Episode 120: Michelle Kennedy
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Kennedy is a tech entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is CEO of Peanut App, and mum to two young children, Finlay and Nuala.
Michelle started her working life as a corporate lawyer and became interested in tech when she worked for Badoo and then Bumble.
She set up Peanut after she gave birth to her first child and felt lonely and isolated.
Peanut is an online community for women, as Michelle says, at 'seismic stages' of their life including fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. It's a place where women can come and speak honestly with other women going through the same stage of life as them, and she feels it acts as a social barometer of which issues are important to women.
I certainly wish it had been around when I had my first baby. And I look forward to watching Michelle's plans unfold for creating a space for young girls to talk about their challenges in their teen years... Little me could have done with that too!
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. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, how are you doing? You're joining me as I walk home from a children's party. I am walking |
| 0:42.0 | home without my children. I left them there. I'm going home to get my bits and bulbs together |
| 0:48.8 | because Richard and I are off out DJing tonight. And yeah, this week has actually been all right it's been busy also |
| 0:57.8 | a bit some of what's going on but I'm feeling feeling pretty steady I have had quite a lot of |
| 1:05.9 | stuff come in the diary for some exciting trips and it was making me feel a bit conflicted so on the one hand I was like how |
| 1:14.3 | nice to have all these lovely places to sing and on the other hand like will my children still |
| 1:20.2 | recognise me at the end of it so I made the decision to actually just bring them with me and for |
| 1:26.5 | different bits and bobs. |
| 1:30.4 | Obviously they're all at school, so I have to be a bit clever about it. |
| 1:34.9 | But yeah, it's made me feel so much better. |
| 1:40.3 | I think sometimes when you're doing things, it's very easy to sort of compartmentalise to the point where you've actually forgotten that if you kind of involve people in different elements of what you're up to, you can actually achieve quite a lot and feel a bit better. |
| 1:50.0 | And actually it's more fun as well. |
| 1:52.0 | So I've got a trip in a couple of weeks when I'm going to Australia. |
| 1:55.0 | It's a really short trip. |
| 1:57.0 | But it's a long way to go. |
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