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28th Jul 2025

10 - It’s Not the Glass Ceiling Holding Mothers Back with Tamsin Broster.

In this episode, I’m joined by Tamsin Broster, feminist visibility and confidence coach, former Ministry of Defence leader, mother of two and all-round powerhouse. 

Tamsin shares her deeply personal story of stepping away from a 20-year civil service career to reclaim her identity, rebuild her confidence and rewrite what success means not just as a mother, but as a woman navigating loss, IVF, leadership, and the complexity of modern motherhood.

This is a raw, rich, and honest conversation about what it means to live through matrescence in its fullest expression. From navigating IVF treatments, perimenopause and sandwich caregiving, to ultimately choosing joy and visibility on her own terms.


Listen as we we talk about:

  • The hidden toll of IVF while holding a senior role
  • What happens when the "maternal wall" collides with career ambition
  • Resentment, rage, and reckoning with identity after her second child
  • The legacy she’s intentionally rewriting for her children


TAMSIN BROSTER

Tamsin is a feminist visibility and confidence coach who helps women
stop shrinking and become the face of their business. She works with
entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders navigating body image issues,
impostor syndrome, and the pressure to look or act a certain way.

With a background in MoD Logistics and Commercial support, she
understands the leadership challenges women face and the work
required to shift identity from a long term career into entrepreneurship.

Her work is rooted in the belief that the world changes when women stop
waiting to feel ready and start taking up space exactly as they are.
Known for her warmth, humour, and straight-talking style, Tamsin brings
a powerful blend of compassion and challenge to every stage.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsin-broster-1a66a8210/
https://www.instagram.com/tamsin_broster


MOTHERS’ HOOD

Work with me www.mothershood.co.uk


Come and find me here:

Instagram: @mothers.hood
Facebook: @mothershoodtribe

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-murrell-03966132/

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About the Podcast

Mothers' Hood

We should be mothering amongst the stories of motherhood - its complexities, joys and challenges - and we should have been supported and mentored through it, with the knowledge being passed down from generation to generation.


But today we mother largely in isolation, away from our families, friends and communities; it was never meant to be this way. 


Without all of this we lack the reference to make sense of our own experiences and the language to express how we are feeling. It leaves mothers feeling disconnected, lost and believing there is something wrong with them. 


The Mothers’ Hood Podcast lifts the lid and tells the real, raw and honest stories of motherhood. It celebrates mothers thriving in motherhood and challenges the damaging modern narrative of the perfect mother and intensive mothering.