My 5 year old son threw something and broke it.

He apologised. And a few days later I almost brought it up again but stopped myself.

Because his apology was meant to close the matter. And dragging it back out wouldn't have been self protection. It would have been punishment.

That moment changed how I think about forgiveness entirely.

In this episode:→ The incident: what happened, what I almost did, and what stopped me→ What motherhood teaches us about forgiveness - how raising children turns it from a grand gesture into a quiet daily choice→ The wider application: friendships, relationships, and ourselves - the difference between forgetting and forgiving, between keeping score and choosing the relationship→ Modelling forgiveness: my son is sensitive and hard on himself - what I show him now about letting things go becomes the voice in his head when he makes his own mistakes

For the mother who wants to love better, hold things more loosely - and raise children who know how to forgive themselves too.

She was told art wouldn't pay. So she did the sensible thing.

Years working in a law firm - capable, competent, but never quite in her own vision. She was good at it. And something was always slightly off.

It took a power cut, a redundancy, and a breastfeeding epiphany to crack things open. And she found her way back.

Leanne Pearce is a portrait artist, twice shortlisted for Portrait Artist of the Year, and the woman who walks into the moments most of us look away from - the ICU, the hospice, the families mid-grief.

She calls it care work. After this conversation, you'll understand exactly why.

In this episode:→ The creative identity she was talked out of - and how she reclaimed it→ What it actually costs to sit with grieving families and turn that into art→ The empathy that is both her greatest gift and her greatest challenge→ How she built her most important work in the margins of motherhood

For the woman who was told to be practical - and never quite stopped hearing the pull of something more.

Raising children is expensive. Nobody is pretending otherwise.

But motherhood will also expose everything about how you use money - the stories you tell yourself, the happiness you think you can buy, the things you spend on without ever asking why.

In this episode:

• The myth: My daughter played with homemade playdough for four hours at nursery. At Christmas, the presents lasted 30 minutes. The box they came in lasted longer than the toys.
• How we see money: Are we spending for them — or for us? And where do we draw the line between giving our children everything and teaching them that everything needs to be given?
• What money is actually for: Freedom. Experiences. The people and passions that truly matter.

For the mother who already knows money isn't the villain.

Unconscious spending is.