18. Melanie C: Everyone is good enough

The Joe Wicks Podcast

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The UK’s favourite fitness coach is back with series two of his podcast. This summer, Joe will be speaking to inspirational friends and some of his favourite people to ask them what they do to keep themselves feeling mentally and physically strong in the face of life’s little challenges. It might be going for a new personal best on the running machine or cosying up with a good book; every guest will share the one thing that works for them in the hope it might inspire you to try something new. This week, Joe caught up with Sporty Spice, the back-flipping queen of Girl Power herself, Melanie C. She shared what it's like to finish, release and promote an album all through an international lockdown, and how her and her family have been keeping healthy while stuck at home. Melanie also shared stories about the Spice Girls days - the highs and lows of being in one of the most stratospherically popular bands of all time, and the pressure that put on all of them. These days, her music is all about self-acceptance and being who you really are, and that's a message that Melanie wants ALL her fans to get on board with. This is sunshine in a podcast. Joe Wicks is here for you, and he won’t stop until you’re fit and happy. Producer: Emily Knight Editor: Dimitri Houtart A BBC Audio Bristol production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hi everybody, I'm Jo Wix and welcome
0:12.1	to my podcast from BBC Radio 4. This is the place where I get to catch up some of my
0:16.4	favourite people and find out about the things they do to keep feeling physically fit and
0:20.4	also mentally on top of the world too. I love feeling inspired by what people are going
0:24.4	to achieve when they put their minds to it and I'm hoping that their stories might inspire
0:27.5	you to take care of yourself too.
0:29.5	A few weeks back I spoke to the one and only Sir Tom Jones and in this episode it's
0:36.2	another pop icon on the show. I got to chat to an actual spice girl, yep, Melanie C,
0:41.7	Sporty Spice, the back flipping queen of Girl Power herself. She told me all about what
0:45.9	it was like to release an album in the middle of an international lockdown and delved into
0:49.4	some of the hires and lows of her amazing pop career. She sewed down to earth and managed
0:53.4	to be really positive even about some of the tough times she's been through and believed
0:57.2	me some of them have been really tough. A quick warning to anyone suffering from an eating
1:01.3	disorder or exercise addiction, we do get into Melanie's struggles with both so do be kind
1:05.6	to yourself if you choose to listen. I hope you enjoy our chat, let's get into it.
1:09.6	Hello Mel, thank you so much for making time to be a guest on my podcast. I thought you
1:16.4	know if I'm going to write my guest list, my dream list, I've got to have a spice girl
1:19.4	on there and it had to be Sporty Spice, so thanks for finding the time.
1:21.7	Ah, it's my pleasure, thank you for having me.
1:24.2	So we've had a couple of chats and we worked together a little bit over the lockdown virtually
1:27.7	obviously where you helped out with my 24-hour Pee with Joe Challenge which is a all night
1:32.2	long work and you joined in for a work and then we caught up over the radio but how's
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