Matrescence Unfiltered

By Rose Soffel and Bianca Bass

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Episodes: 18

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Matrescence Unfiltered is LIVE, a new podcast exploring motherhood, career, identity and ambition. ✨

We made this for the woman who loves her career and may be dreaming of becoming a mum, expecting, or already raising little ones. For the woman who couldn't find content that spoke to both motherhood and ambition at once.

We're Bianca and Rose. A Chief Marketing Officer in her third trimester and a coach, consultant and organisational psychology researcher specialising in matrescence and sustainable high performance.

We've been friends since we were teenagers, the first of the great neurological shifts of a woman's life, as it happens.

Matrescence is the transition into motherhood. It is as neurologically significant as adolescence. And it is almost entirely absent from the professional conversation. That's what this podcast is about.

💡 Motherhood isn't a hindrance to your career, it's a accelerator. Research proves it's a neurological upgrade. 💡

Each episode, we take one thing about motherhood and work that doesn't hold up under scrutiny and break it down properly. Research, lived experience, and honest conversation about what it actually means when your identity is shifting in the middle of everything else.

If this helps even one woman feel a little less conflicted and a little less alone, it will have been worth every second.


Episode Date
Your Job Was Designed Around a Man's Hormone Cycle: Sophie Cliff on Ambition and Shedding the Should
Jul 29, 2026
Pensions Are Sexy: Taking Your Money Back in a Rich Man's World (Part Two)
Jul 22, 2026
£65,000 Poorer: The Real Price of Becoming a Mother (Part One)
Jul 15, 2026
The Fourth Trimester: Neuroscience Every New Mum Needs to Know
Jul 08, 2026
Closing the AI Gap: Lauren Ingram on Why Women Can't Afford to Sit This One Out
Jul 01, 2026
Your Calm Goes First: Dr Rosanna M on threat, drive and the soothe system motherhood forgets
Jun 24, 2026
Soft Is Not Weak:Gemma Folkard on The Postpartum Body, Redefining Ambition, and the Bounce-Back Myth
Jun 17, 2026
When Nothing Goes to Plan: An Unplanned Caesarean, the Shame Spiral, and Retiring "Natural Birth"
Jun 10, 2026
The Maternity Advisor: A Welcome Step, a Missing Framework, and What Comes After the Hospital Door
Jun 03, 2026
The Day Three Drop: The Hormonal Crash No One Prepares You For, Day Seven Reporting Live
May 27, 2026
The Career Opportunity (Part 2): Portfolio Careers, Boring Businesses, and Betting on Yourself
May 20, 2026
The Career Penalty (Part 1): Egg Counts, Bank Accounts, and a System That's Failing You
May 13, 2026
The Leave Myth: Planning, Surrendering, and What's Actually Coming
May 06, 2026
Building the Village: Loneliness, Cost, and the Patchwork Nobody Prepares You For
Apr 28, 2026
The Announcement: The Conversation That Changes Everything
Apr 22, 2026
The First Trimester: Hiding, Exhaustion, and Questioning the "12-Week Rule"
Apr 14, 2026
The Plan: Trying, “Failing”, and the Reality of Trimester Zero
Apr 09, 2026
The Upgrade: What Matrescence Is and Why It Matters
Apr 02, 2026