IMAGE The Motherload
IMAGE The Motherload
Podcast Description
The Motherload is a space where modern motherhood is explored with honesty, humor, and heart. Each week, join host Dominique McMullan as she invites inspiring mums you know and love, experts, and friends to share stories, laugh at the chaos, and dive into the real talk about working motherhood, and everything it entails. Because let's be real... we hold hands, hold meetings, and hold it together (sometimes brilliantly, sometimes barely) but we don't do it alone. The Motherload Podcast is your new village -- we’re here, to lighten the load.The IMAGE Motherload is powered by Peugeot and sponsored by its4women, Liffey Valley, and Avoca. Visit our Motherload Hub to follow weekly updates including interviews, events, videos and podcast episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The show dives into themes of motherhood, work-life balance, mental health, and societal expectations, featuring episodes that tackle topics like neurodivergent motherhood and raising feminist boys, providing relatable insights and practical advice.
IMAGE The Motherload is a space where modern motherhood is explored with honesty, humour and heart.
Each week, join host Dominique McMullan as she invites inspiring mums you know and love to share stories, laugh at the chaos and dive into the real talk about working motherhood and everything it entails. Because let’s be real – we hold hands, hold meetings, hold it together (sometimes brilliantly, sometimes barely) but we don’t do it alone.
IMAGE The Motherload is powered by Peugeot and sponsored by Revive Active, Avoca, Liffey Valley, Aptamil Advanced and Tigers Childcare
Lisa Wilkinson has spent almost three decades standing beside women. A barrister specialising in family law and coercive control, she has also been an entrepreneur, doula, yoga teacher, childcare provider and wellbeing pioneer. While those careers may seem worlds apart, they are all driven by one purpose: making women's lives safer, healthier and fairer.
In this powerful episode of IMAGE The Motherload, Dominique and Lisa discuss coercive control, domestic abuse, family courts, birth rights, informed consent, childcare, motherhood and why so many of the systems women rely on continue to let them down. Lisa explains why abuse often escalates after separation, how coercive control can continue through legal processes, the warning signs every woman should know, and why listening to women's lived experiences has never been more important.
This is a difficult conversation in places, but an essential one.
If this episode raises concerns for you or someone you know, support is available through Women's Aid on 1800 341 900 or at womensaid.ie.
IMAGE The Motherload is powered by Peugeot and sponsored by Liffey Valley, Avoca, Revive Active, Aptamil Advanced and Tigers Childcare.
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