Episode 131: Joanne Hardcastle
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
I first came to follow Joanne Hardcastle (@hardcastletowers) when she was a contestant on the fourth series of Interior Design Masters, which is one of my favourite TV shows. Joanne's husband Tim encouraged her to apply for the show and she says it was the first time she had ever put herself first, and she loves her new found 'me-time'.
Joanne lost her mum at the age of 17 and had a strong urge to become a mum herself, and she has been open about having 6 miscarriages during her motherhood journey. She now has 3 grown up daughters, the youngest being her foster child. She spoke to me about the journey of building up trust with her foster daughter and how she has taught her children not to be frightened of conflict and to know that adults aren't always right.
Like me, Joanne loves colour and vintage interior design, including collecting childhood treasures such as Sindy dolls. She has documented on Instagram, the intricate furnishing of an amazing dolls house which she claims not to play with... but she clearly does!
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. |
| 0:22.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.6 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.6 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.6 | 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. |
| 0:36.6 | This is probably a really unwise time to press record. I'm going to give it a go |
| 0:42.3 | because I found myself with a tiny bit of time when I can say hello to you. I am just back in the UK. |
| 0:51.3 | I haven't spoken to you in ages. How are you? How is everything? Do you have a good summer? |
| 0:57.7 | Does that feel like ages ago? Yes, probably. That's for me too, actually. I think the last |
| 1:03.8 | episode of the podcast went out in, is it June? I didn't mean to get so slack. I normally like to take |
| 1:09.7 | one month off and then come back, but one thing and another. |
| 1:13.6 | And I ended up being a way on tour for the last of a while and it was just a bit tricky to get it together in the way I wanted to do it. |
| 1:21.6 | So yeah, here we are. September, very much a back to school feeling, but in that nice way when you're a grown up and you don't really have to go to school. |
| 1:31.3 | So I am speaking to you from swimming. I'm watching my eight-year-old go up and down the lanes. |
| 1:38.3 | He gets very annoyed if he doesn't think I've watched, although it's obviously also quite a good time to catch up on bits. |
| 1:45.0 | So I'm watching Jess, and I'm speaking to you, and I'm feeling a bit weird because I am just back |
| 1:52.1 | from America. I, well, North America, I should say, I actually flew home from Canada. I went over to |
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