In this episode, Florence shares what it felt like to lose her mom to cancer at seventeen and navigate a father's serious illness as a young girl — and how that early trauma planted the roots of anxiety, people-pleasing, and depression on her young. She opens up about a fast and furious relationship she was in at 21 where she got engaged, pregnant, and what it actually takes to leave a toxic relationship. We go deep into single motherhood during COVID, and the isolation of raising a baby alone. She shares her experience with hyperemesis, what birth taught her about her body for the first time, and how becoming a mother transformed her relationship with herself. Her experience with her kids is honestly healing something in Marnie. In the final stretch, Flo walks us through building One for Blue — her children's clothing brand — from sewing at night after her son went to sleep, and what entrepreneurship as a mom actually looks like. She closes with what it means to finally experience safe love, starting a beautiful modern family, and a life that feels like her own.
This episode is for women of all ages and stages of life. We asked the questions you want to know about mental health, surviving the hardest years motherhood, and how she proves community, movement, and consistency to herself as the key to success!!
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Links:
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Chapters
(00:00) Introduction
(03:04) Meet Florence
(5:17) Childhood & growing up in Victoria
(22:01) Finding Out Her Mom Has Cancer
(31:10) The Feeling of Grief, Depression & How to Cope
(42:56) The Relationship that Changed Everything
(49:02) The Shame Of Manipulation
(56:01) Parenting is Political
(1:11:19) Modern Family Dynamics
(1:20:31) Making Sewing Her Business
(1:30:48) Finding Healthy Love
(1:40:04) Sweet Closing Questions
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