ZILLION TRILLION
ZILLION TRILLION
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Motherhood is chaos, and let’s be real—none of us actually know what we’re doing. Hosted by Victoria de la Fuente, a mom, fashion expert, and pro at winging it, Zillion Trillion is where you’ll find real talk about parenting without the sanctimommy nonsense. Each episode, Victoria chats with authors, friends, and other brilliant humans who also happen to be parents about the joys, the meltdowns, and the "is this normal?" moments of raising tiny humans. Think of it as a convo with the mom friend who keeps it brutally honest, slightly sarcastic, and 100% on your side. Because if we’re all just making it up as we go, we might as well do it together. zilliontrillion.substack.com
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The podcast covers themes surrounding parenting, ambition, and societal pressures with episodes like 'Motherhood & Work: Why We’ve Been Told the Wrong Story' exploring the redefinition of success for parents, and 'Rethinking Boyhood: The True Price of Male Privilege' addressing the challenges faced by young boys in today's society. The focus areas include the challenges of balancing work and family, emotional struggles in parenthood, and shifting cultural narratives.
Motherhood is chaos, and let’s be real—none of us actually know what we’re doing. Hosted by Victoria de la Fuente, a mom, fashion expert, and pro at winging it, Zillion Trillion is where you’ll find real talk about parenting without the sanctimommy nonsense. Each episode, Victoria chats with authors, friends, and other brilliant humans who also happen to be parents about the joys, the meltdowns, and the “is this normal?” moments of raising tiny humans. Think of it as a convo with the mom friend who keeps it brutally honest, slightly sarcastic, and 100% on your side. Because if we’re all just making it up as we go, we might as well do it together.
We need to talk about ambition.
Not the clean, empowering, girlboss version we were sold. The shinier, more socially acceptable kind. The one that got dressed up as freedom, identity, feminism, self-worth, and proof that we were doing life correctly. The one so many of us built ourselves around, only to wake up one day exhausted, underwhelmed, and quietly wondering why getting everything we thought we wanted still didn’t feel like enough.
This week, I’m talking to Amil about motherhood, work, burnout, feminism, identity, and the very unsettling possibility that a lot of what we were taught to want was never actually designed to make us happy in the first place.
We talk about the ambition trap, the guilt of wanting a slower life, the impossible standard of being fully present at work and fully present at home, and why so many women still feel like they are failing inside systems that were built to make them fail. We also get into social media, IVF, the politics of modern motherhood, and the strange cultural moment we are in where women are constantly being asked to defend whatever choice they make.
It’s honest, nuanced, a little existential, and exactly the kind of conversation that makes you look at your life differently after it’s over.
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re burnt out, disillusioned, ungrateful, or just finally seeing the game for what it is, this one is for you.
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