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#109 Leading a Movement to Disrupt! (Amen!) — An Interview with Samantha Murrell
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- Mums F**king Matter
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- Dec 2, 2025
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- 4168
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Summary
Samantha Murrell is the Founder of Mothers' Hood. Samantha is leading a movement to disrupt the narratives around motherhood, work and ambition. Motherhood isn't the end of your career, it supercharges it. Samantha supports executive women into and through the transition into motherhood, whether that's for the first or fifth time!) and as they return to work, ready to smash their next big career goals. She is also a podcast host, speaker and author (in waiting!). *TRIGGER WARNING: From 52 minutes to 55 minutes Sam speaks about her struggles with postnatal anxiety. In this episode we speak about: a bit about Samantha and the powerful coaching work she does working with career-led Mamas to help them learn their worth at work and at home how the second wave of feminism affected motherhood the narratives we have been fed and what is important to know as a working Mum in this day and age an awkward truth about school playground chats and social norms the intense Mum guilt Sam used to feel and how she managed and shifted that parenting and reparenting ourselves in the process my tender feelings about solo motherhood and why we NEED a village (and more preparation for parenthood) Sam's experience of *postnatal anxiety and the support her husband provided how workplaces MUST change and be more flexible to welcome all the amazing Mama minds having to leave work through no real choice of their own Themes: motherhood, matrescence, careers and leadership, feminism, burnout, perinatal mental health We mention Amy Taylor-Kabbaz (Episode #35 of MFM), Mel Robbins and Dr Sophie Brock (Episode #43 of MFM). To learn more about Samantha see here on Instagram . And to find her website, click here . At the end, I read a poem by Grace Gulley . Did you enjoy this episode? If so, I would…