Lessons From Our Mothers

What’s the most important thing you’ve learnt from your mum? How have the maternal figures in your life shaped you? In Lessons from Our Mothers, sisters Isabella and Cressida explore the wisdom, love, and lessons passed down through generations. They speak with remarkable people like Kate Winslett, Mary Berry, Alain de Botton and Dr Shefali about the maternal figures - biological or not - who influenced them. The life lessons they’ve carried forward, the things they’ve chosen to leave behind, and how certain experiences have informed the way they parent. Whether they had a strong relationship or a more complicated one, they reflect on how that bond - or absence of it - helped shape who they are today. Thoughtful and heartfelt, these conversations uncover the power and importance of motherhood in all its forms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Episodes

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Jools Oliver: “It's ruined 45 years of my life thinking it's something else”

25 Oct 2026 · 37 min

Susan George: “We can't look back. We must look forward in life”

18 Oct 2026 · 33 min

Sarah Wright Olsen: “Our school was gone, our community was gone, our home was gone”

11 Oct 2026 · 44 min

Sir Michael Morpurgo: “My mother gave me the magic of storytelling”

4 Oct 2026 · 49 min

Poppy Jamie: Lessons in Intuition, Magic and Trusting Yourself

5 Jul 2026 · 46 min

Dr Lousie Newson: Lessons in Hormonal Wellbeing- From Misinformation to Empowerment

28 Jun 2026 · 47 min

Jennifer O’Connell: Lessons in Putting Women at the Heart of Health Research

21 Jun 2026 · 36 min

Dr Karan Rajan: Lessons In The Simple Health Habits Everyone Should Know

14 Jun 2026 · 40 min

Natalie Imbruglia: Fame, ‘Torn’ And Her Journey To Motherhood

7 Jun 2026 · 43 min

Nerina Pallot: Lessons In Resilience, Rejection, and Finding Her Way

31 May 2026 · 37 min

Jessica Brown Findlay: Lessons From the Women Who Helped Me Find My Voice

24 May 2026 · 47 min

Dacher Keltner: The Science Behind Awe and Where to Find It

17 May 2026 · 39 min

Jessica Urlichs: The Poetry That Found Me in Motherhood

10 May 2026 · 37 min

Pearl & Daisy Lowe: An ADHD Diagnosis That Explained Everything

15 Mar 2026 · 49 min

Nazanin Boniadi: Raised by Women Who Refused to Be Silenced

8 Mar 2026 · 48 min

Two Cultures. One Truth: Gurinder Chadha on Identity, Belonging & Owning Your Story

1 Mar 2026 · 58 min

Gabriella Wilde: How My Mother Showed Me We Can Always Transform Ourselves For The Better

22 Feb 2026 · 49 min

Tilly Rose: My Mother’s Relentless Quest to Save my Life

15 Feb 2026 · 52 min

Julia Samuel: How a Therapist Deals with a Complex Maternal Relationship

8 Feb 2026 · 45 min

Riley Keough: The Gift and Challenge of Finishing Lisa Marie Presley’s Memoir

1 Feb 2026 · 46 min

Kate Winslet: From “Put Up and Shut Up” to Raising Confident Children

25 Jan 2026 · 1h 4m

India Rakusen: The surprising truths about motherhood uncovered making BBC’s ‘Child’

14 Dec 2025 · 51 min

Chelsea Hirschhorn: How her mother’s influence ignited a revolution in mothercare

7 Dec 2025 · 41 min

Alex Ikonn: How extreme challenge shaped his mindset, attitude and choices

23 Nov 2025 · 38 min

Alan Titchmarsh: From Yorkshire roots to national treasure

16 Nov 2025 · 47 min

Donna Lancaster: The pain of being “unmothered” and the journey back to love

9 Nov 2025 · 46 min

Jamie Laing: How his mum shaped his life, business, and views on parenthood

2 Nov 2025 · 38 min

Jo Woodhurst: How her mother’s cancer journey inspired a life of wellness

26 Oct 2025 · 45 min

Tanya Burr: How A YouTube Star Navigates Motherhood in the Public Eye

19 Oct 2025 · 31 min

Haemin Sunim: A Zen Buddhist monk’s guide to healing old wounds and finding inner peace

12 Oct 2025 · 38 min

Parenting Differently: Donna Ashworth on embracing neurodiversity

5 Oct 2025 · 47 min

Elizabeth Day: How struggling to conceive made her reimagine motherhood

28 Sept 2025 · 1h 2m

Geri Horner-Halliwell:  "Motherhood is better than a number one record"

15 Jun 2025 · 37 min

Sarah Hoover: “ I was allergic to being a mother. It was the worst thing that could have happened to me, and I felt monstrous for thinking that way”

8 Jun 2025 · 39 min

Jonathan Haidt: “All of these things are designed to take over your child's life”

1 Jun 2025 · 47 min

Camila Alves McConaughey: “Finding the balance of giving them everything I think they deserve and also what I think I deserve, is a challenge”

24 May 2025 · 44 min

Mishal Husain: “She really liberated me - she said, your life is completely different from mine, you've got to pursue the talents God's given you”

17 May 2025 · 44 min

Alain de Botton: “Children will smell their parents' compromises, neuroses - to force the parent towards maturity"

10 May 2025 · 41 min

Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice: “We'd have to do 10 of these recordings to really get into the many different things she's done for us”

3 May 2025 · 40 min

Giovanna Fletcher: “I don't remember my mum playing with us…you might not be the one chasing kids around, but you are creating their safe spaces”

27 Apr 2025 · 50 min

Dr Shefali: “Allow your child to be who it is they are”

20 Apr 2025 · 47 min

Mary Berry: “ She died at 105, and how lucky was I that she still had her mind?”

12 Apr 2025 · 34 min

Karl Lokko: “I started to understand the mother I had the first time I got arrested”

6 Apr 2025 · 42 min

Clover Stroud: "Motherhood destroys who you are, yet completely makes you"

30 Mar 2025 · 55 min

Trailer: Lessons From Our Mothers

19 Mar 2025 · 2 min

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