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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 100: Julia Haart

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor ·

2023/06/26

Julia Haart is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur and author of her bestselling autobiography 'Brazen'.She was also the subject and executive director of the Netflix documentary series 'My Unorthodox Life', about her life as a working mother of 4, after she left her ultra-orthodox Jewish life.Julia updated me on her latest projects including a new type of shapewear that she has developed.She explained how her little daughter Miriam gave her the courage to leave her husband and their

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Episode 99: Kate Ferdinand

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2023/06/19

Kate Ferdinand is a TV personality and author who is married to footballer Rio Ferdinand. Kate was best known on TV for appearing on Towie and now has a successful podcast called Blended.1 in 4 families in Britain are now blended and Kate is stepmum to Rio's 3 older children Lorenz, Tate and Tia.She loves them as her own children.She and Rio also have a toddler called Cree and she is expecting a new baby next month.So soon she'll have five children, just like me!Kate talked to me about her two

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Episode 98: Anne Fish

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2023/06/12

Anne Fish is a mum of two sons... and a pro gamer.When her younger son Benjy won a Fortnite tournament aged 14, he also won thousands of dollars and it became clear it was a serious sport that he wanted to pursue.Anne made the decision to homeschool him fromt he age of 15, to make room for the late-night tournaments and the long hours of practice that Benjy had to put into gaming.She also got more involved in Fortnite herself.As a self-confessed workaholic she put hours of practice in, became a pro

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Episode 97: Gemma Bird

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2023/06/05

Gemma Bird@moneymumofficialis a hard working mum of two from Essex who after years of working multiple jobs at the same time, managedto pay off her mortgage, and is now a constant source of money-saving tips and ideas on instagram, and a regular on Lorraine's Saver Squad. She's a fast-talking, determined and positive person, who is also very open about her struggles with anxiety and depression, and I really valued her honesty when we met.I went to visit Gemma at her home in Essex earlier this year,

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Episode 96: Emma Dabiri

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2023/05/29

Emma Dabiri is an Irish writer, academic and broadcaster - and an expert on race.Born to a Nigerian dad and an Irish mum, Emma experienced extremely different environments growing up: first in a predominantly black area of America and then moving to Southern Ireland where she found herself in the opposite - a very white and racist society.She remembered how a bookshop in Dublin was hersanctuary and saviour as a child.It turned out it was aradical bookshop - and we agreed that books can provide a

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Episode: 95 Heidi Range

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2023/05/22

Heidi Range is best known as a former member of the girlgroups Atomic Kitten and then Sugababes.It feels like she was destined to become part of pop history from an early age. A good start was being born in the very musical city of Liverpool!She was part of a children's road show from theage of 12, with her and herfriends performing songs such as Copacabana at all the social clubs in the area.She successfully auditioned to be part of Atomic Kitten aged 15, and later replaced Siobhan Donahy in

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Episode 94: Hannah Fry

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2023/05/15

Hannah Fry is a mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. She applies maths to pretty much everything in her life. She gave a TEDTalk in 2014 on the maths of dating, and in 2022 she made a documentary called ‘Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry’ about her personal experience of cervical cancer, in which she unpacked the surprising statistics behind cancer diagnosis, treatment and success. It’s a fascinating watch which I have recommended to many friends.Hannah has two daughters

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Episode 93: Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

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2023/05/08

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton (or Sab) took my breath away when I met her. She has achieved, and continues to achieve, so much despite her early life being incrediblytough.Sab found herself homeless aged 16 after her beloved Dad died and her mum's mental health crumbled.She talked to me about how she has sufferedfrom hyper-vigilance ever since, as the strategies she developed for keeping safe while sleeping rough, are still there.She eventually found a place to live and was determined to become a fire

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Episode 92: Tess Daley

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2023/05/01

Tess Daly, known nationwide for her role fronting Strictly Come Dancing for the last two decades, is also mum to two teenage daughters, Phoebe andAmber.We spoke over zoom a couple of weeks ago (apologies for any little glitches caused by the technology) and we had a lovely chat.We talked about Tess's beloved dad who, despite being ill, made sure he walked her down the aisle, but who died during Tess and Vernon's honeymoon.She said he taught her gratitude for life, and how she'd have loved her

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Episode 91: Katie Melua

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2023/04/24

Katie Melua had massive fame at the age of 19 with the release of her first album 'Call Off the Search', and then 2 years later with her hit 'Nine Million Bicycles'. She has brought out 8 albums since then, with her 9th album 'Love & Money' which she recorded last year while she was pregnant, just released last month.We met recently at her house when her gorgeous baby boy was just 3 months old.She talked about how her thoughts about parenthood have changed over the years from wondering whether

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Episode 90: Hannah Chambers

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2023/03/13

Hannah Chambers has spent 25 years in the comedy management business looking after many famous comedians including Jimmy Carr, Sarah Millican, Joe Lycett and Aisling Bea.As she explains, she has given up herMonday to Friday fully for her job, and in fact it's not unusual for her to work 14 hour days, often spending evenings watching stand up shows or TV recordings that her clients are appearing in. She loves her job and says she's a bit like a Jewish mother to her clients: pushy, but wanting them to

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Episode 89: Siobhán Donaghy

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2023/03/06

Siobhán Donaghy is a singer songwriter best known as one of the Sugababes. The Sugababes have now reformed in their original line-up and last year wowed Glastonbury to the extent they had to close the field they were performing to, because so many people wanted to get to see them - shows just how delighted people are to have the band back together.Siobhán signed her first record deal at the incredibly young age of 14, and told me how her mum and dad agreed to put their house on the line for her

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Episode 88: Jessie Ware

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2023/02/27

I met up with singer and broadcaster Jessie Ware at her home in South London, on the very day her new single 'Pearls' was released. She told me how she'd had to miss the school run that morning to record a TikTok of herself listening to the first play of the single, while dancing in her kitchen.What a strange job we have!We also talked about how funny it is when your two worlds of music and motherhood collide: like when one of Jessie's mum-friends did a double take when she saw her at a children's

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Episode 87: Claire Hodgson

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2023/02/20

Claire Hodgson is a theatre director who hates rules and who wants to make a difference to the world through the shows that she makes.I first met her last year at Camp Bestival, when she was coordinating the Guinness world record attempt for the largest number of simultaneous disco dancers!! 600 altogether - and they did it!!We talked about how Claire, her brother and her sister cleaned up on disco dancing medals as children and how she went on to found a company called Diverse City, and

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Episode 86: Anna Haugh

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2023/02/13

Anna Haugh is an Irish chef at the top of her game, who runs her own restaurants in Chelsea and Dublin, and who you may know as one of the judges onMasterchef and as a regular on Saturday Kitchen.It was on Saturday Kitchen last year that I first met Anna, when her baby boy Oisin was just 8 weeks old. I was struck by her absolute joy in motherhood and when we spoke recently I learned how Oisin was a much longed for IVF baby.Anna told me she is generally good at appreciating the here and now, and

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Episode 85: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

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2023/02/06

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and science communicator and presenter of The Sky at Night and the BBC's GCSE Science Live! lectures.She also presented the series Out of this World, on CBBC during lockdown with her daughter, Lauren, now 11.Maggie had her daughterwhen she was 42 and carried on doing science talks around the world, often with her little girl on stage with her, for the first 4 years of Lauren's life.I particularly marvelled at the Royal Institute lecture I found on YouTube

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Episode 84: Sara Davies

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2023/01/30

Sara Davies is the warm-hearted, fast-talking, hard-working entrepreneur you will know from Dragons Den. She still lives in the same village in County Durham where she grew up and is married to Simon who she started dating when she was 15. They have two boys: Oliver and Charlie.We met up at my house a couple of hours after her weekly QVCappearance and we talked about looking in the camera during zoom conversations, being 100% present with whatever you’re doing, her early struggles with

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Episode 83: Philippa Perry

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2023/01/23

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist, artist and writer who has a weekly agony aunt columnin the Observer. She has written the only book on parenting that I feel speaks to me, and that I recommend to other people.It's called: 'The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did)'.Her big messages are that talking to your children about feelings is key, and that all feelings are acceptable, so don't shut them down.I agreed with her whenshesaid: how well you get on with

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Episode 82: Cerys Matthews

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2023/01/16

Cerys Matthews is a Welsh singer, presenter and writer.I first became aware of her when I was starting out with my first band Theaudience.She was then with her band Catatonia, which was big- and part of the Cool Cymru trend.After Cerys left that band she went on a voyage of musical discovery while living in a cabin in the woods near Tennessee - an experience she draws on to this day when curating her radio shows.Her excellent 6Music show is a big part of our Sundays.We love it.I spoke to Cerys at

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Episode 81: Davina McCall

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2023/01/09

Davina McCall has been an energetic and enthusiatic presence on our TV screens for decades.As a teenager I loved watching her dating show Streetmate, and God's Gift which I adored. Then I was glued to the screen as she fronted Big Brother for 11 series between 2000 and 2010, and more recently she's presented ITV's emotional series Long Lost Family and of course the pure fun show The Masked Singer, which I did a couple of years ago and it is back again this month.Davina and I spoke in November when I

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