Mum's The Word! The Parenting Podcast - HANNAH COOPER-DOMMETT: Live from Big Feastival

Episode Date: August 31, 2025

This week, Mum’s The Word goes LIVE from the Exchange at Big Feastival 2025, as Georgia Jones is joined by model, TV presenter, and co-host of the hit comedy podcast Never Have I Ever, Hannah Cooper...-Dommett.In this heartfelt and hilarious chat, Hannah opens up about the reality of juggling motherhood with caring for her mum, who continues to need ongoing support following a brain tumour diagnosis. She shares how she imagined entering motherhood with her mum by her side and how she’s learned to navigate a different reality while also working closely with Brain Tumour Support.Of course, it wouldn’t be a live Mum’s The Word episode without plenty of laughs! Georgia and Hannah dive into:🎵 The nursery rhymes they’d happily ban forever😎 When you officially become a “cool mum”🍼 Why everyone’s childcare situation looks different (and why we shouldn’t judge)🤭 And the moment Georgia totally forgets she’s on stage… and swears in front of the kids!An honest, funny, and emotional conversation about the ups, downs, and surprises of motherhood.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello. I am Georgia Jones and this is Mum's the Word. I have, hey, woo! Thank you. So today we have got a fabulous guest. She is a model. She is a businesswoman, an entrepreneur. She is beautiful and she is dressed. Exactly the same as me. We didn't plan this. So welcome to Mom's the Word. Hannah Cooper, Domit! Take a seat, take a seat. Thank you so much. Welcome to the lounge. Oh my gosh, thanks for being here. Welcome. Welcome to the podcast, starting it strong.
Starting point is 00:00:44 I'm a bit hot so this jacket might come off at some point. So Hannah, welcome. Thank you for being on the pod. Thank you for having me. I'm not going to lie. It's not started out too smoothly for me. So Hannah, basically, I got a message from Hannah. yesterday and she said Georgia there's been a bit of a disaster I was like oh god she's going to
Starting point is 00:01:04 cancel on me this is it ruined so tell us tell us what happened Hannah basically you know you have all your childcare options you have your back you have your two that you trust then you have your one that you're like if I have to and then you're your two that like they barely know the child but we'll go with it I was I've exhausted five child care options and everyone was on holiday or busy or had another child and I was like so selfish of them I've got Georgia's podcast to do That's the word. So we've just taken him with us. Wild's behind, backstage.
Starting point is 00:01:35 White noise is on Max, Max, Max. Yeah. Fans on. He is fingers crossed snoozing away, and I've got my agent looking after. Paul Lucy. He's agent is back there, not watching the show,
Starting point is 00:01:48 just childcare. I'm not sure if she's going to charge me 20%, but let's see. But he went to sleep like clockwork. That never happens, does it? They never go to sleep when you want them to. But today, he obviously knows you've got a really important day. I'd like to think that he's considerate like that.
Starting point is 00:02:05 I mean, we did do sleep training in the beginning, and I will say I sold my life that first year that he was here. We were so routine. And I feel like kind of now the sacrifice is sort of paying off where like, okay, I can kind of know. I mean, this is obviously a very unique situation where there's like madness everywhere you look. But fingers crossed, he should be down for the whole set.
Starting point is 00:02:31 And now you know I've jinxed it, and he's going to be here in 10 minutes sitting next to me, isn't he? Last time we did a podcast together. Now, we've done one before. We've done two before. And it was your podcast. Never have I ever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:44 Ended in disaster, guys. Not going to lie. Because what happens is if you're not media trained and you go on a podcast that's a comedy podcast, you should never say a joke. Just don't do it. Because what will happen is it'll get printed in the headlock, lines and it doesn't write down very well on paper when you make a joke about somebody.
Starting point is 00:03:03 I do think it is funny with the world of podcasting, especially with ours. Never have I ever do with my husband, Joel. And we sort of are so relaxed at home. There's one thing doing it in a studio environment where you're so sort of like on. But at home, you know, sometimes we have a glass of wine or we're just sort of like honestly annoyed at each other. Like he hasn't done the chores that morning and then we're going straight to record. And I'm like, oh, you're amazing. No. But then it all comes out on podcast and I sort of forget that anyone listens because it's just you two and I do say to Joel God the amount of stuff that you do see it feels so comfortable to say the Daily Mail could have a field day and the mad thing is is they don't really pick up on it
Starting point is 00:03:42 and then later it could be a very random niche thing that they do pick up on and like you say it's out of context but what I will say is the the perks of social media these days is that you can own your narrative yeah so I mean as much as we love or hate the Daily Mail, sometimes it is hilarious, and you can screenshot it and go, you made a typo there, you know? That isn't actually what I said. I hate it. They keep calling me something. I think it's like 42, and I'm 34. And I'm like, everything else, print about, you know, the affair that we had or whatever, but don't call me 42. I'm like, you're aging me before I've even got there. How dare there. Get your facts right. So Hannah, right, this is a parenting podcast,
Starting point is 00:04:22 we digress. So you have a lovely little boy, Wild. Who is? How old? He's two next month. Two next month. And he came into the world. And when he came to the world, it was a little bit different for you. Because I assume you always thought that you were going to have, you know, your mum there, ready to go. Free childcare. We all love a bit of free childcare from our grandparents, don't we? And she wasn't for certain reason. So tell us a little bit about what happened and how that affected your parenting journey. Yeah, so my mom was a primary school teacher's assistant for year one for like 25 plus years. So we always had this joke, you know, I'll quit my job, pay me £100 a month when you have kids and I'll be childcare. And I was like, I should have done it yesterday. I'm taking you up on that offer. And then like you say, you sort of have these sometimes romanticised ideas of what your childcare set up could look like. And that for me was my mum being there most of the time and sort of just having that extra pair of hands. And then, yeah, kind of things took a big turn during the pandemic
Starting point is 00:05:27 where we found out that my mum had a brain tumour and she needed to get it removed in surgery and then during that surgery she ended up having a big hemorrhage bleed on her brain which led to her being unable to walk, paralysed on her right side and one of the big things as well was not being able to talk and it's something that's called aphasia. when that happened four years ago of course your world
Starting point is 00:05:51 sort of falls apart and you're trying to you know I was looking after mum and I was very much her caregiver and it did push back us having children because I had to spend time looking after mum and I'm very grateful that mum is still here she's learnt to walk again
Starting point is 00:06:09 she's like stronger on her right side not strong enough unfortunately maybe to fully deal with the two year old and sort of the quickness that you need to follow them is quite tough but she can be present and do a babysit here and there but the big one for me is the ephasia which a lot of people are starting to get to know about
Starting point is 00:06:29 with stars like Bruce Willis etc having a similar thing but it does make it very tricky and I'm finding it especially now that Wild is too the sort of level of language that my child has and my mum has is very similar oh is it yeah and don't get me like I mean this would be a lot for her to do but like a group of four or whatever would be she would manage and sort of no background noise like we don't realize it here but we can hear stages we can hear people talking which
Starting point is 00:06:58 she can't filter that out so then she gets very tired and a two-year-old can make you tired at the best of times alone if you have a brain injury you know definitely tired yeah and and so that's been something that I'm still kind of going through now where I say I find it a little bit sort of I don't of triggering is a strong word, but definitely difficult to hear my mum struggling with Wilde's books and also that turning point where he will eventually speak better than my mum and sort of explaining to Wilde that why Nanny doesn't speak properly or normally, but equally like Joel is very much like, I think it's so important for our children to sort of be exposed to all kinds of people and learn that everyone's
Starting point is 00:07:41 got their own thing going on and that's okay. but yeah it was a sort of big you know there's one thing becoming a mom and sort of taking on all those changes but i also sort of very much hid my you know struggles and difficulties in the beginning because i never wanted to worry her so it just meant in a way we sort of had to switch things up and we sort of got help through a nanny that helped us do the sleep training and and i never saw that for my life and i also feel like the word nanny can sound so like privileged in a way and I definitely sort of I have trust issues at the best of time and I think bringing someone new in I didn't want that to represent like I wasn't coping or couldn't cope but in a
Starting point is 00:08:27 strange way it was a blessing in disguise because she taught me so much and she was so experienced to help me in those you know first sort of months and I could lean on her and I mean she's definitely a friend for life and I feel so grateful and also now I am glad that my mum can have that pure nanny time you know she's she's grandma and she can do whatever she needs to do and there's no pressure in that way and who knows like recovery is slow and it keeps going and maybe one day she will be able to do things but that was definitely sort of a shock for me on top of postpartum and becoming on top of having a baby I think that's it I think that's what people don't always realize is like what goes on behind closed dogs
Starting point is 00:09:13 and, you know, you might say, oh, I've got a nanny, and then people are very quick to judge and go, oh, it's all right for some. And they don't realize, actually, the reason you have to have a nanny is because your mum was very unwell. My mum and dad live five hours away.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Unfortunately, if I want to go and do a supermarket shop, I can't just knock on their door and go, can you just watch Cooper for an hour? I would say when she left as well, I sobbed on that driveway. I was like, please, like, because almost it delayed. the reality of being on your own because I sort of put this safety net in and it sort of made me
Starting point is 00:09:52 I don't know maybe not sort of well I'd never felt alone which was like so such a blessing but then when she left that's when I think every sort of delayed emotion came for me yeah which was very interesting I think that does happen though I think you push as mothers especially we push things down and push things down and then we just reach a breaking point don't we and then we are you either get really ill, or we explode, or have a mental breakdown. Well, you just feel like you can't complain because it looks like you're not coping. And then people will always be like, well, do you need more help? And you're like, well, no, I don't want that to be a reflection of my mothering, you know, my parenting.
Starting point is 00:10:29 But I do think you do just have to like be a team in all of this and anyone, even if it's a neighbor that would come around or just like hold the baby while you have a cup of tea for five minutes. I read a great book and I think I read it a little bit too not late but it's by Zoe Blackski and it's called Mother Kind She's been on the pod? Has she been on the? Oh my God I think I'm her number one fan
Starting point is 00:10:52 and I honestly think I should work on commission because the amount of times I talk about this book but it was like it was the book that I needed when I didn't realize. I just felt validated and that's the great thing with this podcast is that mothers can listen to it whilst they're up in the middle of the night
Starting point is 00:11:09 maybe struggling with, you know, breastfeeding and all these things. You just feel less alone. And that's the biggest thing I've learned is to talk. Oh, 100%. It's that thing where you feel alone as a new mum, though, isn't it? And you can't explain it because you could have everybody. You could have the best support network. But there's that bit at 3 o'clock in the morning where your child is crying and you can't keep them settled.
Starting point is 00:11:33 And you're just on your own and you don't know how to deal with it. Yeah. And I think it's the standards. that you hold yourself to before, like, before you're like, I could do this, this, this, this. And you still think that you could do this, this and this. And something's got to give. And I know for me in particular, like, I struggled with that.
Starting point is 00:11:51 Like, I definitely put that sort of, everything's got to be perfect. Everything's got to be right. And if I drop something or I, you know, forgot to bring nappies for wild or whatever, like, I'd be like, oh my God, I am the worst mother in the world. But what I love about it is that you can be in a park and just ask anyone for a nappy Or you can just like almost blink twice and someone another knows that you need just a moment. Just do a sigh.
Starting point is 00:12:13 You're like, are you okay? I do love the community of new mums and I think it's a club that I never knew that I wanted to need, you know, almost. Yeah, it is but, and I remember I was the first out of all my best friends to have a baby. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:12:30 See, I was the last. Oh, were you? Yeah. Look at you. Because I was literally like, it's really hard girls. Slowly but surely They started to have babies
Starting point is 00:12:41 Which was great And then they were like George, we totally get it We see why this is really hard I was like yeah I can imagine that as well Because especially being the first In your friendship group
Starting point is 00:12:50 Maybe your girls and stuff are like Let's go out here Like it's no problem Just bring the baby Like they might not quite understand Oh Hannah I used to do it to my sister And I remember
Starting point is 00:12:59 I used to message to my friends And I was like I'm so annoyed She's literally like Two hours late Because she said that the baby's had a poo And I just don't know, how long does a poo take to clean up? They had a baby.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I was like, ah, a Poonami. I didn't know they existed. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, I actually feel embarrassed about the things that I probably did say to some of the girls when I wasn't aware or, like, couldn't relate. I remember as every friend got pregnant, I sort of made sure that I went on this big brunch with them. And like, it was a big, like, tell me everything before you leave me forever. Because you change.
Starting point is 00:13:35 You do change. Yes. you sort of come around, I think, I mean, I definitely in hindsight now, that 18 month thing is a thing where I'm like, oh, I think I'm back. Let's put the Diamante shorts on. She's back. We put them on. Before that, like, especially even on his first birthday, I was like, I'm fine. I've got this. I'm fine. I've nailed the first birthday party. She's back. I wasn't. Only now, and I'm only talking a two-year-old that I go, oh, that took a long time to get back to me. you think you're there, don't you? Or you, like, put this mask on and pretend, and you're like,
Starting point is 00:14:12 I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm absolutely fine. My friends know when I'm not fine because I disappear. I like to do a disappearing act. I'm just not chill anymore. That's the girl that I miss. I remember when I met Joel, and we were both chill, you know, when you're in that first year of dating and you're like, whatever you want to eat, no, it's fine, and we'll just eat, like, you know, Geras at the festival, like, I don't care, like, da-da, like all these sort of, and then you sort of get longer into the relationship and then like more serious things happen in the relationship and you realize that one of you's got to step up and make a decision and then you're like that was me and then I was like the less chill one and then you have a child and then you become less chill
Starting point is 00:14:47 and then you sort of mourn the girl that used to be like woo yeah you're like I want to be for losing francy free but I can't be I've got responsibility I have things to do and this is the problem now when I do have childcare they always say like partying with parents with childcare is the best night out that you'll ever have because I don't know my limits because I'm like I've got six hours I'm going for it oh I'm going for this and it's actually a little bit disgusting especially when you know you're coming home at like 10 o'clock say if it's out early back by 10 you're like I can drink shit loads you know it's like I'll be absolutely fine then the next day you're like ah it used to be the walk of shame you know that you might have when you were younger and now it is the walk of shame
Starting point is 00:15:32 through my front door when it's like Joel's mum or like, you know, someone looking after Wild and I'm like, and I'm just like, hi, I'm fine, you go, I've got this and I'm like, I don't think I've got this but hopefully you'll sleep and it will be alright. But you've got to take those moments and I think that's also took a while like I'm sure
Starting point is 00:15:50 it did for any new mum is to sort of stop worrying about them and that time we used to be like I'd go out for a coffee, the whole coffee I'd end up worrying about them and I've slowly narrowed that down to like for the first half an hour I'll worry and then, Tuddles. Yeah, see ya.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Bye. The phone goes on silent. That's when I've got vibrations, but it's all right. Especially if Dad's on duty. For a while, I remember, actually, it was a couch. She sat in the audience there, said to me, Georgie, you've just got to let him do it. Just let him a parent.
Starting point is 00:16:17 I'm like, okay, I'll try. And now I'm like, do know what? I'm gone. Bye. I'm at a festival all weekend. And I will be drunk for majority of it. So see you. If it's an emergency, three rings.
Starting point is 00:16:30 And then I'll know. I do find it annoying. Like I had, the other day I was out and he double called me and I was like oh my god double call oh we thought about that today a double call I really you know something bad's happened yeah I'm like that's not an accident and he honestly just called me about something so it was like an opinion on on something as vague as like to do with the supermarket shop or whatever and I was like I genuinely thought something was wrong with wild like why are you sabotaging my child care day like go yeah this is the one
Starting point is 00:17:00 A bit of peace that I get. Yeah. Dave, I had it about bin bags once. I was like, I've never been more livid in my life. To get a double text about bin bags. I was like, no, thank you. I am off. Off duty.
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Starting point is 00:18:28 because if I was put on the spot with this, I wouldn't know. And thank God for Hannah's reply, because it made me feel like a little bit more of a normal mum. So I said, Hannah, if you could put a nursery rhyme in the bin, what would it be? And she went, to be honest, George, I don't really know. I made him in the many nursery rhymes. I was like, oh my God, thank God me neither, because I can't remember the rainbow. I cannot remember.
Starting point is 00:18:54 You know the song? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The colours. Yeah. The lyrics are the colours. Thank you. Yeah, that's what I meant, yeah. Not like the cartoon.
Starting point is 00:19:02 Honestly, I think it's one of the things that I'm most sort of embarrassed about as a parent where I'm like, I mean, I definitely sang these songs as a kid. But I don't know why I only just remember kumbaya. Like, I'm like, and that's not a nursery rhyme. But like, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle little star. I mean, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle little star, twinkle, little star.
Starting point is 00:19:21 No, it's not twice, is it? Is it? Tinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are. Now, is it up above? Do you want to come and sing it? us. Is it up above the stars so bright, or is it above the sky so high?
Starting point is 00:19:37 Is it stars so bright? Star, stars so high. See, look. See, everybody's so high. Everyone's confused here. I mean, we've got kids leaving. They're disgusted. They're like, how dare you?
Starting point is 00:19:49 They're disgusted that we don't know. We've lost the crowd. Not your twinkle, twinkle little star. They can't believe it. Another one. Horrible women. Teddy Bears picnic. I'm going, if you.
Starting point is 00:19:58 you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise if you go down to the woods today you're sure of a biggest surprise if you or i or anyone knows the place is where the teddy this is beautiful hannah carry on today's the day the teddy bears i've made that up like i think i might go into my own album of nurse i think somebody's trying to get a record deal on my podcast i know what you doing watch out maria watch out maria she's on the main stage later doing Tinkle, Tinkle, little star. Imagine, Hannah's on the main stage later. We'll see you there.
Starting point is 00:20:29 And I'll be like Robbie Williams where I go, everyone, sing it for me. Yeah, but you can. I've got no idea. Rookier, you took your microphone away from your mouth and said, sing it with me. She hasn't got it, she's not got it. Stick to the podcast, Hannah.
Starting point is 00:20:42 So, no, she rhymes, no go. We don't know what we put in the bin. No. No. That's it. I mean, all of it. I'm more like, if Wilde wants to sing, you know, do a leaper, let's do it.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Let's go for it. I agree, actually. Danny's tried to get Cooper into Oasis. Anyone on the Demon Hunters' K-pop thing? Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh. Are you there yet? No, but I'm not even in, I'm not even in the blue area yet.
Starting point is 00:21:09 There's a lot of eras that I've kind of... Blue is great, right? Yeah. Because it's funny. Is Pepper the naughty? Pepper's a bit of a bitch, isn't she? Oh, really? We don't like pepper.
Starting point is 00:21:20 People are like, I think they're saying Kill Pepper. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot. children in the tent right don't listen to anything I just said this lovely little girl in yellow I am so sorry never swear
Starting point is 00:21:33 okay it's not it's naughty very naughty I do actually swear on the mum's the word podcast so if you did want an un-PC version then go there right so let's stop swearing moving on less about pepper the better so Hannah
Starting point is 00:21:48 what is in your handbag that would say I am a mum or a Milton White Milton wipe. I am obsessed with Milton wipes. And any sort of wipe, to be fair, Milton wipes a random car. Like, can I just say, I hope people know this, but wet wipes come in the small pack now. Yeah. The water wipes. The water wipes, yeah. They come in the small pack and it honestly, it changed my life. My back aches got so much better. What? Oh, from carrying water white. I was carrying a big pack. Honestly, the little things that make me happy. I was shopping. I was like, oh my God. God, they come in mini. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:26 And I'm like, this is how exciting my life gets now. Well, Hannah, I'm in massive agreement with you because I'm here with two of my best friends. All three of us are mums. And the main thing that has been unpacked since we've got into our tent is three bags of wet wipes. Yeah, yeah. We are going to be so squeaky clean. What do you call a wash when you do it with a wet wipe? A hobath.
Starting point is 00:22:50 A hobath. Children, Georgia. Children, children. They don't know what that means. We'll be doing a few of them this weekend. Anybody else? Oh, he is? Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:23:00 He's only seven, so let's maybe don't be doing one of them. Right. What, Hannah, do you do as a parent that you said that you vowed you would never do? It would be like, oh, like, why do you have to change your life for a child? Like, they just come along with you. And I'm like, nah. Apart from today. Apart from today.
Starting point is 00:23:20 But, like, I definitely wanted to be that cool. So did I'm just, I don't think I've hit, I've hit it. I mean, yeah, okay, she puts on a short and she thinks she's still got it. But he got it. It's just like my attitude towards parenting where I'm so like, oh my God, my precious prince, you lie down, I will be fine. You eat organic, I'll eat takeaways, you know, like everything is about him. I think that might change, it might balance out, but I definitely feel like I'm just sort of his servant. You are, so we are up until at what age.
Starting point is 00:23:56 I do not at 18. I want to be a bit more carefree. Like I just, like, I'm so sort of inspired when I come to festivals and I see, like, mums just get on with it. And I really want to be that person. But I know inside I'm just got so much anxiety and panicking that he hasn't gone down by one o'clock. I mean, I know he's not done a poo today.
Starting point is 00:24:16 And I'm like, that's happening at a festival. Great. And I've put him in dungarees. And this is the sort of thing that goes through my mind. Isn't it mad that you get well into their poo schedule as well, don't you? You're like, oh, God, he's not had a poo today. He's going to be so out of softs there. It's like shoving a banana down him.
Starting point is 00:24:31 Like he's like baby born. It will come out the other end. Like his dink. That'll make you a poo. Prunes. See, it's not cool. That's the problem. I'm thinking about poo schedules, sleep schedules whilst I'm at a festival.
Starting point is 00:24:43 I mean, I think we probably all are, to be fair. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people watch. I haven't pooed in three days. You haven't. Poor Hannah. She's not. You might be. zone that in three days. No, I may well do. I don't know how much I like pooing in a
Starting point is 00:24:58 port-a-lood, to be honest with you. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see that. We know. Text me. I don't know why my podcast always seems to go downhill and goes towards pooing or farting at some point or else where and offend a lot of children. So sorry about that. I shouldn't be allowed to do it, but I do. I am the same with you though with routine, Hannah, because I was like, I am not going to have a single bit of routine for my child. I'm just going to take him. wherever I go he's going to be chilled it's going to be great and then you realize really quickly don't you that like that just doesn't work a lot of the time yeah from like you know at a festival where we'll be like it's fine they can have a late night we don't mind if they're a bit aggy
Starting point is 00:25:37 we'll let them off and or on holiday exactly exactly now I only still need to enter that cool mum era for sure you will you'll get there I promise how old cooper now seven are you I've got a good few years on you now and I'm still got to wait five years She's got five years. You can do it, Hannah. A prize you'll get there. I'm also not a cool moment. I am very, very, very high maintenance
Starting point is 00:26:01 when it comes to looking after Cooper. And I don't know why we then think that we're knacks and we're not. We're just organised. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We are the ones that have to organise every single thing and think about every single thing. But I purposely, I have started doing,
Starting point is 00:26:19 it's maybe a little bit of a vicious game with Joel where I do go like, well, you pack the bag if you're taking in, whatever. Yeah, just sort of lunch. You got nappies, right? And the other day you went, yeah. And I was like, okay. And that day, I'm not even joking, wild pooed three times. We had so many wheeves.
Starting point is 00:26:36 We had so many accents. And we ran out of nappies. And I was like, in the inside of me, I was like, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. And I was like, you deal with it. Great. But that's the thing. I think that's the, I definitely, I mean, I'm not here to slag off, Joel. But here we go.
Starting point is 00:26:51 let's go let's go it is like you know he's a comedian he's in his own world it's like he's very used to like he's gonna hate me saying this runners don't give me wrong
Starting point is 00:27:01 he's low maintenance he's chill but he's a little bit away with the fairies so I feel like almost I'm checking that he's got his coat I'm checking that Wiles got his coat I'm checking that Joel's got his nappies
Starting point is 00:27:11 I'm checking that Wiles got his nappies and I think that's the thing you do sometimes just have to pull back because he's fully capable but it's me in my head being a control freak Do you think we make them less capable? Well, I think, yeah, I think in a way you sort of allow for it,
Starting point is 00:27:26 especially like you say, in the first sort of six months, I just felt like I needed to know everything. And actually, like, the best thing you can do at that time is like, you know, like Joel made sure that he did the sort of the hello freshies or like did the steriliser and give them jobs. And you can like, they can teach you that later on the line. Otherwise it's like, it's exhausting, you know? Oh, it is.
Starting point is 00:27:50 you can't remember anything and then you put so much pressure on yourself that you've forgotten that one tiny thing it's not fair it's like a team you know it takes a village and that that village is already gone and if you're lucky there's two of you doing it and you kind of have to hope for the best it is it's full on and you've got to make your village sometimes as well like you know you with your mum and me with parents not being nearby you do you have to kind of form your little village and then use them and actually genuinely use them as support like you know like you need to, rather than just being, I'm fine, everything's absolutely fine. I'm getting on really well. And I think allow a ball to drop here and there and make that sacrifice. Like, I think
Starting point is 00:28:30 that that's still a process that I'm going through where I think I can still do it all. And I think I just need to like, you know, by saying no to a friend doesn't mean they're not going to be your friends anymore. If you can't make, you know, a dinner or a coffee or whatever, it's just like you have to look after yourself first. Yeah, I think that's it. And I think as well, if your friends are amazing they understand that 100% and they'll go it's fine she's tapped out she needs to just have that little like moment where she's just... Except when she's on a night out
Starting point is 00:28:57 and they're like Hannah you need to go home Hannah gut it's time me and Hannah realise very quickly we're very very similar people in that sense last time I was here at Feastable quick story for you with the girls I had to have a very very long discone app and when I say long
Starting point is 00:29:17 I mean the entire day outside side of the tent it was hot it was sweaty i was ever soaking over but i was child free yeah too excited how are you going to pace like your three days now i don't know okay learn nothing learn nothing it's probably going to be very messy and wonderful and i'm very very excited so just before we go hannah is also a boss b i tc hitch actually aren't you i've only been a boss b i tc h h h for this year though i'm so did i spell it right then i did okay five kids can spell these days kids can spell oh no oh i forgot that bit yeah again like you sort of put these pressures on yourself after having a kid like what's you know i i've i've modeled for like 15 16 years and and that's i'm not doing that anymore
Starting point is 00:30:07 mainly out of just i just couldn't fake it in my eyes anymore and then things start to move and it's just like mentally you just for it's harder so you sort of you know go into the social media well and do content creation and Instagram and then this sort of year I've been really lucky to work with Warehouse and have my own collection and as modelled by us. I have a jewellery collection with Posh Totti
Starting point is 00:30:30 and kind of sort of, I'm really trying to tell myself to not have like this imposter syndrome because I almost can't believe that this has happened this year and I sort of did put pressure on myself after having Wilde to get back to work and I went back to podcasting three weeks after he was born because I was doing it in the house. So I was like, I'm fine.
Starting point is 00:30:52 I can sit on a couch and talk. But the problem is, emotionally, I probably wasn't in the right place to start talking three weeks after giving birth. Hence why I'm so surprised, the Daily Mail don't pick up on it. They're going to troll back. Yeah, this is someone from the Daily Mail here right now.
Starting point is 00:31:05 We've got to troll back through Hannah's old podcast. It's just like, it's so interesting. And I feel like, I feel like proud of myself this year that I've ticked those boxes that I've wanted to. But I've also learned to take the heat off myself. a little bit and just especially with social media it's such a weird world if you're not if you're in it and not in it because it's sort of you know you you're working for yourself you're freelance you don't know when the next thing is going to come in so then you sort of end up taking everything or having
Starting point is 00:31:35 nothing and but I will say like having a child has made me sort of prioritize what I do actually want to be seen doing and want to do and what works around wild so I do sort of feel appreciative of of that and you know when he was born i remember the birth certificate and it says you know mum occupation and i was like i think i'm a model and i was like she's definitely not modeling anymore and it's kind of triggered this thing in me where i was like who am i what am i like what am i like what am i doing and i think we do live in a world where it's like almost one thing's not enough and then i sort of go i'm this i'm this i'm this and this and a mother where i'm like actually it's like, I'm a mother and that is my, that is a full-time job.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Amen. Well, Saturday. Yeah. And, you know, that's the first. And then everything else is there's a bonus, you know. Yeah. Well, you should be proud of yourself. We all should. Anyone here that is a parent or not, be proud of yourself. But Hannah, it has been absolutely delightful. Thanks for having me. I do love a waffle. Oh, we love a waffle. We could waffle for hours, but we are going to have to stop and you are going to have to go. And what's music? And I'm sorry, It might not be as good as me and Hannah, actually. Well, I might be on later, so remember, twinkle, twinkle. Well, actually, our wristbands do say performer on them.
Starting point is 00:32:49 So I'm channeling my inner... What type? Oh, I don't know in these outfits. What type are we? But Hannah, it's been wonderful having you. Thank you for having me. I hope you guys have all enjoyed. Thank you so much for watching.
Starting point is 00:33:11 Thank you.

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