My Mum Left Me at 18 Months to Build Us a Better Life | The Goodmother Series Ep. 12

My Mum Left Me at 18 Months to Build Us a Better Life | The Goodmother Series Ep. 12

What does it cost a mother to leave her children behind so they can have a better life? In this deeply personal episode of The Goodmother Series, Ezinne sits with her mother, Reverend Christiana Asinugo, the woman whose life and name helped shape the heart of this podcast. A Nigerian-born mother, midwife, and ordained minister, Reverend Christiana shares her journey through motherhood in Nigeria, migration to the UK, raising four children across continents, faith, sacrifice, and what it means to carry family, culture, and calling at the same time. This conversation moves through birth, separation, prayer, generational strength, creative freedom, healing, grandmotherhood, and the quiet truth of becoming. It is a story of motherhood lived through the body, through faith, through memory, and through love. Follow Reverend Christiana Asinugo: TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@rev.christiana.as] The Goodmother Series | The Unspoken Truth A modern motherhood podcast documenting how becoming a parent reshapes identity, body, and cultural belonging across the African diaspora. Hosted by Ezinne, this series centres on lived experience over advice. These are intimate, culturally rooted conversations about maternal identity, body transformation, inherited expectations, and the emotional realities of motherhood. If this episode resonated, like, comment, and subscribe to help more women find these stories. Watch on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodmotherSeries?sub_confirmation=1] Follow The Goodmother Series: TikTok [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesTikTok] Instagram [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesIG] Facebook [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesFB] New episodes every Sunday at 6am GMT. Produced by APodcastGeek https://apodcastgeek.com/

She Was Let Go Twice on Maternity Leave ft. Paula Oyinkan | The Goodmother Series Ep. 11

What happens when motherhood, ambition, redundancy, grief and identity all arrive in the same season? In this episode of The Goodmother Series, host Ezinne Asinugo-Onyeka sits with Paula Oyinkan, Nigerian British podcast host, marketing professional, founder of The Paula Oyinkan Show, and founder of McCrory Studios, for a warm and honest conversation about motherhood, identity, confidence, work and becoming. Paula shares what changed after becoming a mother of two, why motherhood made her more ambitious and how being made redundant twice on maternity leave became part of a deeper reckoning with purpose, stability and self-trust. Together, Ezinne and Paula explore the realities many women carry quietly, from the identity shift of motherhood to the pressure to perform strength, the loneliness that can exist even with support and the courage it takes to build something of your own. This conversation is rooted in the unspoken truth of modern motherhood, especially for Black women, African women, Nigerian women and women across the diaspora who are navigating motherhood, marriage, career, confidence, body change, faith, grief and ambition without losing themselves. Guest Links: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/paulaoyinkan/] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@ThePaulaOyinkanShow] The Goodmother Series | The Unspoken Truth A modern motherhood podcast documenting how becoming a parent reshapes identity, body, and cultural belonging across the African diaspora. Hosted by Ezinne, this series centres on lived experience over advice. These are intimate, culturally rooted conversations about maternal identity, body transformation, inherited expectations, and the emotional realities of motherhood. If this episode resonated, like, comment, and subscribe to help more women find these stories. Watch on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodmotherSeries?sub_confirmation=1] Follow The Goodmother Series: TikTok [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesTikTok] Instagram [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesIG] Facebook [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesFB] New episodes every Sunday at 6am GMT. Produced by APodcastGeek https://apodcastgeek.com/

The Honest Cost of Becoming a Mum ft. Kyra Bruce | The Goodmother Series Ep. 10

What does motherhood ask of you when your identity, body, marriage, and sense of self are all changing at once? In this episode of The Goodmother Series, host Ezinne Asinugo-Onyeka sits down with Kyra Bruce, a UK-based content creator and mother, for an honest conversation about young marriage, motherhood, and building a family life in the public eye. Kyra reflects on who she was before becoming a mum, the emotional cost of raising two young children, the realities of intimacy and body change after birth, and what it means to support a partner while still holding on to yourself. This conversation moves through the everyday truths of motherhood, from nursery runs and unfinished laundry to relationship shifts, resentment, self-image, faith, family privacy online, and the small windows where mothers try to feel like themselves again. Guest link: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kyrabrucek/] The Goodmother Series | The Unspoken Truth A modern motherhood podcast documenting how becoming a parent reshapes identity, body, and cultural belonging across the African diaspora. Hosted by Ezinne, this series centres on lived experience over advice. These are intimate, culturally rooted conversations about maternal identity, body transformation, inherited expectations, and the emotional realities of motherhood. If this episode resonated, like, comment, and subscribe to help more women find these stories. Watch on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodmotherSeries?sub_confirmation=1] Follow The Goodmother Series: TikTok [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesTikTok] Instagram [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesIG] Facebook [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesFB] New episodes every Sunday at 6am GMT. Produced by APodcastGeek https://apodcastgeek.com/

Body Confidence, Dance & Single Motherhood ft. Takkies | The Goodmother Series Ep. 9

What happens when motherhood changes your body, your home, your relationships and your sense of self? In this episode of The Goodmother Series, host Ezinne Asinugo-Onyeka sits down with Takkies, South African dance queen, women’s wellness advocate and founder of Rockingnheels, a movement empowering women to reconnect with their bodies through dance. Takkies shares her raw birth stories across South Africa and the UK, the shock and tenderness of body change after birth, moving countries while pregnant, navigating single motherhood, dating again with daughters watching, and raising body confident girls in a world that often teaches women to criticise themselves first. This is a warm, honest and deeply embodied conversation about maternal identity, African motherhood stories, body confidence after motherhood, dance as healing, and the joy of becoming yourself again without needing to return to who you were before. Guest links: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/takkies7/] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@Loveyourbeautifulbody] The Goodmother Series | The Unspoken Truth A modern motherhood podcast documenting how becoming a parent reshapes identity, body, and cultural belonging across the African diaspora. Hosted by Ezinne, this series centres on lived experience over advice. These are intimate, culturally rooted conversations about maternal identity, body transformation, inherited expectations, and the emotional realities of motherhood. If this episode resonated, like, comment, and subscribe to help more women find these stories. Watch on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodmotherSeries?sub_confirmation=1] Follow The Goodmother Series: TikTok [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesTikTok] Instagram [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesIG] Facebook [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesFB] New episodes every Sunday at 6am GMT. Produced by APodcastGeek https://apodcastgeek.com/

The Reality of Motherhood After Divorce ft. Korra Obidi | The Goodmother Series Ep. 8

What happens when motherhood strips away performance and forces a woman to meet herself more truthfully? In this episode of The Goodmother Series, host Ezinne Asinugo-Onyeka sits with Korra Obidi, dancer, performer, creator, and mother, for an intimate conversation about maternal identity, public survival, healing, and what it means to rebuild yourself in full view. This is a culturally rooted motherhood podcast episode about motherhood stories, modern motherhood, single motherhood, and the quiet, difficult work of becoming. Korra opens up about discovering pregnancy while trying to build a life in Los Angeles, the way motherhood sharpened her sense of purpose, and the loneliness of feeling unseen inside marriage. She speaks candidly about divorce, co parenting, online judgment, sensuality, therapy, body confidence, and the discipline it takes to keep showing up for yourself and your children. What emerges is not advice, but testimony, a story about identity, body, and cultural belonging after motherhood shifts everything. This episode will resonate with anyone navigating maternal identity, life after separation, body changes after birth, or the tension between being visible, desired, nurturing, and fully human at once. Guest links Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/korraobidi/] YouTube, SYTYCD audition while pregnant [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSv2x0yRwc] YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMaL7r9YILqfjtR4c4z68fw] Retreat [https://linktr.ee/estarsuniverse?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcAQqQthleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAafxSJyrUXkE-XweWm1okcenmtM7bKaV6sqcrjvxY0dKOceoCcEjd3wizZF4Vg_aem_FotAvvAvIxa9w2RMferDpQ] The Goodmother Series | The Unspoken Truth A modern motherhood podcast documenting how becoming a parent reshapes identity, body, and cultural belonging across the African diaspora. Hosted by Ezinne, this series centres on lived experience over advice. These are intimate, culturally rooted conversations about maternal identity, body transformation, inherited expectations, and the emotional realities of motherhood. If this episode resonated, like, comment, and subscribe to help more women find these stories. Watch on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodmotherSeries?sub_confirmation=1] Follow The Goodmother Series: TikTok [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesTikTok] Instagram [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesIG] Facebook [https://itl.ink/thegoodmotherseriesFB] New episodes every Sunday at 6am GMT. Produced by APodcastGeek https://apodcastgeek.com/