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09/09/2026

🏖️ Our final summer rerun ☀️

While and I are taking an Equal-ish break to plan for year 2, we're replaying some of your favourite episodes. This week we're revisiting our conversation with Alex Trippier and his journey from unawareness to conscious relearning of becoming an equal-ish partner.

Men are often praised for being “hands-on dads”. Women are often drowning under responsibility they can’t quite name.

In this Equal-ish conversation, Alex Trippier names the quiet gap between those two experiences and what it takes to close it.

We talk about:
– Why care work feels invisible
– How cultural stories about fathers still shape
behaviour today
– And what real partnership actually asks of both
people

🎧 Listen now to episode 55 and our final summer rerun! Which one did you enjoy the most?

02/09/2026

🏖️ Summer rerun no.4 ☀️

While and I are taking an Equal-ish break to plan for year 2, we're replaying some of your favourite episodes. This week we're launching our first ever interview with

Fathers aren't “helpers” or "babysitters”. They help build resilience, social skills, emotional
regulation, and mental health.

Fathers are a key parent, not as a breadwinner, but through building strong secure attachments, play, challenge, and presence.

We were thrilled to be joined by renowned evolutionary anthropologist Anna Machin, an expert in fatherhood, AND love.

We unpick what really is the role of dad - are they supposed to be hunter gatherers or caregivers? This is an episode you need to listen to. It will change how you see fatherhood and what children really need from dads.

🎙️ Listen now to our interview with Dr Anna Machin.

26/08/2026

🏖️ Summer rerun no.3 ☀️

While and I are taking an Equal-ish break to plan for year 2, we're replaying some of your favourite episodes. This week we're launching our interview with Dr

We're still firmly held within a belief system that sustains “traditional” family roles. Maybe
with a sense of nostalgia, definitely because it's easier if one person stays home. But are we romanticising the past?

In episode 24 of Equal-ish, we spoke to economist Dr. Corinne Low who helps explain that the 1950s household model was economically efficient
on paper — but deeply insecure in reality. Women were effectively investing in their partner’s earning power, while giving up their own. That investment only paid off if nothing went wrong.

What’s striking is how often today’s conversations about fairness, flexibility and choice are still anchored to that outdated reference point. We compare ourselves to our parents or grandparents, rather than asking whether the model itself ever truly worked, or asking the question - what do WE want?

And the risk hasn’t disappeared. Divorce, redundancy, illness, burnout, these are not edge cases. They’re structural realities of modern life. When households rely on one income, or one person holding the domestic system together, the fragility is built in.

There isn't one right way to set up your family structure, the key is flexibility and honesty about what is needed now.

If we’re designing family life for today’s world with two careers, longer working lives, and far less certainty, then we need to stop measuring “fairness” against a past that was never as safe as we remember.

🎧 Listen to episode 53 out now! Who do you want to hear next?

🏖️ Summer rerun no.2 ☀️While and I are taking an Equal-ish break to plan for year 2, we're replaying some of your favou...
19/08/2026

🏖️ Summer rerun no.2 ☀️

While and I are taking an Equal-ish break to plan for year 2, we're replaying some of your favourite episodes. This week we're launching our first ever interview with Zach Watson.

Are men choosing to ignore the mental load because they subconsciously still believe it is women’s work? Early in our Equal-ish journey we tackled this question with mental load coach, and NYT author .

Zach’s marriage nearly ended in 2018 because he was in default mode and letting his wife do it all. Sound familiar?

Well now, Zach talks very openly about how that happened, what he is doing to make changes, and why other men might be motivated to take household equality seriously.

🎧 Listen to episode 52 out how. Who do you want to hear from next?

12/08/2026

🏖️ Summer rerun no.1 ☀️

While and I are taking an Equal-ish break to plan for year 2, we're replaying some of your favourite episodes. This week we're launching our first ever interview with Molly Millwood.

Talking with .millwood.phd was an absolute delight. I read her book To Have and To Hold
a couple of years ago and have never had to try and capture so many notes in audible! Her research about the differences between men and women's experience of parenthood felt like she was talking directly to me and a cloud was lifting.

If you haven't read it - you need to. Or, just start by listening to our first interview on Equal-ish which is out now!

With Molly we unpack the subtle ways women are socialised to give away power, why women’s “free time” so often includes caregiving, and how unequal dynamics negatively impact both mothers and fathers.

Together we reflect on the evolving language of gender equality, the hidden costs for men who disconnect from early fatherhood, and the damage relationships can suffer if these imbalances go unaddressed.

🎧 Listen to episode 51 of Equal-ish out now!

Who do you want to hear from next?

07/08/2026

🏅We've hit one year of Equal-ish and we are so grateful ❤

This episode is really a thank you.
🥰 To every guest who generously shared their expertise.
🥰 To everyone who's listened during the school run, commute or dog walk.
🥰 To everyone who's sent us a message saying: "That conversation made us talk."

Because that's exactly why Equal-ish exists.

Change doesn't happen because of podcasts! It happens because people take those conversations into their homes, workplaces and communities.

We are so immensly grateful to have this space to comfortably open uncomfortable conversations and keep exploring what Equal-ish really means.

Here's to Year Two. ❤️

What would you like to hear more of next year?





06/08/2026

One of the best things about hosting Equal-ish?

✅ Being allowed to say: "I hadn't thought about it like that before."
✅ Inviting guests to help us unpack the topics we're still finding hard
✅ Getting curious on topics we haven't really thought about before
✅ Asking the questions that we aren't hearing the answers to
✅ Speaking to inspiring thought leaders, every week!

Every guest has changed our thinking in some way.

From rethinking the mental load...
To understanding power dynamics...
To seeing parenting as building relationships rather than shaping children...

These conversations haven't just made us better in how we do our work, they've changed us as people.

This is our first anniversary of the Equal-ish podcast. We have loved this first year and cannot wait to see where next year goes.

🎧 In this week's special anniversary episode, we're sharing the ideas we still think about almost every day.

We're also inviting you to tell us who would you love to hear from again, or who haven't we spoken to yet?!





05/08/2026

🎉 This is a big week for us. We're celebrating a year of Equal-ish 🥳

50 episodes. 27 expert guests. Hundreds of hours of conversation.

When mangino and I started the podcast, we thought we were creating a space for conversations about equal parenting.

A year later, we've realised we're really exploring something much bigger.

Relationships.
Care.
Power.
Community.
Careers.
Society.
What it means to really build a life together.

This episode is a celebration of everything we've learned and all the questions we're still trying to answer.

We're also celebrating two strangers who clicked and took a punt on one another. Kate didn't know me when I knocked on her door with a mad idea, but what we've built over this last 18 months will always mean more to the two of us than anyone could ever imagine. The hours of conversation, laughter, consideration and tears have been utterly joyous.

So this week we're marking one year of Equal-ish. We're taking a break over the summer and will be replaying some of our favourite episodes. Which one would you love to hear again?!

If you've listened, shared an episode, sent us a message, supported our crowdfunder, or recommended Equal-ish to a friend... thank you, I can't tell you how much it means to the both of us ❤

We're only just getting started.

🎧 Episode 50: our one year reflections is out today





01/08/2026

"Don't solve it. Sit beside it."

That single sentence from has stuck with us all week.

Our natural instinct is to fix. Whether its
💡Our partner's stress.
💡Our children's problems.
💡Our friends' struggles.
💡Our team's mistakes.

The most loving thing we can do isn't remove the discomfort or to find the solution, but to stay with someone while they move through it.

The first belief I learned during coaching is that everyone is creative, resourceful, and whole. We all have the answers within us, but most of the time we're not given the space to find it for ourselves. Yet that's the truest place where growth happens.

This episode explores why sitting beside someone can be far harder, and far more powerful than rescuing them.

What's the impact for you from someone sitting beside your problem instead of trying to fix it?

31/07/2026

Equal-ish has never been about changing your partner. It's about understanding yourself first.

Over the past year and I have interviewed experts in psychology, parenting, relationships and behaviour change.

One message keeps returning:

📌The hardest work isn't fixing our partner. It's questioning our own assumptions, noticing our own patterns, and being willing to change ourselves.

If you've ever found yourself thinking:

"If only they would..." We're here for you.

🎧 Listen to episode 49 now.

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