Episode 113: Julia Bradbury
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Julia Bradbury is a TV presenter and an author with a passion for the outdoors.
She has a 12 year old son, and 8 year old twin daughters who she had through IVF. Her motto to them is: 'Be good, be strong, be kind'.
We met at Julia's London West London home and talked about how in 2021, she and her husband had the nightmare task of breaking the news of her breast cancer diagnosis to their children. She also mentioned how 'Fruitfly Collective' and 'Maggie's Centres' can support all sorts of people at these difficult times. She is thankfully now in remission: working back in TV and writing, but making sure she puts her health first.
Julia talked to me about how she feels we're all suffering an indoor epidemic at the moment and how she is doing all she can to live in a healthy way. She shares a lot of those thoughts in the book she has just published called 'Walk Yourself Happy', which reflects her belief in health through nature. Even in London, she manages to have her nature fix first thing every morning by sitting on her (very safe) windowsill and getting the morning light as soon as she wakes up. She then takes further 'nature snacks' through the day.
I left Julia feeling full of positivity and good intentions, vowing never to eat sugary cereal ever again! It remains to be seen whether I manage to change my ways...
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 Lyspexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, it can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.6 | and your own ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello to you, greetings from Ipswich. |
| 0:38.3 | I am now about to do my sixth gig of the tour today. |
| 0:44.3 | And I had a lovely day actually. |
| 0:46.3 | It's been really chilled after I had quite a lazy morning |
| 0:52.3 | because I get quite adrenalised after the gig, so I'm not going to sleep till quite late. |
| 0:56.4 | So last night we played in Cambridge. |
| 0:58.7 | It was really fun. |
| 1:00.4 | And went to a nice pub after the gig as well. |
| 1:03.8 | I had drink somewhere local. |
| 1:05.1 | Felt really quite Christmassy, which might seem like a funny thing to say as someone who's already doing a Christmas tour. |
| 1:12.0 | But there's Christmas, then there's Christmas. |
| 1:16.5 | And, yes, we're a fairly late night and then I had a fairly leisurely morning, |
| 1:21.0 | which was lovely and watched a bit of mean girls and tea and toast on the bus. |
| 1:24.6 | And then went for a wander around town, went down to the water, |
| 1:28.7 | like the marina in Ipswich. It was a really beautiful blue sky, sunny day, |
| 1:33.1 | and I've been wandering all over town, and I have in my other hand, I'm sorry, I'm in the streets. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm in the streets of Ipswich. I have in my hands a bit more Christmas shopping actually. Doing quite well. I'm doing |
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