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Another Mother

Anna Smith - Six kids, a husband on tour, and learning through getting it wrong

Season 1, Ep. 3

Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. This episode she's chatting to Anna Smith about how she navigated raising six children while her husband, singer-songwriter Martin Smith, was often away on tour. She shares many of the lessons she has learnt along the way, including embracing her children's unique personalities, the joy of having an open home, and creating space for honest feedback from her children about what she might have got wrong.


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  • Introducing Another Mother - Emma Borquaye

    03:35||Season 1, Ep. 0
    Subscribe today. Coming soon - a parenting podcast from My Spring Harvest, with Emma Borquaye. Each episode features a conversation full of practical wisdom to help you on your journey of raising little ones, the way that God intended - with all the joy!
  • 1. Guvna B - TikTok fame, water births, and talking to your kids about grief

    37:25||Season 1, Ep. 1
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith, and first up is her husband Guvna B! They chat all things family life, including the birthing pool experience, navigating their differences, and how to talk to your children about the ones we have loved and lost. Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother.
  • 2. Gabes & Anna Deku - Work, parental leave, and intergenerational living

    44:43||Season 1, Ep. 2
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. This episode she's chatting to Gabes and Anna Deku about the challenges of balancing work and parenthood, and making deliberate choices around intergenerational living to instil family values that are important to them.Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother. 
  • 4. Loretta Andrews - Single parenting and how to raise anti-racist kids

    53:13||Season 1, Ep. 4
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. This episode she's chatting to author, broadcaster and music manager Loretta Andrews. This is a thoughtful and honest conversation as Loretta shares her experience of life as a single parent after her marriage ended shortly after her son was born. Loretta also discusses her journey to becoming a co-author with her long-time friend, Ruth, as they sought to help parents to raise anti-racist children. Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother. 
  • 5. Liturgies For Hope - Prayers for busy parents

    37:58||Season 1, Ep. 5
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. This episode she is talking to Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore, the authors of Liturgies for Hope - a book of prayers for the highs, the lows, and everything in between. Prayer has the capacity to form us in the best way, but so often with big life changes and new routines (or no routines if you have a newborn!) prayer and its impact can quickly be forgotten. In this conversation we delve deeper in to the purpose of prayer and how we might rediscover it as a source of strength in our parenting journeys.Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother.
  • Bonus: Meet Emma's Mum - Navigating Faith As A Young Family

    19:02||Season 1
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. For this bonus episode she is joined by her very own mother, Chris Francis. Together they discuss what it was like for Emma’s Mum and Dad raising their three daughters and what changed in their family when they discovered faith and church. Chris shares some of the prayers she has seen become a reality over the years and suggests some creative ways you might be able to get your ‘quiet time’ in with God, even with toddlers!Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother. 
  • 6. John and Jade Reynolds - A paralysis diagnosis, finding love, and raising a young family

    54:54||Season 1, Ep. 6
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. This episode she is talking to John and Jade Reynolds; they share loads of fun family content on social media to give a glimpse in to their lives as an interabled family. Jade has been a wheelchair user since just before her 13th birthday, so in our conversation I hear a bit more about Jade’s diagnosis and how being told she wouldn’t walk again at such a pivotal time in her life has impacted her, and how this has shaped their family to what it is today!Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother.
  • 7. Nicky and Sila Lee - Your marriage after having kids, date nights, disagreement, and healthy habits

    43:19||Season 1, Ep. 7
    Join Emma Borquaye as she hosts Another Mother, a brand new parenting podcast series by My Spring Harvest. Every other week she’ll be chatting to a different guest to get their honest insights on parenting and faith. This episode she is talking to Nicky and Sila Lee; The founders of The Marriage Course, The Pre-Marriage Course and The Parenting Children Course. They have been married for 46 years and have four children and ten grandchildren. In this conversation Nicky and Sila share some of their own experiences and equip us with practical advice and wisdom, including the tools for a healthy marriage, how becoming parents changes things, what to do if you’re feeling distant from your spouse, and how to navigate disagreement. Sign up to My Spring Harvest for free, and get extra content and resources from Another Mother.