Matrescence Unfiltered
Rose Soffel and Bianca Bass
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Matrescence Unfiltered is LIVE, a new podcast exploring motherhood, career, identity and ambition. ✨
We made this for the woman who loves her career and may be dreaming of becoming a mum, expecting, or already raising little ones. For the woman who couldn't find content that spoke to both motherhood and ambition at once.
We're Bianca and Rose. A Chief Marketing Officer in her third trimester and a coach, consultant and organisational psychology researcher specialising in matrescence and sustainable high performance.
We've been friends since we were teenagers, the first of the great neurological shifts of a woman's life, as it happens.
Matrescence is the transition into motherhood. It is as neurologically significant as adolescence. And it is almost entirely absent from the professional conversation. That's what this podcast is about.
💡 Motherhood isn't a hindrance to your career, it's a accelerator. Research proves it's a neurological upgrade. 💡
Each episode, we take one thing about motherhood and work that doesn't hold up under scrutiny and break it down properly. Research, lived experience, and honest conversation about what it actually means when your identity is shifting in the middle of everything else.
If this helps even one woman feel a little less conflicted and a little less alone, it will have been worth every second.
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When Nothing Goes to Plan: An Unplanned Caesarean, the Shame Spiral, and Retiring "Natural Birth"
Sensitivity note: this episode discusses birth trauma, emergency caesarean, and the emotional aftermath of a birth that didn't go to plan. If you're currently pregnant or in early postpartum, please…
The Maternity Advisor: A Welcome Step, a Missing Framework, and What Comes After the Hospital Door
Bianca recorded this episode two weeks after giving birth. On the same day, as it happens, that the UK appointed its first ever National Maternity Advisor.It is a meaningful step. Michelle Welsh MP…
The Day Three Drop: The Hormonal Crash No One Prepares You For, Day Seven Reporting Live
This is the episode about what happens when the greatest love of your life arrives in the same 72-hour window as the biggest hormonal crash your body can survive.Day three: she started crying and…
The Career Opportunity (Part 2): Portfolio Careers, Boring Businesses, and Betting on Yourself
Last episode we laid out the career penalty. The stats, the systemic failures, the cost of becoming a mother in a workplace that wasn't built for you. This episode we flip it.What if being pushed out…
The Career Penalty (Part 1): Egg Counts, Bank Accounts, and a System That's Failing You
Bianca spent 15 years engineering her career around the possibility of becoming a mother. Getting to CMO level before she could even think about it. Checking her AMH results. Sitting in an egg…
The Leave Myth: Planning, Surrendering, and What's Actually Coming
You’ve planned everything. The hires, the handover, the keeping-in-touch days. And still, somehow, nothing feels settled.This episode goes inside the pre-leave period - the weeks when you're still…
Building the Village: Loneliness, Cost, and the Patchwork Nobody Prepares You For
Content note: this episode touches on birth anxiety and navigating pregnancy without a close support system nearby.It takes a village to raise a child. Everyone says it. But nobody really tells you…
The Announcement: The Conversation That Changes Everything
Congratulations, you're pregnant! And now you have to tell work.Telling work you're pregnant is one of the most anxiety-filled moments of a woman's career. Not because anything has gone wrong, but…
The Announcement: The Conversation That Changes Everything
Congratulations, you're pregnant! And now you have to tell work.Telling work you're pregnant is one of the most anxiety-filled moments of a woman's career. Not because anything has gone wrong, but…
The First Trimester: Hiding, Exhaustion, and Questioning the "12-Week Rule"
Content note: this episode includes a brief discussion of baby loss and miscarriage.You're pregnant. You know. And for the next twelve weeks, nobody else can.Episode three lives inside the most…
The Plan: Trying, “Failing”, and the Reality of Trimester Zero
Before the positive test. Before the announcement. Before anyone around you knows. There's a chapter of matrescence that almost nobody talks about - and it might be the most isolating one of…
The Upgrade: What Matrescence Is and Why It Matters
Matrescence, the shift into motherhood, is one of the most significant neurological and identity transformations of a woman's adult life. And it is almost entirely absent from the professional…
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Matrescence Unfiltered has published 11 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Business, Careers.
Matrescence Unfiltered is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 41m.
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