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Jen Dugard

Jen Dugard

Founder of MumSafe™ and Safe Return to Exercise™, pre & postnatal fitness educator and mentor.

Sep 8, 2026

1:36
a little bit more about yourself, what you do and what inspired you to support mums?
1:42
Yeah, I was listening to the intro and I've actually been doing this for 18 years now.
1:46
My son turned 18 on Friday.
1:49
Gosh.
1:50
And I launched my business.
1:52
I feel like a lot of mums will relate to this.
1:53
I launched my fitness business for mums when he was three months old.

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18:24
What would be your message to her?
8:10
It's building trust instead of focusing on numbers.
8:17
Yeah.
8:17
And when you were talking, Crystal, I was thinking, you know, it's not only the mums, like the space I work in now is educating exercise professionals and helping them to even understand that they need more education than their initial personal training or yoga or Pilates certifications and then on a bigger scale than that we spend a lot of time or I've done a lot of conferences speaking at conferences and we've got the big box gyms and fitness facilities who still don't understand why this is so important and we've even got some big you know women's gyms in Australia who are pushing back on you know the the need for education and still saying you know we want to invest in other things rather than the education for the women that are walking through the doors.
9:02
And in Australia, at least, 70% or 77% of women over the age of 15 will become a mother.
9:11
And there was some more statistics to tell us how many women are walking into our gyms and fitness facilities.
9:17
And it's about around 3.2 million women are using our gyms and fitness facilities all the time.
9:24
And of that, 3.2 million, 77% of them are not only women, but they're mothers.
14:09
And then I also picked up When you were talking about some of the bigger gyms and sort of being resistant to this idea of education, how do you still stay inspired and keep moving when you see that resistance still happening?

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