The Full Stop is a podcast & community for childless people and people who care for them.

Welcome to the Full Stop

This is the home of the monthly Full Stop Pod, a conversational podcast for everyone. Listen to our guests who share their stories. You can find the Full Stop podcast on your favourite podcast listening app or tune in on this website.

Our inclusive, online Full Stop Community is exclusively for childless people with behind-the-scenes access to the podcast, space to celebrate wins and grieve, and friendship with people who ‘get it’.

Presented and founded by Sarah Lawrence, Michael Hughes, and Berenice Howard-Smith, who are involuntarily childless.

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  • Listen to the Full Stop Podcast

    Jody Day, Gateway Women said; “It’s like hearing a conversation in a pub and wanting to pull up a chair and join in.” You can listen to us on Spotify, Apple iTunes, Podbean and on our website.

  • Join the Full Stop Community

    Join our online, diverse and supportive community. Celebrate your wins, get support, and join our wellbeing space and get exclusive live access to the Full Stop podcast as we record.

  • Meet the Full Stop founders

    Learn more about us - Berenice, Michael and Sarah find out what inspires us to leave a legacy.

    Drop us a line, share an idea, or ask for help.

  • Donate and support our work

    Donate to our work via KOFI to help us leave a library of voices for the now and the future. We’re a CIC (Community Interest Company) and operate as a not-for-profit. Every donation goes back into raising awareness.

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View fullsize What would you like us to do next? In seven years we have recorded over 87 episodes which we reckon is over 120 hours of unedited spoken words from our many guests and opened our online Community. We've been on stage, on telly, radio and press. Won
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