Now What Podcast is for women in the middle of it. Not the moment you decide to leave. Not the glow-up on the other side. The messy, disorienting bit in between — where your old life is gone and you have absolutely no idea what comes next. That's the part nobody talks about honestly. That's the part this show exists for. Formerly called Mothering On My Own, the show has evolved to reflect how single motherhood keeps shifting and reshaping over time. Spotify Every season of it asks new questions. Every chapter stretches you in a different direction. The name Now What felt like the most honest way to describe all of it — the decision, the aftermath, the rebuilding, and every unexpected turn that comes after. The conversations on this show are honest, unfiltered, and deliberately unglamorous. We don't do glow-up stories without the before. We don't give advice without acknowledging how hard the thing actually is. We talk to women who are in the thick of separation, women who came out the other side, and experts who work in this space every day — and we ask them to be real, not polished. We cover the full range of what this experience actually looks like — co-parenting, parallel parenting, the decision to leave, kids and divorce, financial recovery, identity and rebuilding, coercive control, emotional abandonment, dating again, sex, the body, healing, and the community stories that remind you someone else has been through it too and come out okay. The messages from listeners are why this keeps going. Women telling us they felt completely alone until they found the show. Women saying someone finally said the thing they'd been thinking but couldn't articulate. Women who forwarded an episode to a friend going through it and said: this is what I've been trying to tell you. That's what this show is for.

Much love, Rach x