10/08/2026
On 8 August 2026, I stepped onto the red dot at TEDxGeorge Women and delivered my talk, “ME TOO.”
And somehow, despite the weeks of terror, overthinking, rewriting, practising, crying, panicking and wondering whether my legs would continue functioning, it went better than I could ever have expected.
“ME TOO” is about the polished version of motherhood we show the world and the much messier truth so many of us hide beneath the surface.
It is about the mothers who look as though they are gliding gracefully across the water while their legs are kicking wildly underneath.
The mothers who are exhausted, overwhelmed, lonely, ashamed or silently wondering why everyone else seems to be coping better than they are.
The truth is, we were never struggling alone.
We were just struggling separately.
I wanted to talk about what happens when one mother finally tells the truth first. When she admits that she is not coping perfectly. That motherhood did not come naturally every second. That she has felt lost, guilty, lonely or completely unlike herself.
Because somewhere, another mother hears her and thinks:
“Me too.”
Those two words can turn shame into connection. Isolation into community. They can remind a mother that she is not broken, failing or alone.
This is why I am so passionate about telling the truth about motherhood. Because mothers deserve to know that the difficult parts do not make them bad mothers.
Standing on that stage, I knew I was not speaking only for myself. I was carrying the stories of mothers around the world who have smiled in public while suffering in silence. Mothers who thought they were the only ones. Mothers who needed someone else to say it first.
It was one of the greatest honours of my life to represent them.
To every mother who has ever looked around and wondered, “Why does everyone else make this look so easy?”
This talk was for you.
You are not the only one.
Me too. ❤️