines about over diagnosis

Follow Stacey on Instagram at @staceyduguid, find Encore by downloading the Mighty app and searching for Her Encore, and check out her book In Pursuit of Happiness: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-Happiness-Mating-Marriage-Motherhood/dp/0349435197/

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Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I’m a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It’s Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound
Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer
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My guest on this episode is Sunday Times bestselling poet Donna Ashworth, who Dawn French (gorgeously) once called "a human disco ball". Her poems are shared by millions of women online, and they put into words what so many of us feel but can’t quite say.

During our chat, Donna talks about why touring makes her feel like a robot Hoover, and why she needs “staring at a wall time” to recharge. We also talk about being a mum to teenage boys, what happened when she asked them to describe her (a brave move!) and why she tells her sons they can take mental health days off school, no questions asked.

Donna also tells me:
How a blog called Ladies Pass It On, started in 2018 to find internet friends, turned into a poetry career with no business plan
Her rule of one spiritual step and one practical step to move towards something you want
What Vinnie Jones taught her about why life’s bags get heavier to carry
Soul flu, and treating a bad mental health day the way you’d treat a virus
What she’d say to every woman who’s been told she’s “too much”
Why beginning has never been her problem, but finishing used to be
The best way to read her new book, and her free journaling group

You can find Donna on Instagram: @donnaashworthwords, and on Facebook in her group Journaling with Donna Ashworth.
Buy her new book The Art Of Being Easily Pleased: https://link.amazon/B09olbhkH

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review — it really helps other people find the podcast. And you can follow the podcast to ensure you don’t miss future episodes. Thank you!

Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I’m a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood and confidence on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It’s Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound
Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer
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I know a lot of parents with questions about the upcoming social media ban for under 16s and my guest on this episode is the best person to answer them. Ian Murray MP is the Online Safety Minister, and I put as many questions to him that parents have been asking. From what happens to your teen’s Snapchat memories come March 2027 to whether kids will still be able to watch YouTube on the family telly.

We also cover:
Roblox and Fortnite - why the focus is on strangers chatting to kids, loot boxes and chatbots, not stopping them playing with their friends
Whether parents who log their kids in are breaking the law
Passport and ID checks - what’s still being decided, and how a third party could confirm your age without the platforms holding your data
Kids who’ve found their people online - what he’d say to parents worried their child will miss out on plans made on Snapchat
What changes for 16 and 17-year-olds - curfews, time limits and less contact from strangers
Why he changed his mind on a ban - from a police briefing on child exploitation to watching how his own daughter uses screens

You can find the government’s free online safety hub for parents here: kidsonlinesafety.campaign.gov.uk.

Thank you to the sponsor of this episode, the Online Responsibility Network. Find out more here: https://www.onlineresponsibilitynetwork.com/

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review - it really helps other people find the podcast. And you can follow the podcast to ensure you don’t miss future episodes. Thank you!

Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I’m a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood and confidence on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It’s Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound
Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer
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This brand new series of Not Another Mummy Podcast kicks off today with a stonker of a guest. I'm joined by the incredible Dr Shefali - clinical psychologist, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the conscious parenting movement, whose work has been championed by Oprah and Pink.

Her two new books, Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons, are hands-on guides to raising confident, resilient kids in a digital world.

During our chat, Dr Shefali explains why seeing our kids’ wins as our own can actually push them away from who they really are, and why the question we should ask ourselves when we’re losing it with them is “is this about my child, or about me?”

We also cover:
Why watching Adolescence on Netflix prompted her to write two books, and why it was the well-meaning parents who stuck with her
Why we should raise our daughters to be heard, not to be good, and what that looks like from age three to 13
How the algorithm targets boys and girls differently, and the “perception prison” she says girls can end up in
Why “I just want my child to be happy” can backfire
The three free things she says any parent can start this week: connect before you correct, protect them from the algorithm, and bring back boredom
Letting our kids be ordinary, and why “average” has become such a dirty word for parents
Reclaiming masculinity as something positive for boys
What to do if you agree with all of this but just don’t have the headspace right now

Follow Dr Shefali on Instagram at @doctorshefali
Check out Raising Conscious Daughters here: https://link.amazon/B04G1qsIv and Raising Conscious Sons here: https://link.amazon/B08ESURVp

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review - it really helps other people find the podcast. And you can follow the podcast to ensure you don’t miss future episodes. Thank you!

Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I’m a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood and confidence on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It’s Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound
Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer
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My guest on this special episode, brought to you in partnership with YouTube, is Dr Garth Graham. As well as being YouTube's Head of Health, Garth is also a dad of four, from age three up to a teenager.

In this episode we talk about the UK's social media ban, whether YouTube counts as social media at all, and how it will impact older kids who use YouTube for school work and studying.

We also chat about how screen time vs play time is balanced in his own house and why the notion of ‘screen time’ isn’t particularly helpful for parents.
Plus, on this episode we cover:

The three-tier system (YouTube Kids, kid accounts, teen accounts) lots of parents have never heard of, including whether it's too late to move an older teen onto one
"Displacement theory" - the test Garth’s wife, a child psychiatrist, uses to work out when screen time's tipped into a problem
The family media contract his household swears by, and why it has to change as the kids get older
His line for handling bedtime pushback - "dude, they must run a class in it"
What he says when parents assume tech companies will always put profit over kids' health

You can find out more about YouTube's parental controls and Family Centre here: families.youtube.com

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review — it really helps other people find the podcast. And you can follow the podcast to ensure you don’t miss future episodes. Thank you!

Not Another Mummy Podcast is brought to you by me, journalist and author Alison Perry. I'm a mum of three and I love interviewing people about parenthood and confidence on the podcast. You can check out my other episodes and you can come chat to me on Instagram: @iamalisonperry or on Threads: @iamalisonperry. You can buy my book OMG It's Twins now.

Music: Epidemic Sound
Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/notanothermummy.
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