The Hard Choices of Working Motherhood - Michelle Hoskin
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Show Notes
Working motherhood, ambition and boundaries — the reality of the choices we make.
Michelle Hoskin built a successful career transforming businesses and speaking on stages around the world. But behind the success sits a question many working mothers quietly carry: what does ambition cost at home?
In this honest and deeply human conversation, Michelle reflects on the choices she made while raising her daughter Ruby — from the early years of parenting and co-parenting while building a business, to the new challenges of raising a teenager. She shares the emotional reality of balancing work and family, navigating menopause at the same time, and learning that there is no such thing as perfect balance — only conscious choices and the courage to live with them.
Michelle also opens up about the mindset that carried her through the hardest moments: a relentless belief in herself, clear boundaries around what matters most, and the self-awareness to recognise when life is asking you to slow down.
For women balancing work, family and the invisible mental load of holding everything together, this episode is a powerful reminder that motherhood and ambition don’t have to compete — but they will always require trade-offs.