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Mambition

Tiffany Scott and Alex Morgan

Redefining motherhood for women who love deeply AND dare greatly. Because being devoted to your kids and wildly ambitious aren't opposites—they fuel each other. Hosted by Tiffany Scott & Alex Morgan.

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August 19 · 13 min
Moments #61 - Why I No Longer Tie My Confidence To How I Look — On Motherhood, Image and Self Worth - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
Pre-mum me wore heels a lot because I tied a significant part of how I felt about myself to how dressed up I was. Motherhood changed that. First out of necessity then out of choice. Jumpsuits, trainers, and somewhere across 3 to 5 years of motherhood the casual dressing stopped feeling like a compromise and started feeling like exactly enough. But there is more to it than just the clothes. In this episode: → The jumpsuit era — optimising to get out of the house with two small children and how that accidentally started everything → Why living in a social media vacuum has been one of the most quietly powerful things for my confidence → What happens when you stop comparing and start actually liking yourself → Why confidence that is not dependent on what you are wearing is a different kind of confidence entirely → What I want my daughter to observe — it is good to look your best, but do not lose yourself in the process It started out of necessity and somewhere in between I found a version of confidence I did not know I was missing.
August 15 · 28 min
#131 - 6 Experiences Before Motherhood That Shaped The Mother I Am Today - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
Not every lesson that shapes you as a mother happens after you become one. This episode is my top six experiences from before motherhood that I now recognise as the foundations of the mother I am today. → Solo travel → Quitting my job and navigating a career pivot → Solitude → Losing my mum at 9 → Frugality with money → Heartbreak Motherhood blows everything wide open. The rules change. The priorities shift. And suddenly you are back to basics in a way you never expected. But you are not starting from scratch. You are anchored by everything you quietly lived before they arrived. That is why these six experiences matter to me.
August 12 · 13 min
Moments #60 -My 3 Year Old Asks For Everything. I Learned To Do The Same — On Asking, Fear and Unlimiting Yourself - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
My daughter asked to go inside a woman's house I had just finished a professional shoot at. My immediate instinct was absolutely not. That is odd and a bit much. She got really upset. And knowing my daughter, really upset has only one destination. So I knocked on the door and asked. The woman said yes. My daughter asked without knowing that asking can be scary. No history of rejection. No internal calculation of whether it was reasonable. Just the ask. I have that history. And I am asking anyway. In this episode: → Why children ask without fear — and what we lose when we stop doing the same → The difference between asking without evidence and asking despite it → Jia Jiang's rejection theory and what deliberately seeking no teaches you about the ask → What my children's unlimited asking has done to my own inhibitions For the woman who has talked herself out of the ask before she has even opened her mouth. This one might change that. 💛
August 8 · 54 min
#130 - The UK's First Parent Discount Platform — How She Engineered Cubbi, Pitched Dragons Den Pregnant and Secured £50,000 - Olivia Davson
She walked into the Dragons Den at 9 months pregnant. She walked out with £50,000. Her son arrived a week later. Olivia is the co-founder of Cubbi — the UK's first discount platform for new and expecting parents. But this episode is not just about the Den moment. It is about everything that came before it and the conviction that carried them through when nothing else could. In this episode: → Pitching Dragons Den at 9 months pregnant — the decision, the room and what happened next → What it actually cost to build Cubbi before anyone was watching → The sister dynamic — building something this significant with someone you trust → The free coffee that got a new mother out of the house for the first time all week → What motherhood gave her as a founder that she could not have had otherwise → Starting before you are ready and why conviction matters more than timing For the mother who is paying attention to the threads quietly coming together in her own life. Sometimes the timing that looks wrong is exactly right.
August 5 · 14 min
Moments #59 - Nobody Told Me What To Actually Look For In A Partner — On Support, Village And The Things That Matter When You Have Kids - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
When I was dating I was filtering for career ambition and drive above almost everything else. Nobody told me that the game changes completely when you have children. Because it turns out that what actually determines how you show up as a mother — whether you can work, build something, stay fit, stay sane — is not your own ability. It is your capacity. And capacity is shaped mainly by the support around you. For me that support comes in the form of my mother in law. As someone who lost my own mum young, that village is not just helpful. It carries me. And it made me think about everything I was not filtering for when I was dating. His parents. His level of kindness on a bad day. Whether he could hold the children independently and fully. Whether your parenting styles would complement each other over the long run. Nobody tells you to look for that. But maybe they should. In this episode: → Why it is not ability that determines what mothers can achieve — it is capacity → What I was filtering for when dating versus what actually matters when you have kids → The village, the in laws and why their support changes everything → Why parenting styles that complement each other matter more than shared interests And honestly? I did not plan any of this. I just happened to fall into the right village.
August 1 · 30 min
#129 - All Inclusive With Kids — Why Being Surrounded By Other Families' Chaos Is Actually The Best Thing - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
It is not a holiday when you go away with small children. It is a change of location. The chaos comes with you! But our first all inclusive family holiday was actually memorable for the right reasons. It was nice to be somewhere designed for exactly the chaos you are carrying. On the plane my daughter was an official flight attendant helper. She made friends with the family sitting next to her before we had even taken off. By the time we landed she had already lived a full social life. And that was just the journey there. In this episode: → Why being surrounded by other families in full chaotic flow is one of the most reassuring things you can do as a parent → Reading a novel for the sake of it → Why the all inclusive format is one that I am tempted to repeat every single year For the parent who is wondering whether a family holiday is actually worth it. It is. Just not in the way you expect.
July 29 · 9 min
Moments #58 - My Daughter Had A Mean Girl Moment — On Group Think, Stepping Back and Raising Resilient Children - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
My 3 year old daughter had a mean girl experience on holiday this week. Every instinct in me wanted to swoop in and fix it. But instead I stepped in gently, with humour, and tried to show her something more useful. As we walked away I told her that sometimes people will be mean. And we practised her stern voice together so she is ready for next time. In this episode: → Fighting the immediate parental instinct to swoop in and fix everything → Why I stepped in with humour rather than to punish or humiliate → The long game — building resilience versus building dependence → Parenting is just trying different things and hoping you land somewhere good enough I do not know if I got it right. But I am hoping I got close enough.
July 25 · 1 hr 12 min
#128 - She Was Made Redundant Because Of Sleep Deprivation. Now She Researches It For A Living — Nicole Ratcliffe
You tried the sleep method and it did not work. That is not your fault. Nicole Ratcliffe knows this better than most. Chronic sleep deprivation after having her child derailed a high-earning career, led to redundancy, and forced her into the most difficult period of her life. What came out of it was a complete reinvention — and a mission to change the way we treat sleep at every level. Because sleep is not a nice to have. It is the foundation that everything else sits on. Your work. Your relationships. Your ability to show up as a parent. Your mental health. When the sleep goes, everything else quietly starts to follow. In this episode: → How sleep deprivation ended Nicole's career and what she built from the wreckage → Why the sleep industry is solving the wrong problem — and why one size fits all advice was never going to work for your family → The research connecting sleep deprivation to parental depression across 1,000+ parents → Why sleep health needs to be treated like a seatbelt — non-negotiable and built into the system For the ambitious mother running on empty and wondering why everything feels harder than it should. This might be why.
July 22 · 10 min
Moments #57 - On Letting Go, Self Forgiveness and The Only Way To Actually Enjoy Parenting - Tiffany Sanya Scott
The passport arrived. One day before we left. 😅 Living on the edge or what? Maybe the passport situation was not just a stressful logistical nightmare. Maybe it was a lesson I clearly still needed. Because the truth is, parenting humbles you constantly. Even with the best plan in place, things will go wrong. And the only way to actually enjoy this season — really enjoy it, not just survive it — is to let go of the need for everything to be perfect. Including yourself. In this episode: → Closing the passport loop → Why self forgiveness is not optional in parenting, it is essential → How shortening the gap between a mistake and moving on changes everything → What our children learn from watching us handle things going wrong → Why grace is something you must give yourself over and over again For the parent who is still being a little too hard on themselves. You are doing your best and it is enough.
July 18 · 57 min
#127 - Building An Immigration Law Firm Around Motherhood — On Bias, Identity and Doing It Differently - Zahra Mohamed
She fled war as a child. Fast forward to today. Zahra Mohamed is the founder of Alcyone Law, a specialist UK immigration law firm, a British Muslim woman, and a mother of three including five year old twins. She has spent 14 years navigating a legal system that was not always designed to welcome her — as a client, as a woman, or as a mother. In this episode: → Fleeing war as a child and how that shaped her path into immigration law → Being mistaken for the interpreter in her own courtroom — and what she chose to do with that moment → Why she is building a law firm entirely on her own terms → The mental load and navigating two very different parenting styles → Why our backgrounds are not barriers — they are the very things that shape our strengths For the woman whose past is heavy but who chooses to build towards the light anyway.
July 15 · 12 min
Moments #56-Recovering Perfectionist — On Mistakes, Self Compassion And The Mother I Am Becoming - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
Two passport blunders. One recovering perfectionist. And a lot of learning to laugh at myself. This episode is about what sits underneath both of those moments. The version of me who used to ruminate for days over a mistake and who took everything seriously. Motherhood is the chaos that humbles you. It is also the thing that quietly teaches you that perfection is a myth. That even the best laid plans will fall apart. That the gap between mistake and self forgiveness does not have to be as long as you think. Mine is getting shorter. I am learning to laugh at the madness a little more. To not take everything quite so seriously. To enjoy the chaos. In this episode: → Why perfectionism and high standards are not the same thing → What motherhood will teach you about self-forgiveness → Why the gap between mistake and moving on is something you can actually shrink → What I am trying to model for my children about grace and getting it wrong For the mother who is still a little too hard on herself. This one is for you. 💛
July 11 · 30 min
#126 - They Were Babies Yesterday — On Year One, Summer Holidays and The Ambition That Grew Alongside Them
They were babies yesterday. And yet this September our boys are both heading into Year One. Which means the baby years, the toddler years, the defining early childhood years that felt simultaneously endless and impossibly fast — are behind us. In this episode Alex and I sit with that for a moment. We also talk about where we both are with work right now — and how our ambition has quietly shifted. We both want careers that are aligned with the kind of mothers we actually want to be. And then there is the summer. Six weeks and endless juggle. The very real need to stay present with our children while not letting everything we have built quietly unravel. In this episode: → How fast the early years go — and what it feels like to look back at the babies they were → Why ambition looks different now and why that is not a bad thing → How we are both trying to align our careers with the mothers we want to be → The summer holiday juggle — presence, work and how we are planning to hold both For the mother who blinked and suddenly has a school aged child.
July 8 · 13 min
Moments #55 - Parenting Irrational Beings — Why Your Emotional Regulation Is The Most Important Thing In The Room - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
My 3 year old experienced five separate, genuine injustices this week. The discovery that her brother was carried in my tummy first. The milk poured without permission. In her mind, every single one was a devastating betrayal. I laugh and cry in equal measure. But I know she is not wrong to feel it. She just does not have the capacity to regulate those feelings yet. That is not her job right now. That is mine. This episode is about that. About what it actually takes to show up for small, intense, beautifully overwhelming people. About why doing something for yourself in the moment can feel completely selfish — and why zooming out changes everything. At this stage, self care is not selfishness. It is infrastructure. In this episode: → Why children are not irrational — they are mainly just unregulated, and that distinction matters → Why regulating your own emotions has to come first → Why the run you almost did not go on, the hour you almost cancelled, pays off in ways the moment cannot show you → Why self care is not a luxury — it is how you show up for their versions of injustice without losing your mind For the parent who knows the emotional stakes are higher at this stage than anyone warned them about. 💛
July 4 · 1 hr 10 min
#125 - Why Successful Women Still Feel Like They Are Drowning —The Ambition Paradox, Perfectionism and The Book That Changes Everything - Anne Welsh
To be brave enough to admit that climbing the right ladder still feels like the wrong life?! Not for the faint hearted. Anne Welsh is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, working parent consultant and author of Ambitious Mother. She has spent years sitting with high achieving women who look completely fine on the outside and are quietly drowning on the inside. She has a name for what they are experiencing. The Ambition Paradox. And she knows exactly what it feels like. Because she lived it herself. In this episode: → The Ambition Paradox — why successful women still feel stuck no matter how much they achieve → The Three Ps — perfectionism, people-pleasing and pretending, and why they are more dangerous in combination → Why your ambition did not shrink when you became a mother — it changed shape → The research that proves your career is a gift to your children, not a theft from them → Why work-life balance is not a destination and chasing it is setting you up to feel like you are failing → What it feels like to want something this much — and be scared of it For the woman who is doing her best, carrying too much, and wondering if it has to be this hard. It does not. You can pre-orderAnne's book Ambitious Mother here -https://www.drannewelsh.com/ambitious-mother-book
July 1 · 10 min
Moments #54 - Why I Immediately Said Yes — Flexible Working, The Village and The Woman I Have Become - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)
A request for a Nigerian volunteer in my son's reception class. I put my hand up immediately. But that "yes" was years in the making — built on flexible work, grandparents already looking after my daughter that exact same morning, and a version of me I have been slowly becoming since long before this moment. In this episode: → What actually had to be true behind the scenes for that yes to even be possible → Why nobody sees the infrastructure behind a yes, only the yes itself → How becoming bolder and more willing to put myself forward shaped that moment → A rare glimpse into my son's carefree nature For the woman who has built herself, quietly, into someone who says yes.

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