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Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Hello I’m Sophie Ellis-Bextor and this is my podcast: Spinning Plates where I speak to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work. I am a singer and have released 8 albums in-between having my 5 sons who are aged between 7 and 22 so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother can be the most amazing thing.. but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. I want to be a little bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Join me

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Episode 140: Anna Williamson

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2024/11/25

Anna Williamson is a presenter, podcaster, author, psychotherapist, relationship counsellor and life coach.She told me how she suffered with poor mental health in her 20s and after the birth of her first child. These experiences really shaped her and helped form one of the best marriages in her professional life: being a psychotherapist on Celebs Go Dating ( which happens to be one of my favourite shows).Anna has an eight-year-old son Enzo and a four-year-old daughter Eleonora. We talked about her

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Episode 139: Lliana Bird

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2024/11/18

Lliana Bird is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder of the charity Choose Love.She describes herself as a butterfly flitting from flower to flower.She was also the longest employed female DJ - for 16 years - at Xfm and then Radio X as it is now called.Lliana and her partner Noel Fielding have two girls, Dali and Iggy, aged 2 and 4, and Lliana told me how their house might be described as over-stimulating by some, with constant music, curated mostly by Noel but increasingly by the children, and with

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Episode 138: Sara Pascoe

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2024/11/10

Sara Pascoe is a stand up comedian who I particularly love.She now has two little boys after a long period of trying for a baby, including IVF.She spoke honestly to me about how she can remember being in a liminal head space for a long time while trying for ababy, and acknowledges she was 'horribly spiky' about parenthoodbefore she had her boys, realising now that it was self-protection and a coping mechanism.She shared that she recently had a phone call from Robbie Williams who she idolised as a

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Episode 137: Holly McNish

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2024/11/04

Hollie McNish is a poet who tours the country performing her poems. She says the whole of the UK is full of amazing theatres and bookshops.I love Hollie's writing, the way she looks at motherhood, and how she always stand up for her small person, which I feel is empowering for them both. I was delighted when she offered to read one of my favourite poems of hers during our chat.Hollie told me how she books her own gigs, which impresses me a lot. She said that she loves travelling around Britain

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Episode 136: Steph Douglas

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2024/10/28

Steph Douglas is a mum of three who founded the gift company Don't Buy Her Flowers ten years ago.I’m a repeat customer of the website when I want to send a friend some TLC if they don’t live round the corner.Steph explained how the idea for her company came about when she received 8 well-meant bouquets following the birth of her first child - and felt she now had something else she had to look after, as well as her newborn!Steph told me how she and her husband also had something unusually tough to

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Episode 135: Ashley James

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2024/10/21

Ashley James is a presenter and DJ who first made her name appearing briefly in Made in Chelsea. On instagram@ashleylouisejames has a huge following amongst 25-35 year old women and she frequently posts about being a mum of two little ones, and about other women's issues.Originally from the North East, you would never know that from Ashley's accent. She told me about her extraordinary school days, and very tough adolescence, after she won a scholarship to an all boys boarding school.Ashley is mum to

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Episode 134: Sister Bliss

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2024/10/14

Ayalah Bentovim - known as Sister Bliss - is the woman behind Faithless, which she created in 1995 with Rollo Armstrong, Jamie Catto, and the legendary Buddhist rapper Maxi Jazz.Maxi died in 2022 and Ayalah talked to me about how she’s managing to keep him as part of the show, as they prepare to go on tour for the first time in 8 years.We also talked about how she took her son Nate on tour as a baby and how he adapted so brilliantly to life on the road, with Faithless.Nate has just turned 18 and

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Episode 133: Reshmin Chowdhury

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2024/10/07

Reshmin Chowdhury is a sports broadcaster who’s had a love of football since she was a little girl.Growing up in a large and close Bengali community, she told me her childhood memories are of being the only girl, surrounded by boys, watching football on TV.Reshmin’s drive to break into the world of sports presenting was very strong - much to the surprise of her teacher Mum and accountant Dad - and she is proud to have made it, although she feels it shouldn’t have been that hard. Her parents were

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Episode 132: Nine Tame

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2024/09/30

Nina Tame is a counsellor and a content creator. I started following her on Instagram because I love the way she educates non-disabled people in a light-hearted way.Nina was born with spinal bifida, and has four children. Her third child was also born with spina bifida. His arrival helped Nina accept her own disability much more, and also helped her own mum come to terms with her complex feelings, including guilt of having a disabled child. Incidentally, I spoke to Nina when she had recently lost

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Episode 131: Joanne Hardcastle

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2024/09/23

I first came to follow Joanne Hardcastle (@hardcastletowers) when she was a contestant on the fourth series of Interior Design Masters, which is one of my favourite TV shows. Joanne's husband Tim encouraged her toapply for the show and she says it was the first time she had ever put herself first, and she loves her new found 'me-time'.Joanne lost her mum at the age of 17 and had a strong urge to become a mum herself, and she has been open about having 6 miscarriages during her motherhood journey.She

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Episode 130: Kirsten Lane

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2024/06/03

Kirsten Lane is a freelance music supervisor who negotiates the deals that make it possible to put music into films, TV and adverts. She was the music supervisor for Saltburn and so that is how we met. She is now part of Murder on the Dancefloor’s journey and helped make its inclusion in the film’s soundtrack possible, naked dance and all!We talked about the importance of music in changing the atmosphere, and she sees it almost as another character on screen.Kirsten told me how she had made her

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Episode 129: Anne Twist

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2024/05/27

Anne Twist is a first time writer and a long-term philanthropist who has two very succesful grown up children.Her eldest is podcaster and writer Gemma Styles, and her youngest is the singer, Harry Styles.I spoke to Anne, not long after she’d become a grandmother for the first time, which sounds like a very special feeling indeed.She’d also just published her first children’s book ‘Betty and the Mysterious Visitor’.We talked about Anne’s lifelong battle with shyness, the pride that she feels about

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Episode 128: Rachel Jackson

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2024/05/20

Rachel Jackson is a jewellery designer whose work I particularly love.We even collaborated with on a necklace design once.She discovered her passion for her career while solo travelling in South America where she made a good friend Ali in Brazil and then spent 2 months living with his mum Cinderela (yes that really was her name!) who taught her how to make jewellery. 6 weeks after she returned to the UK Ali was killed in a plane accident which made Rachel feel how fleeting life is.She then gave up a

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Episode 127: Natalie Cassidy

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2024/05/13

Natalie Cassidy is familiar to us all from EastEnders where she's been playing Sonia since the age of 10!When we met she told me about her love of growing up on a TV set, where age meant nothing and her best friendwas June Brown, who was 50 years older than her!Natalieis a mum of two daughters, Eliza and Joanie.My heart melted when she described how she and her husband Marc met when Eliza was just three, and he said he'd fallen in love first with Natalie and then when he met Eliza, he fell in love

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Episode 126: Natasha Khan aka Bat for Lashes

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2024/05/06

Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan is a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and a mum to a three year old.She has just brought out her 6th album and this one is inspired by the birth of her daughter and is called The Dream of Delphi.She was pregnant in LA during Covid and the album recalls how she reconnected with nature during that time, reflecting the landscape of the city, mountains and the desert. She's now separated from Delphi's Dad but explained they are still best friends and

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Episode 125: Vicky Gill

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2024/04/29

Vicky Gill is the Wardrobe Lead for StrictlyCome Dancing, amongst many other things! We first met when I appeared on theshow in 2013. She is passionate about merging fashion and performance. I can vouch for the fact that she is supremely talentedat making costumes that people can dance in - and her sparkly leotards are still part of my onstage essentials today. But as a mum of three she was also great at sharing glimpses of normal family life with me, which you very much appreciate when you are on

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Episode 124: Michelle Ogundehin

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2024/04/22

Michelle Ogundehin is best known as the head judge of Interior Designs Masterclass on BBC 1. It’s a programme I am utterly addicted to, and I was therefore delighted to have been asked to join as a guest judge for semi finals week, this week (TX 23/4/24). I have been a fan of Michelle’s expert eye when it comes to interiors for a long time, having devoured every issue of Elle Decoration published during her time as editor in chief from 2004 to 2017. I love her approach to homes and how they make you

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Episode 123: Heather James

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2024/04/15

Heather James is best known to us all as the mum of Deborah James, the beautiful bowelbabe, who I interviewed for Spinning Plates 3 years ago.That was the year before her premature death at the age of 40, from bowel cancer.Heather explained how she is grieving but working.Not only working in her day job as a gymnastics teacher, but also doing everything that Deborah would have continued with - including campaigning to highlight April as Bowel Cancer Awareness month.Deborah spent the last weeks of

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Episode 122: Natasha Bedingfield

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2024/04/08

Natasha Bedingfield is a New Zealand-UK singer and songwriter who started out in the business at a similar time to me.Another shared link is that we are both currently on a new adventure with songs we brought out originally in our early 20s! How's that for a coincidence?We've each been on an unexpected and exciting journey with our old songs... both because of recent films.The film 'Anyone but You' featured Natasha's 'Unwritten' which originally charted nearly 20 years ago.And my adventure has been

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Episode 121: Trinny Woodall

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2024/02/12

Trinny Woodall is the CEO of the beautybrand Trinny London - she's an entrepreneur, businesswoman and author.She became a household name in the late 90s when she teamed up withSusannah Constantine to present the TV makeover show What Not to Wear.Last year she published her book Fearless about how to find your style and boost your confidence.She has a 20 year old daughter Lyla, who she describes as joyful, and she told me how, without her own roadmap to motherhood, she found a way to bring Lyla up,

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