This is the episode I almost didn't record.

Because life has been full lately. Really full. And sometimes showing up feels like one thing too many.

But that's exactly why I did.

Because Mambition isn't something I do when I have capacity. It's something that gives me capacity. And there's a difference.

In this episode I talk honestly about the never ending juggle — and what actually makes it possible to keep showing up even when everything is stretched.

For the mother who is wondering how anyone finds the capacity for anything beyond survival right now.

You don't need more time. You need to know what fills you.

And then protect it fiercely. 💛

She was the only girl on her rugby team.

And twenty five years on a pitch became one of the most important foundations of her life.

Not because of the sport itself. But because of what it built. The ability to receive feedback pragmatically. Without making it personal. To extract what's useful and leave the rest. To show up regardless.

Laura Jenkins is a commercial litigation partner at Stewarts. Two children. Full time.

What does it actually takes to stay at the top when the world quietly expects you to step back?

In this episode:→ How rugby built her foundation for receiving feedback — pragmatically, without making it personal→ What it took to stay at partner level after having children — and the reframe that made it possible→ The culture shift that happens when senior people are visibly human — why normalising life outside work benefits everyone→ Why motherhood made her a sharper lawyer and a more open minded human

It's a story about the foundations that don't show up on a CV — and carry you further than anything that does.

I did these things before I had children. At the time I had no idea how much they would matter.

The solo trips. The career risks. The financial discipline. The comfort I built with my own company. None of it felt like preparation. It just felt like living.

But on the other side of becoming a mother — I understand something I couldn't have understood then. Everything I built before my children arrived became the foundation I didn't know I was laying.

In this episode:→ Solo travel — on going your own way before you know where you're going→ Career risks — why making my career fluid early means motherhood never had to box me in→ Financial discipline — the habits I built in my 20s that serve me even more now→ Learning to enjoy my own company — and why that changes everything as a mother→ Investing in myself — because there is a version of me outside of motherhood that is equally worthy of the journey

For the mother who is glad she lived fully before she had children — and is living fully because of it.