Steven Bartlett’s CEO: How to Navigate Career and Motherhood Without Losing Yourself

What happens when you genuinely love your career and desperately want to be there for your children?

In this week’s Moment, we explore one of the hardest tensions of working motherhood: the feeling that however much support you have, there are some parts of being a mother you simply don’t want to outsource.

After taking on a huge new role with Steven Bartlett while six months pregnant with her third child, Amy Golding shares how motherhood completely changed the way she makes career decisions. Before having children, she thought combining work and family was largely a logistical challenge, something you could solve with enough childcare, money and careful planning. Then she became a mother and realised she'd forgotten something much harder to quantify: love.

We talk about the invisible mental load, wanting to be the primary attachment figure, the complicated emotions that can come with childcare, and why loving your work doesn’t make it any easier to miss the school plays, appointments and everyday moments with your children.

Because perhaps the tension between motherhood and ambition isn't an equation we're supposed to perfectly solve.

💡 In this Moment, you’ll learn:Why working motherhood can feel impossible to get right

How motherhood can change the way you make career decisions

Why childcare doesn't necessarily remove working mum guilt

The emotional side of the mental load we rarely talk about

How to navigate loving your career and wanting to be with your children

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