11 episodes

Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!Produced by The Pink ProtestFollow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/
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Bringing Up Us Matilda Sturridge & The Pink Protest

    • Kids & Family
    • 4.1 • 107 Ratings

Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!Produced by The Pink ProtestFollow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/
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    11: Matilda Sturridge (interviewed by Honey Ross)

    11: Matilda Sturridge (interviewed by Honey Ross)

    SEASON FINALE: Join us for a very special episode in which we switch the mics and Matilda is interviewed about her journey into motherhood by writer, producer and podcaster Honey Ross.

    Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.

    Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!

    Produced by The Pink ProtestFollow Honey: https://www.instagram.com/honeykinnyListen to The Body Protest: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-body-protest/id1479688202 
    Follow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/
    Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/

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    • 58 min
    10: Sophie Ellis-Bextor

    10: Sophie Ellis-Bextor

    Join Matilda Sturridge as she talks to singer, songwriter and model Sophie Ellis-Bextor about being the mother of five boys! 

    Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.

    Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!

    Produced by The Pink Protest
    Follow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/
    Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/

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    • 44 min
    9: Konnie Huq

    9: Konnie Huq

    Join Matilda Sturridge as she talks to writer, presenter and LEGEND, Konnie Huq about balancing work and parenthood and her new kids book! Konnie's Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cookie-Most-Annoying-Boy-World/dp/1848128827/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=konnie+huq+book&qid=1571761200&sr=8-1

    Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.

    Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!

    Produced by The Pink Protest
    Follow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/
    Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 34 min
    8: Penny Wincer

    8: Penny Wincer

    Join Matilda Sturridge as she talks to photographer and writer Penny Wincer about parental suicide, raising a child with autism and finding the good bits in every day. This is a truly extraordinary episode.

    Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.

    Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!

    Produced by The Pink Protest
    Follow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/
    Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 1 hr 6 min
    7: Tara Carr

    7: Tara Carr

    Join Matilda Sturridge as she talks to co-founder of School of Comedy, Tara Carr, about her journey with miscarriage, IVF and surrogacy.

    Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.

    Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!

    Produced by The Pink Protest
    Follow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/
    Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 59 min
    6: Natasha Parker

    6: Natasha Parker

    Join Matilda Sturridge as she talks to her best friend, writer, Natasha Parker about the joys, challenges and reality of same-sex parenting. Bringing Up Us is a podcast hosted by Matilda Sturridge. After falling pregnant at 21 and becoming a single mother soon after her son was born, Matilda experienced a non-traditional nosedive into being a parent. This podcast hopes to explore all the bold and beautiful ways that people's journeys evolve as they raise their families. We all know that life is never simple or straight forward so why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect parents? How do you bring up a child when you're still growing up yourself? With a host of incredible guests, Bringing Up Us hopes that by delving into peoples narratives we realise that there is no set path.
    Join us every Wednesday for new episodes featuring intimate interviews with a line up of amazing women including Jessie Cave, Bryony Gordon, Natalie Lee, Emma Freud & many more!Produced by The Pink ProtestFollow Matilda Sturridge: https://www.instagram.com/matildasturridge/Follow The Pink Protest: http://instagram.com/pinkprotest/

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    • 35 min

Customer Reviews

4.1 out of 5
107 Ratings

107 Ratings

mol_a ,

Interesting and fun listen

I find this podcast really lovely to listen to and enjoy hearing about different peoples experiences but I think it’s very important to acknowledge that everybody speaking is coming from an incredibly privileged background, and the experiences discussed might not be 100% relevant to those people with less privileged backgrounds. Appreciate it is difficult to find guests from ‘regular’ backgrounds but I think for example with the most recent episode with Tara Carr discussing paying for IVF and eventual surrogacy in the US- I feel that this will alienate some people as it is simply not an option for most due to the cost. As this podcast is produced by the Pink Protest who are brilliant I am surprised there hasn’t been an effort to make it more accessible but this is perhaps something to consider with future episodes. Even just a comment to acknowledge awareness of the fact when discussing these sorts of ideas would be so helpful I think!!

Bee buzzer ,

Matilda Sturbridge

I listened to this podcast and thought gosh that’s a lot to go through, but then I lost patience. How many people have the money to undertake all of that activity in order to have a baby, very very few, so it’s not really indicative of a struggle. Does greed pay a part in this? I’m not sure. Having had two miscarriages, I could relate in part to some of the things that were said, and I appreciate the cheery optimism of the podcast. Although I am very happy that all of the activity ended in a happy result, this would not happen without immense privilege and that was not acknowledged, so it doesn’t seem real.

able mary ,

Needs more variation

Soooooooooo it’s sooooooooo sooooooooo it’s soooooooooooooooooo soooo amazing

Very middle class .

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