Bonus Episode: Janet Ellis
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This is an extra special bonus episode in partnership with the lovely team at Clarks.
Thanks to Clarks, I have brought my mum, Janet Ellis, back for this special shoecentric chat! We talked about the excitement of buying your child’s first pair of shoes, and we happily admit that we very much share the sentimental gene, as we have kept all our children’s ‘firsts’. My mum even has them on display as you go down the stairs to her kitchen.
My Ma also shares her memory of a Clark’s badge that she got as a child - I think they should bring those back - they are very sweet!!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, well this is rather lovely. So this is an extra special bonus episode of spinning plates |
| 0:41.4 | and it's brought to you by the wonderful team at Clarks who are for growing feet in safe hands. |
| 0:46.9 | And this is a really special thing. I've never actually done a special episode of spinning plates before |
| 0:51.6 | and I've also never had a guest return before but seeing as |
| 0:56.0 | clerks spoke to me about the idea of having an episode to chat about all things early shoes and |
| 1:01.1 | memories of clerks from my childhood how I found taking Mickey for his first shoes I thought |
| 1:06.4 | who better to talk to than my own mother so I to my mum, who is known to other people as |
| 1:12.6 | Janet Ellis, for one of the first episodes of the podcast I ever did. So this was way back in 2020 |
| 1:18.9 | that we sat down and spoke together. And I absolutely loved it. It's funny. And when I had the |
| 1:26.6 | idea to do the podcast at all so speaking to you know |
| 1:29.5 | working women who are also mothers of course i was going to speak to my mum it's such a natural |
| 1:35.1 | thing and i got so much of my take on how to be a working mom from my own mom but actually i got so |
| 1:42.2 | much more than that from sitting down with her |
| 1:44.3 | I thought it was going to feel a little bit weird interviewing my mum |
| 1:47.3 | but actually it just felt really lovely |
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