Episode 114: Sandra Igwe
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Sandra Igwe decided to turn a painful experience into purpose.
When we spoke recently she told me about some of her difficult experiences both during childbirth and afterwards.
These led her to become the founder of The Motherhood Group which supports the Black maternal experience. Sandra has also written My Black Motherhood which demands that Black women are listened to, believed and understood by healthcare professionals.
We spoke about Sandra’s two daughters Zoe and Chloe, and the legacy Sandra hopes her work will leave, for when they come to have children.
We also talked about her forthcoming third child. I got a bit over-excited about Sandra’s search for a name for that will rhyme with theirs, as I realised ‘Sophie’ is a near rhyme. Sandra kindly said she’ll let me know!
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 busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:12.1 | 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. |
| 0:20.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing. |
| 0:22.4 | It can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy |
| 0:27.6 | and see how other people balance everything. Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.6 | Greetings. You're with me backstage at Guildford, G-Live venue on what is the, hold on, |
| 0:45.8 | 9th. Is that right? No. I think it might be the 10th, actually, date of the tour. Hold on. |
| 0:52.8 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh no, it's the 11th. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 1:00.0 | It's been going really well. |
| 1:02.0 | If you've come to see us on this tour, |
| 1:05.0 | thank you. What a joy. |
| 1:07.0 | It's been absolutely delightful. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'm so thrilled with the reaction. And it's funny absolutely delightful and I'm so thrilled with their reaction and it's funny with |
| 1:13.7 | this tour I didn't know exactly what it was going to look like or necessarily more songs |
| 1:19.6 | I wanted to sing when I had the first had the idea to do a Christmas tour but one thing I did know |
| 1:24.0 | is how I wanted people to feel when they experienced it. And I just wanted to |
| 1:30.2 | bring some sort of properly festive cheer and a bit of fun. And I've had some really, really |
| 1:35.9 | lovely comments back that people seem to be receiving that feeling. So that has made me feel |
| 1:42.2 | really happy. And sorry, if you can hear the sound as Sharpie. |
| 1:46.5 | It's because while I'm talking to you, I am signing programs. That's me slapping them on the floor. |
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