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Mel Johnson

Founder of The Stork & I and the UK's first Solo Parenthood Coach, supporting single women on solo motherhood by choice.

May 1, 2026

25:06
so you still, you got maternity leave?
25:07
Yeah, so I was coming back anyway.
25:09
Like, I was at, uh, doing a na- a job that was sort of coming to an end, and I was coming back.
25:13
And, um, so yeah, I got maternity leave and went back to the same company afterwards.
25:18
But it was just that I didn't have a support network in the area I went to.
25:23
Because I've lived abroad, um, it's like three different countries, I'm sort of quite used to making friends and making a friendship group, and so that's, uh, what I did.
25:32
I just sort of was like, I treated it like a job.

10 MINS LATER

35:18
Yeah
1:47
Just like Zoe obviously gave a little intro there, but just for those who don't know you, do you want to just give us a little bit of background on how you came to set up The Stalker Night and a bit about your story?
1:58
Yeah.
1:59
So if I start with, I always thought I was going to follow the traditional path.
2:03
So I thought I'd meet somebody, get married and have children together.
2:07
To be honest, I didn't really think much about it.
2:09
I just assumed that's what happened because that seems to be what happens for everybody.
2:14
Yeah.

29 MINS LATER

31:07
Are people trying to find a bond with you when they're saying stuff like that, do you think?

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