My Family Strategist

About My Family Strategist

My Family Strategist is an Australian podcast about the decisions of the first five years of parenthood: postpartum, daycare and childcare, returning to work, housing and school fees. Host Christina Spark spent fifteen years in business — Big Four audit at KPMG, then eleven years at Google — before becoming a parent. Parenting content is either medical, or cold finance that ignores how time-poor parents are. This show is the gap: the real numbers behind one family decision at a time. Not perfect parents. Informed ones. myfamilystrategist.com

Publisher

Christina Spark

Category

kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Feb 2026

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

7 of 22 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to tell if your daycare is a good one (17 practical checks)

   Former auditor and mother, [Host Name], shares 17 practical checks to help parents audit their child's daycare effectively.

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   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What your daycare rating can’t tell you

   Host [Host Name] reveals how Australia's daycare rating system overlooks crucial factors like staffing ratios and assessment frequency, guiding parents to look beyond official scores for true quality.

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   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Daycare Audit: 10 Qs Most Parents Never Think to Ask

   Host Sarah Davis interviews herself, revealing ten crucial questions parents should ask to thoroughly audit and choose the best daycare for their child.

Inside a recent episode

How to tell if your daycare is a good one (17 practical checks)

Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But a lot can happen in the 95%. And people behave differently when they think no one is watching. And both things can be true at once. The staff can be warm, know your dog's name, and genuinely adore your child. And there can still be too few of them in the room. When there are too few of them, the downstream issues inevitably follow. Feeding and sleep instructions get missed. Dirty nappies sit unchanged. And burnt-out staff leave. On the floor, a lack of supervision turns into safety incidents that nobody saw happen. Worse yet, a lack of oversight creates blind spots where bad actors can move in and stay under the radar. […]

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