My guest this week is CEO and social entrepreneur Sophie Livingstone.

Sophie is currently CEO of Little Village and Chair of the Baby Bank

Alliance, a network of baby banks across the UK providing a vital

lifeline for struggling families. Sophie was previously founding CEO

of City Year UK, a charity enabling young people to tackle inequality

through doing a year of voluntary service in schools. In 2020 she was

awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to

charity. Soph also happens to be one of my

closest friends. Soph, welcome to the Mummafesto.

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics.

My guest this week is Vicki Broadbent, aka Honest Mum. Vicki is a writer, director and author of the UK’s Number 1 parenting blog, Honest Mum. Her blog discusses everything from family life, food, fashion, travel to her experience as a parent and reaches over 8 million parents a month. In 2018 Vicki published her first bestselling book Mum Boss, a manifesto for surviving at work and at home. Vicki, welcome to The Mummafesto.

The Mummafesto podcast is hosted by Stella Creasy, the Labour and Cooperative candidate for Walthamstow. Each week it considers how parenting influences politics.

My guest this week is Dr Martha Deiros Collado, clinical psychologist and mother. Martha is an expert in parenting, child development and pediatric health and specialises in helping children and their parents cope by taking a more holistic approach to parenting. Before focusing on parenting, Martha developed the annual review of psychology protocol for Cystic Fibrosis and set up Teen and Young Adult Cancer services at Guy’s hospital. She also has her own podcast, Talking Sense, where she makes sense of everyday behaviours for struggling parents.