Speaker 1: Right across Melbourne. This is Nomber one hundred. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Welcome you Friday, everybody. You're on the air with Jason
Speaker 1: Lauren Clint here as well and a very cool and
Speaker 1: I would say special event happening this weekend that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are going to relate to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when I heard about this, I thought we
Speaker 2: must talk about it on the radio.
Speaker 1: I'd like to.
Speaker 2: Introduce you to our next guest, Phoebe Simmons, who is
Speaker 2: a friend of mine.
Speaker 3: Good morning, good Morning team.
Speaker 2: Now Phoebe. If you haven't heard of this name, Phoebe
Speaker 2: started this incredible baby stalk or I'm not a mum,
Speaker 2: but I know all about it because all my girlfriends
Speaker 2: go there and I've got friends with babies from the memo,
Speaker 2: which is like the coolest baby shop going around. And
Speaker 2: they're huge, right, They're like superstars.
Speaker 3: No, well we're not as huge as I think people think.
Speaker 3: We're started in Melbourne just by myself and my business
Speaker 3: partner Kate Casey. We have three stores in Melbourne and
Speaker 3: one in Sydney. But what we're really good at is
Speaker 3: creating a community and understanding that parents deserve better and
Speaker 3: they deserve more than just a great retail experience. They
Speaker 3: deserve community and connection. They deserve to be feel to
Speaker 3: be heard, supported and understand. So it's not just what
Speaker 3: you're selling exactly right, it's anybody can do that. But
Speaker 3: we really understand as mums how important it is to
Speaker 3: feel really connected to a sense of motherhood. And when
Speaker 3: we heard about this amazing organization mum Work, which was
Speaker 3: started in Melbourne about eighteen months ago, we knew we
Speaker 3: had to get involved and support them.
Speaker 2: Right, So you've partnered with the mum Work which is
Speaker 2: happening in Melbourne tomorrow. Now tell us all about it,
Speaker 2: because I think it's a pretty incredible community of mums.
Speaker 3: It absolutely is. So it was started by an incredible
Speaker 3: woman called Kim Kay in Melbourne where she herself had
Speaker 3: a personal experience where she was feeling quite isolated and
Speaker 3: alone in early motherhood.
Speaker 2: And you're a mum, you would get that.
Speaker 3: I totally get it. It's really really relevant and it
Speaker 3: resonates with so many of it so that your identity
Speaker 3: changes after having a kid, and if you are if
Speaker 3: you're one of the only ones of your friends who
Speaker 3: have kids, or you know, there's lots of different change
Speaker 3: and you might not have all of your friends having
Speaker 3: kids at the same time. And there's also a lot
Speaker 3: of change in community resources around and not as much
Speaker 3: support for mums as they should be, and so that
Speaker 3: has to So Kim realized that that's where it has
Speaker 3: to start with us. And she just put a call
Speaker 3: out on Facebook and said, does anyone want to come
Speaker 3: for a walk with me in our local community this week?
Speaker 3: And all of these mums turned up. Oh, and then
Speaker 3: she said, okay, well, let's do this every week because
Speaker 3: consistency is so important.
Speaker 1: Get in the other house.
Speaker 3: Exactly right.
Speaker 2: Women give up their careers, they go for working in
Speaker 2: busy offices where you're surrounded by five people, one person,
Speaker 2: hundreds of being at home with the baby.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a conversation with another adult.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: I think we forget that.
Speaker 4: We do so from your experience and from hearing from
Speaker 4: other mothers. When you feel lonely or isolated, do you
Speaker 4: tend to retreat more? Is that something that happens?
Speaker 3: It can? It can? And because you don't know who
Speaker 3: to talk to, you don't know who really understands how
Speaker 3: you're thinking. And there are so many great resources out
Speaker 3: there that we encourage everyone in our community to access.
Speaker 3: But one simple way that we think is a really
Speaker 3: great antidote is connection. And this is where walking, moving
Speaker 3: your body, finding your people at the same stage as
Speaker 3: in life as you can really make a big difference.
Speaker 3: We think it's essential postpartum care.
Speaker 1: Well, isn't it funny? It's sort of like, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to, you know, talk down the services
Speaker 1: that are provided, but there are there are all these
Speaker 1: services that can help your life. And sometimes it's the
Speaker 1: simplicity I've got for a walk, going for a walk
Speaker 1: with someone who is going through the exact same thing
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 3: That's right. And so this happens every week now. So
Speaker 3: Kim started this and then quite quickly she was able
Speaker 3: to move to the sixty two walks happening around Australia,
Speaker 3: just in all towns around Australia every week. And so
Speaker 3: if you wanted to be a local leader, I just
Speaker 3: say where I live in my suburb and there wasn't
Speaker 3: a walk happening, then I would nominate myself to be
Speaker 3: a leader. And so it's very grassroots, it's very mum
Speaker 3: mum dreamer.
Speaker 2: Which is so nice because sometimes when it does feel
Speaker 2: like a big thing, it can also be overwhelming.
Speaker 3: That's right exactly. And so yeah, Kim really runs this
Speaker 3: movement and her goal and our goal is to make
Speaker 3: it as big as possible. And so when we partnered
Speaker 3: with her at the end of last year, we thought,
Speaker 3: we have to do this big walk.
Speaker 1: And that's what tomorrow is all about.
Speaker 3: It is it is so we're wanting to stand for
Speaker 3: other mums and let them know that they're not alone.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if you saw that just coming together
Speaker 4: of women with babies coming towards you, totally, the cacophony
Speaker 4: of voices and chatting.
Speaker 1: It's just it's quite powerful, that first one that'll actually
Speaker 1: start on time and run to plant.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, but also we want everyone to come. We don't
Speaker 3: just want Mark, We want dads, we want grandparents, we
Speaker 3: want friends, you know, like lost so many of your
Speaker 3: friends have said, you know, to let them know that
Speaker 3: you understand what they're going through too, And it's going
Speaker 3: to be really special.
Speaker 2: Where absolutely, where is this big Mum Walk opening.
Speaker 3: It starts a Treasury Gardens and it's just a thirty
Speaker 3: minute gentle stroll.
Speaker 2: Because that's the other thing we're not doing, like a
Speaker 2: half marathon.
Speaker 3: Resolutely not absolutely not. We're here for connection not six
Speaker 3: six exactly nine am.
Speaker 1: Treasury Gardens in East Melbourne is where it starts. It's
Speaker 1: seeing no mum walks alone community walk in Melbourne. This
Speaker 1: is a great event. I'm right behind this. I love this,
Speaker 1: so thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks kudos to you Phoebe because you are a mum
Speaker 2: of two, You're a busy working mummy's built a business
Speaker 2: and you're also out there supporting other mums who need
Speaker 2: it the most. So well done.
Speaker 3: Thank you. This is actually what we care about. This
Speaker 3: means so much more to us than yeah, just selling stuff.
Speaker 3: It's about changing society and letting mums know that they're
Speaker 3: head And.
Speaker 1: It's funny, you know. We'll get a lot of events
Speaker 1: and a lot of these sort of stuffs pitched at
Speaker 1: us for the show, and it's funny. When this one
Speaker 1: came up the meeting, it was just we all said yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just like we related to it so much.
Speaker 1: I think could be a lot of people listening right
Speaker 1: now that would be in that situation.
Speaker 2: We might talk to some mums after this as well
Speaker 2: and see how mums out there are feeling, because it
Speaker 2: can be pretty full on pretty isolating. When you realize
Speaker 2: you're not the only one feeling that, that's when you
Speaker 2: get the connection right.
Speaker 1: Thirteen twenty four ten is our number if you want
Speaker 1: to get involved, and.
Speaker 2: You can jump on the memo dot com dot a
Speaker 2: you for more information on the mum Walk tomorrow. I
Speaker 2: love the takeover of mums in Melbourne's gonna beautiful Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Morning for it too, Thanks for coming, Thank.
Speaker 4: You, Jason Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good following
Speaker 2: Them on the socials.