Ashmita Randhawa is Director of R&D at Sunderland Software City, Visiting Professor at the National Innovation Centre for Data, and Co-Lead at the Hartree Centre.

She has led global teams, holds a PhD, and is deeply passionate about the role of AI and data in shaping what comes next.

She is also a mum to a 7-year-old daughter.

Her mum passed away before she could see her become a mother. That loss is woven through everything - the warmth she brings to every room, the community she builds everywhere she lands, the mother she has chosen to become.

In this episode:→ Building community when your family isn't close — why it requires intentionality→ Raising a daughter across two cultures and making sure she holds both with confidence→ Do-nothing days alongside swimming and dancing - teaching stillness and curiosity in equal measure→ AI, curiosity and how to talk to your children about the world they're actually growing up in→ The legacy of a mother who made everyone feel warm and seen

This one is for the mum building belonging from scratch.

And for anyone who has lost someone and found, quietly, that grief became the thing that grounds them.

Mother's Day just passed. There were flowers. There was cake. And then I went to the gym.

In this episode:

Being celebrated: What it means to receive fully — and why so many mothers rush past it.

This is the life I once dreamed of: Why motherhood is something I never, ever take for granted.

After the cake is eaten: The other part of Mother's Day nobody talks about — pouring into yourself. Deliberately. Unapologetically.

The mum I am becoming: Why the inner work I do on myself is the most important work I do for my children.

For the mother who loves being celebrated — and knows that choosing herself is part of the celebration too.

Work isn't just a paycheck — for mums who care, it's identity, purpose, and proof that they exist beyond their caring role.

Charlie Beswick spent 16 years as a teacher while caring for her son with complex needs. When she had to step back from full-time teaching, she didn't just lose a job — she lost a piece of herself.

In this episode, Charlie opens up about the invisible labour, the false choice society places on mother-carers — be a devoted mum OR have a career — and why that binary is not only wrong, but damaging.

"Give us an inch and we'll give you a mile." — Charlie Beswick

This episode is for the mums doing the invisible work before the working day even begins.

The ones carrying a life of logistics, appointments, and quiet grief behind the scenes. But it's also more than that — it's for anyone who has scrolled past a "typical family" Christmas post and felt the weight of what could have been. You're not alone. And this is exactly the conversation you didn't know you needed to hear.