# #102 Here's To The 'Wilder' Women; An Interview with Nicky Denson-Elliot of The Wilder Collective Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/mums-f-king-matter-6667701/102-here-s-to-the-wilder-women-an-interview-with-nicky-denson-elliot-of-the-wilder-collective Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/mums-f-king-matter-6667701/102-here-s-to-the-wilder-women-an-interview-with-nicky-denson-elliot-of-the-wilder-collective.md Podcast: [Mums F**king Matter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mums-f-king-matter-6667701) Published: 2025-10-14T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://mums-fking-matter.captivate.fm Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/28fd1a7e-08ee-4a0e-9ccb-b572cb5f3cea.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mums-f-king-matter-6667701/episodes/102-here-s-to-the-wilder-women-an-interview-with-nicky-denson-elliot-of-the-wilder-collective Duration seconds: 3651 ## Resource Nicky is a serial entrepreneur, founder of The Wilder Collective, host of the Women’s Business podcast, and Mum of two children.  Everything Nicky does is about lifting the voices of female founders, and she is here to empower her community of women to break down conventional norms and become free to explore the lives and careers they want — that bit WILDER. Through her podcast, public speaking and writing Nicky loves to explore the topic of learnt sexism — our inherent and programmed self-hatred and limiting beliefs. Learnt sexism doesn’t sound like hate — it sounds like: ‘I’m not ready.’ ‘She’s too much.’ or ‘I could never.’ Those are the beliefs she is ready to dismantle so that women can support each other, AND own their power. (I connected with Nicky on Instagram and invited her on because, as you can probably tell, she totally speaks my language!) TRIGGER WARNING: From 45 minutes 20 seconds to 48 minutes and 20 seconds, Nicky speaks about having a difficult pregnancy, birth and their recovery. In this episode we speak about: a bit about Nicky and what she does how multifaceted we are as women/people the mother load that can often seem invisible to some the Barbie movie and our favourite moments in the film (not the monologue) hobbies that nourish us, whatever age we are advocating for our kids Nicky's beautiful WHY behind 'The Wilder Ones' learnt sexism against other women and the harm it can cause changing her name back to use her birth name and the feelings and discussions around this Nicky's experience of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood (see trigger warning at the top) Themes: anger, burlesque, feminism, creativity, matrescence, the sister wound, birth trauma We mention Ana Forrest, Minna Dubin, Gabor Maté, Greta Gerwig and Zoe Charles. To learn mor… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mums-f-king-matter-6667701/episodes/102-here-s-to-the-wilder-women-an-interview-with-nicky-denson-elliot-of-the-wilder-collective/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/mums-f-king-matter-6667701/102-here-s-to-the-wilder-women-an-interview-with-nicky-denson-elliot-of-the-wilder-collective.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.