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Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

196 episodes

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 while I speak to a host of interesting and inspirational women who’ve really made me think - and laugh, and sometimes cry. Welcome to Spinning Plates.

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  1. Episode 195: Frankie Bridge

    · 1 h 08 min · S20 E195

    Frankie Bridge began her pop career aged just 12, as a member of S-Club Juniors. She was later in the hugely successful girl band The Saturdays. We talked about the pressures of being successful as a young teenager,…

  2. Episode 194: Joeli Brearley

    · 1 h 10 min · S20 E194

    Joeli Brearley is a mum of two boys aged 10 and 12. She is a campaigner and author who founded the charity Pregnant Then Screwed, which campaigns against female discrimination in the workplace. Her work on the…

  3. Episode 193: Lauren Petrie

    · 1 h 07 min · S20 E193

    Lauren Petrie is a bereavement midwife. The time when you would meet her in her professional capacity is at the most painful time of a parent’s life: when you have been told, during your pregnancy, that your baby has…

  4. Episode 192: Dolly Jones

    · 1 h 16 min · S20 E192

    Dolly Jones is a former Vogue.com editor who spent over 20 years at Condé Nast overseeing digital content at director level. Based on her experience of motherhood whilst in these roles, she has written a book called…

  5. Episode 191: Caroline Hirons

    · 1 h 01 min · S20 E191

    Caroline Hirons is a skin care expert, author and founder of Skin Rocks. She has just pulished her 4th book 'Skin Rules: Expert Advice You Can Trust'. She told me that she hates writing books becuase of her ADHD but…

  6. Episode 190: Martha Keith

    · 1 h 10 min · S19 E190

    Martha Keith has run her stationery business ‘Martha Brook’ for over a decade, and started the Business Secrets Club two years ago, to help small business owners with things she wishes she’d known when she started out.…

  7. Episode 189: Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress

    · 1 h 05 min · S19 E189

    Catherine Anne Davies is better known by her stage name The Anchoress. She is a musician, producer and a former academic, which results in her providing a fascinating reading list with her art pop albums, of poems and…

  8. Episode 188: Honey Spencer

    · 1 h 13 min · S19 E188

    Honey Spencer is a wine expert who has two little boys aged 6 and 1. She and her husband Charlie run a neighbourhood restaurant called ‘Sune’ in Hackney in East London, which she describes as feeling ‘wholesome and…

  9. Episode 187: Lisa Oxenham

    · 1 h 10 min · S19 E187

    Lisa Oxenham is a mum to Eliza who’s 10 and to Wolfgang who’s nine and a half months old. She started out as beauty editor at More magazine and then worked for Marie Claire magazine for 20 years concentrating on…

  10. Episode 186: Nadine Merabi

    · 1 h 06 min · S19 E186

    Nadine Merabi is a British-Lebanese clothes designer. She is the founder of the brand which shares her name and is based in Manchester. She is mother to two little girls aged 4 and 5. Nadine says at the heart of the…

  11. Episode 185: Becky Barnicoat

    · 1 h 15 min · S19 E185

    Becky Barnicoat is a cartoonist who has recently published the paperback version of her memoir ‘Cry When The Baby Cries’. It’s a cartoon depiction of new motherhood and it makes me laugh out loud. Sleep deprivation;…

  12. Episode 184: India de Beaufort

    · 1 h 12 min · S19 E184

    India de Beaufort @indiadebeaufort is a British actress who lives in Los Angeles. She is also an influencer who shares my passion for vintage and antique clothing. I love her natural flowing posts because the strands…

  13. Episode 183: Siobhan Priest

    · 1 h 10 min · S19 E183

    Siobhan Priest - or Shiv - appears as @thefiremum on Instagram and I love seeing her posts about her life as a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade. Shiv started her working life as a model and continued in that job…

  14. Episode 182: Louise Boyce

    · 1 h 00 min · S19 E182

    Louise Boyce aka @mumastillgotit is a content creator, author and model. She has 3 children aged 13, 10 and 6, and she has developed a huge following for her fun and largely positive take on motherhood, which she…

  15. Episode 181: Dr Sian Williams

    · 1 h 23 min · S19 E181

    Dr Sian Williams is a journalist and broadcaster and author. She trained as a trauma assessor while working at the BBC and is a registered counselling psychologist. She presents the fabulous Radio 4 series and podcast…

  16. Episode 180:Helen Dukes

    · 1 h 08 min · S18 E180

    Helen Dukes is an entrepreneur and DJ, and mum to 2 daughters, 11 year old Anya and 19 year old Lottie . She is the founder of Disko Kids, a clothes and accessories brand that I love for its roots in music, festivals,…

  17. Episode 179: Anna Lunoe

    · 1 h 10 min · S18 E179

    Anna Lunoe is an Australian DJ, singer, songwriter and producer. She lived and worked in LA for 8 years, performing at festivals such as Coachella. She’s now back in her hometown of Sydney, and has an 8 year old…

  18. Episode 178: Fran Cutler

    · 1 h 07 min · S18 E178

    Fran Cutler is famous for organising wild parties attended by A-listers. Things really took off in the 90s when she started organising parties for Oasis albums with Meg Matthews. She’s a self-confessed technophobe and…

  19. Episode 177: Jamie Genevieve

    · 1 h 19 min · S18 E177

    Jamie Genevieve is a Scottish make up artist and entrepreneur. I follow her on Instagram and am so impressed by the brand she’s launched. Some of her products have now become my make up staples. We talked last month…

  20. Episode 176: Nicole Appleton

    · 56 min · S18 E176

    Nicole Appleton is a singer and a mum to Gene aged 24, and Skipper who is nearly 6. She first came into our lives in the 90s when she and her elder sister Natalie were members of the hugely successful band All Saints.…

  21. Episode 175: Dawn Williams

    · 1 h 03 min · S18 E175

    Dawn Williams is a mum of three and an Olympic weightlifter. She is also a campaigner for exercising throughout cancer treatment to get the best possible chance of recovery. And this is all before we even touch on her…

  22. Episode 174: Kelly Rutherford

    · 1 h 01 min · S18 E174

    Kelly Rutherford is an American actress probably best known for her starring role in 7 series of Gossip Girl (2007-2012). Kelly's instagram is the most intentional and curated grid I have ever seen, with beautiful…

  23. Episode 173: Dr Eliza Filby

    · 1 h 18 min · S18 E173

    Dr Eliza Filby is a writer, a generational historian and mum to two children aged 8 and 5. I loved her book ‘Inheritocracy. It’s time to Talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad’ which came out in paperback last year which…

  24. Episode 172: Monisha Rajesh

    · 1 h 08 min · S18 E172

    Monisha Rajesh is a travel writer who focuses on train travel adventures. She wrote her first book ‘Around India in 80 Trains’ after being made redundant, and she wrote ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ just after her…

  25. Episode 171: Rachel Reeves

    · 1 h 24 min · S18 E171

    Welcome to a new series of Spinning Plates! My podcast where I speak to working women who happen to be mothers. We are up to episode 171 now, and fast approaching 6 years since I started the podcast with Fearne Cotton…

  26. Episode 170: Amanda Ross

    · 1 h 15 min · S17 E170

    Amanda Ross is a highly influential TV producer who has brought us the likes of Saturday Kitchen which celebrates its 20th anniversary next year, the Richard and Judy show which ran for 9 years, and the book show,…

  27. Episode 169: Jacinda Ardern

    · 1 h 12 min · S17 E169

    Dame Jacinda Ardern is the former prime minister of New Zealand, who was elected in 2017 and in post for 6 years. In 2018 she became the second elected World leader to ever give birth. Her partner Clarke (often…

  28. Episode 168: Fiona Bell

    · 1 h 02 min · S17 E168

    Fiona Bell is the founder of Their Nibs clothing brand which specialises in night wear. I first came across Fiona’s shop when pushing my eldest son around Ladbroke Grove in his buggy in the mid naughties. And I still…

  29. Episode 167: Lavina Mehta

    · 1 h 03 min · S17 E167

    Lavina Mehta MBE is a health campaigner, a personal trainer, and an author. She came to my notice during Covid when she started doing weekly exercises on YouTube with her mother-in-law. She’s just published her book…

  30. Episode 166: Lara Maiklem

    · 1 h 05 min · S17 E166

    Lara Maiklem is an author and a mudlark. She told me there’s nothing she likes more than kneeling on the banks of the River Thames for 5-6 hours at a time, scanning the mud for tiny treasures which are twice daily…

  31. Episode 165: Julie Samuel

    · 1 h 04 min · S17 E165

    Julia Samuel is a psychotherapist and an author, who is best known as a grief counsellor. She was one of the founders of Child Bereavement UK which has just had its 30th anniversary. She has an agony aunt column for…

  32. Episode 164: Janette Manrara

    · 1 h 13 min · S17 E164

    Janette Manrara is a dancer and choreographer who we first got to know as one of the professional dancers in the UK on Strictly Come Dancing, and who now presents its sister show ‘It Takes Two’. Janette is married to…

  33. Episode 163: Anya Lautenbach

    · 51 min · S17 E163

    Anya Lautenbach is a gardener who I discovered on Instagram as anya_thegarden_fairy. From Poland originally, Anya moved to to the UK 17 years ago and has two boys aged 12 and 14. We talked about the grief which Anya…

  34. Episode 162: Jo-Ann D’Costa-Manuel

    · 1 h 04 min · S17 E162

    Jo-Ann D’Costa-Manuel is a charity pioneer. She received an OBE for her years of voluntary work raising the profile of hidden disabilities. She persuaded airlines to recognise green lanyards with sunflowers, as a…

  35. Episode 161: Francesca Amber

    · 1 h 18 min · S17 E161

    Francesca Amber is a successful entrepreneur, podcaster and author who turned her life around using manifesting after everything went wrong for her in 2020. She has 3 daughters. Her eldest is 8 years old, and she has…

  36. Episode 160: Genevieve Turley

    · 1 h 04 min · S16 E160

    Genevieve Turley is a make up artist who posts funny content online, making light of makeup tutorials and not taking her self seriously at all. We talked about how wearing makeup makes us both happy. She told me about…

  37. Episode 159: Ro Fielden-Cook

    · 1 h 09 min · S16 E159

    Ro Fielden-Cook is a woman with a heck of a life story. She has 3 sons: twins Alfie and Charlie (aged 15) and Freddie (aged 7). She is the founder of a wellbeing and fitness community ‘The SHE Collective’ which has a…

  38. Episode 158: Ranvir Singh

    · 1 h 06 min · S16 E158

    Ranvir Singh is a TV news presenter on Good Morning Britain, who I met on the set of ‘Lorraine’ about a year ago - and I’ve been wanting to talk to her in more depth ever since. Ranvir is a single parent to her 13…

  39. Episode 157: Laura Hamilton

    · 1 h 02 min · S16 E157

    Laura Hamilton is a TV presenter best known for presenting A Place in the Sun. She’s been renovating properties since the age of 19 and has just taken on her first overseas project in Majorca, which she’s filming, to…

  40. Episode 156: Cathy Dennis

    · 1 h 18 min · S16 E156

    Cathy Dennis is a singer and a songwriter. I have been a huge fan of hers for years both through her solo music career and I’ve been lucky enough to write with her and get to know over the years. She is a true talent…

  41. Episode 155: Jill Halfpenny

    · 1 h 17 min · S16 E155

    Jill Halfpenny has been an actor since the age of 10, first coming to our screens in Byker Grove in 1989, and most recently appearing in the Channel 5 drama The Feud. She has also appeared in Coronation Street,…

  42. Episode 154: Rachel Kelly

    · 1 h 19 min · S16 E154

    Rachel Kelly is a writer of many books about mental health and wellbeing and has recently published ‘The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less’. She is a mum of five grown up children. Rachel and I talked about…

  43. Episode 153: Salima Saxton

    · 1 h 20 min · S16 E153

    Salima Saxton is a writer, an actor and a coach, and she co-presents the podcast ‘Women are Mad’. She has 3 children aged 9, 12 and 15 and she recently caught my attention with her amazing Moth story about a…

  44. Episode 152: Karni Arieli

    · 1 h 11 min · S16 E152

    Karni Arieli is a photographer. Her lockdown project Eye Mama @eyemamaproject asked photographer mums all over the world to share honest pictures of their own experiences of motherhood. She has just had it published as…

  45. Episode 151: Paula Radcliffe

    · 1 h 05 min · S16 E151

    Olympic athlete and TV commentator Paula Radcliffe lives in Monaco with her husband Gary, and her two children Isla and Raphael. Paula is a 3 time winner of the London Marathon and held the Women's World Marathon…

  46. Episode 150: Daria Khrystenko

    · 1 h 05 min · S15 E150

    Daria Khrystenko fled her home in Kyiv on the day that Russia invaded Ukraine 3 years ago. She, her then 10 year old son, her mum and her 3 cats travelled to Poland where Daria now works with CARE Poland, as a…

  47. Episode 149: Susie Crow

    · 1 h 11 min · S15 E149

    Susie Crow runs a small business called Let Us Pretend, in which she ‘makes sparkly things’. I have bought wonderful brightly coloured, fringed capes from her which say ‘Happy New Year!’ and ‘Happy Christmas!’ She also…

  48. Episode 148: Tuppence Middleton

    · 1 h 09 min · S15 E148

    Actress Tuppence Middleton is perhaps best known for playing Lucy Branson in Downton Abbey. She has a little girl with her Swedish husband and divides her time between England and Sweden. I spoke to Tuppence the week…

  49. Episode 147: Arlene Phillips

    · 1 h 02 min · S15 E147

    Arlene Phillips is a choregrapher who has been at the top of her game for most of her 81 years. She has worked on the choreography for numerous adverts, musicals, film and videos. She has two daughters: Alana who she…

  50. Episode 146: Princess Superstar

    · 1 h 08 min · S15 E146

    Princess Superstar is an American rapper and DJ. She and I are ‘Saltburn sisters’ as we both had our songs featured in the film, which gave them their exciting resurgence of popularity last year. Princess Superstar…

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