Black Ballad Presents: The Survival Guide – Details, episodes & analysis

In this bonus bite-size edition of The Survival Guide, Chioma Fanawopo, mum, youth worker and wellness practitioner, tells us how we can communicate better with our older children, creating a bond that will last into adulthood.

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Often, mothers are put a pedestal that it is way too easy to fall off. In this bonus episode, bestselling author Naima Coster discusses her book, 'What's Mine and Yours', messy mother characters as well as dealing with grief in her own parenting journey.

Naima's novel, 'What's Mine and Yours', is available now.

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Black Ballad Presents: The Survival Guide is back with a BANG! (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!)

In the first episode of our new season we are talking about sex after motherhood with Black Mums Upfront – a topic that we really don't talk about enough.

How long do you wait before you dive back in? How do you (and your body) change after the trauma of childbirth? And how do you find your orgasm after you've lost it? All important questions answered with trademark frankness by Carina, Endy, Natalie and Nana-Adwoa.

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Black Ballad Presents: The Survival Guide is back for another season, talking about all the things we don't speak about enough.

We have guests including Jamelia, Black Mums Upfront and Laura Henry-Allain MBE (the creator of JoJo & GranGran), and talking about fun topics such as sex after childbirth, when to tell your kids they're black and how to deal with teenagers.

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For our final episode, we have an intimate conversation between Tobi Oredein (co-founder and CEO of Black Ballad) and Jendella Benson (Black Ballad's head of editorial) about working motherhood, women's health, parenting choices and future hopes for their children...

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We've spoken about a lot of hard things during this season of The Survival Guide, but that only makes us appreciate the little joys of motherhood even more.

In this episode, we revisit with previous guests, as they tell us about the little things that bring maximum joy along their parenting journey. Featuring Samantha & Ola (@shadesofblackpodcast), Bolanle Tajudeen (@bolanle_tajudeen), Tobi Asare (@mybumppay), Kelechi Okafor (@kelechnekoff) and Wunmi Etti (@abwunmi_).

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Motherhood is wild. Have we told you that it's wild? Just in case you haven't gathered that from the first nine episodes of this series: MOTHERHOOD IS WILD!!!!!

In the process of caring for your new baby and adjusting to your new normal, it can feel like you've lost yourself in some ways, and it can be quite a process to 'find' yourself again.

Kelechi Okafor (@kelechnekoff) talks frankly with us about healing from trauma, mothering herself, why mums need boundaries and so much more.

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Not only are black children over-represented in the care system, but black boys wait on average over a year longer than white children to get adopted...

These grim figures are encouraging some of us to make the leap into mothering in a different form: through fostering and adoption.

But the road is not easy, and this week Aunika (@AunikaBlake/@recoilyouth) takes through her own journey to becoming a foster carer.

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How do you date when you have children? Practically? Whether you use The Apps or you're a fan of an old-fashioned lingering look across the bar, there are lots of questions that come into play when you decide you're a mum who decides they're ready to date.

We talk with Wunmi (@abwunmi_) about her journey with dating, the conclusions she's come to and where she's at now.

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As well as your usual instalment of The Survival Guide, this week Black Ballad takes over the Vintage Books Podcast!

Join Jendella in conversation with award-winning author Diana Evans (26a, The Wonder, Ordinary People) as they talk about Black British identity and ‘home’, the British literary canon and reflect on the events of the past year and what we can learn.

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Let us know what you think by tagging @blackballaduk and @vintagebooks on Twitter and Instagram, and newsletter subscribers and Black Ballad members should look out for two special giveaways...

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