LIFI25: Can mums have it all?
17 Oct 2025
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Tickets£10.00
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VenueCourtyard
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Running time90 mins
We’re told women can have it all, but who’s keeping score?
Managing careers, childcare, personal identity, and a hefty mental load, modern motherhood is a highpressure juggling act. Our panel will explore what is attainable for mums versus what is expected when faced with images of perfection – from lunching ladies and gym bunnies to ‘mumfluencers’ and those who apparently do it all.
Prepare to hear honest opinions and brutal truths as our guests share their good, bad, and ugly experiences of mothering, traversing expectations, judgement, guilt, recognition, support networks, and the mental upshot of being a modern mum – to families of all shapes and sizes.
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Who's who?
Myleene Klass MBE
Host
Joeli Brearley MBE
Speaker
Dr Andrea O’Reilly
Speaker
Claire Warren
Speaker
BIOGRAPHIES
Myleene Klass MBE is a celebrated broadcaster, classically trained musician, performer, bestselling author, and entrepreneur. She has hosted global TV and radio shows, topped classical charts, and undertaken major brand collaborations. A dedicated charity ambassador, Myleene was awarded a 2025 MBE for her advocacy on women’s health and miscarriage awareness.
Joeli Brearley MBE is a prominent activist, podcaster, author, public speaker, and
founder of charity Pregnant Then Screwed. She has helped change laws on flexible
working, tribunal time limits, redundancy protections, and swayed national childcare
funding. Joeli has repeatedly been named as one of the most influential women in
Britain.
Dr Andrea O’Reilly is internationally recognised as the founder of Motherhood Studies. She is full professor at York University’s School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, a prolific award-winning editor and writer covering varied motherhood topics with thirty plus books published.
Claire Warren, better known as @mykindamum, is a mum-of-two video and content creator whose mission is to reduce the frustration and loneliness of motherhood. Her honest, relatable, and humorous parenting posts have earned her nearly half a million followers on Instagram and over 3m likes on TikTok.