Chatting the Real, Raw and Unspoken essence of Motherhood with bite-size educational pieces. Join the Movement. A podcast by @bubbacloud with host Kath Hansen
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Chatting the Real, Raw and Unspoken essence of Motherhood with bite-size educational pieces. Join the Movement. A podcast by @bubbacloud with host Kath Hansen
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June 5, 2026
The System Was Never Built for Mothers: Lauren Perrett, BubbaDesk Founder on What Needs to Change (Part 1)
<p><strong>What happens when a mother decides the system is not coming to save her, and builds the thing herself?</strong> In this episode of The Modern Mother Podcast, Kath Hansen sits down with Lauren Perrett, founder of BubbaDesk and Wombee, to have one of the most honest conversations about childcare in Australia that you will hear this year.</p><p>BubbaDesk is a coworking space with onsite childcare where parents can work while their children are cared for in the next room. Not across the city. Next door. Lauren Perrett built it after her own experience of postnatal anxiety and the impossible choice between career and presence. It is now one of the largest coworking-with-childcare providers globally.</p><p>This is a conversation Kath Hansen has been wanting to have for a long time, and it came together through the Bubba Cloud community, where the gap between what Australian mothers actually need and what the system provides is felt every day.</p><p>In Part One of this conversation, Kath Hansen and Lauren Perrett go deep on:</p><p>The structural failure of Australia's childcare system and why it was never designed around what mothers actually need.</p><p>Finance Minister Katy Gallagher's comments that the sooner you get a child into early education or care the better prepared they are for school, and what BubbaDesk represents as a direct alternative to that framing.</p><p>The for-profit childcare model and what Kath Hansen witnessed firsthand working in childcare centres over a decade ago, including what she saw children being fed and where costs were being cut.</p><p>🎙️Why the postpartum period is still so heavily dismissed in Australia, even as mothers are expected to return to work.</p><p>🎙️The breastfeeding conversation nobody is having in the context of working mothers and structural workplace support.</p><p>🎙️The real cost of losing your financial footing as a mother and why being told to just embrace this season is not a strategy.</p><p>🎙️What Lauren Perrett is doing to expand BubbaDesk into new Australian cities, including Brisbane, and the government restrictions she is working through to get there.</p><p>This is not a tips episode. It is a systems conversation.</p><p>👩 Kath Hansen is the host of The Modern Mother Podcast and founder of Bubba Cloud, The Original Linen Baby Lounger brand based in Brisbane, Queensland. A mother of four, Kath Hansen has spent thirteen years navigating Australian motherhood across every stage simultaneously and brings that lived experience to every conversation on this show.</p><p>👩 Lauren Perrett is the founder of BubbaDesk and Wombee, based in Sydney. BubbaDesk coworking locations are currently operating across multiple Australian cities with more openings planned.</p><p>📍Find Lauren Perrett:<br>BubbaDesk https://www.instagram.com/bubbadesk/<br>Wombee https://www.instagram.com/wombee.app/</p><p>Subscribe to The Modern Mother Podcast with Kath Hansen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. </p><p>📍Join the conversation here:</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/themodernmother.pod/</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/bubbacloud/</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/_kathhansen/</p>
March 20, 2026
Stop Telling Mothers to Put Their Oxygen Mask On
<p>I recorded this one in the car. No microphone. Mum bun. Skin still recovering from five weeks of being sick. Completely unhinged setup and I do not care.</p><p>Because I had things to say and I wasn't going to wait until I was sitting at a desk looking like a proper podcaster.</p><p>We keep having half a conversation about nervous system regulation in motherhood. Someone posts about how being present with your children is the greatest gift. And yeah, I agree. But then nobody finishes saying how we're supposed to get there when the village isn't here, the cost of living isn't going down, and the systems built for families were not actually built for mothers.</p><p>And then there's the oxygen mask quote. God. We need to talk about that one.</p><p>This episode is me unpacking the gap between what we're told and what's actually available to us. The guilt of creative ambition sitting next to maternal presence. Why tools aren't the same as infrastructure. And what has genuinely, life-changingly helped me close the tabs in my brain so I can actually sit with my kids and be there.</p><p>There's also a personal note from me about something I built that I think is going to help you too. You'll know the moment when you get to it.</p><p><strong>Links:</strong><a href="https://stan.store/themodernmothervilliage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Modern Mother Village OS</a>Find me on Instagram → @themodernmother.pod / @_kathhansen</p>
March 20, 2026
When Survival Mode Becomes Your Baseline (And What I Made In The Mess)
<p>This one is a solo. No guest, no framework, no tidy resolution. Just Kath, talking honestly about the five weeks that got away from her, a house move, a stint in hospital with her youngest Odin, ADHD medication changes that stripped away the adrenaline she'd been unknowingly running on, and the pattern underneath all of it: that survival mode had quietly become her baseline.</p><p>In this episode</p><p>What happens when ADHD medication lowers your adrenaline and exposes that you had no real baseline. The grief of having to admit you need to stop. Moving houses (her 27th move in 13 years). Odin's hospital admission and navigating the medical system as a mother of a complex-needs child. Letting go of things you can't control. The shame spiral of "you're going to fail because you took a break." </p><p>And then: something genuinely exciting that Kath has built for mothers.</p><p><strong>Mentioned</strong></p><p>The Modern Mother Village OS Kath's course to help mothers reduce their mental load using AI. </p><p><a href="https://stan.store/themodernmothervilliage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Right here!</a></p><p>Connect</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/themodernmother.pod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@themodernmother.pod</a> on Instagram. </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/_kathhansen/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@_kathhansen</a> for the unfiltered version. </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bubbacloud/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@bubbacloud </a>for the new Mamma</p>
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