Episode 132: Nine Tame
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Nina Tame is a counsellor and a content creator. I started following her on Instagram because I love the way she educates non-disabled people in a light-hearted way.
Nina was born with spinal bifida, and has four children. Her third child was also born with spina bifida. His arrival helped Nina accept her own disability much more, and also helped her own mum come to terms with her complex feelings, including guilt of having a disabled child. Incidentally, I spoke to Nina when she had recently lost her mum and we talked about her difficult journey of grief and the huge support of her other half, Jase.
Nina is a great storyteller and made me laugh while telling me how awkward platform lifts at theatre venues feel. But the message beneath the story was that what disables her all over again in life, is not the disability but it is inaccessibility or other people’s attitudes.
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 Lysbexter 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 |
| 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 | Hey, hey, it is I. How are you? If you live in the UK, have you been coping with the weather this week? |
| 0:42.3 | I'm sorry to be British and bring it up, but it's just been raining off and on the whole time. |
| 0:46.3 | I don't mind a bit of rain, that's fine. But what I am struggling with is the way that the weather is actually sort of flirting with it. |
| 0:52.3 | So it'll rain downpour, stop, you can leave |
| 0:55.7 | house. Oh, a bit of sunshine. This is good. Why don't I bring my sunglasses? Oh no, it's raining |
| 1:00.6 | again. I'm wet. This morning on the school run, I got drenched. I wore impractical footwear. It was my own |
| 1:07.1 | fault. Anyway, no matter. Everything's fine. I'm loving being at home, actually. |
| 1:11.8 | So I'd rather be wet on the school run than cozy on a tour bus miles from home. |
| 1:16.0 | So this is good. |
| 1:17.1 | And I've been organizing and sorting myself, just getting on with things at home, the to-do list, |
| 1:23.0 | prepping things for the new single, because that's all done. |
| 1:26.4 | I only got it mastered this week, so that's |
| 1:28.2 | exciting. I'm really happy with how it sounds. Yay! Got there in the end. Exciting times. So I'm starting |
| 1:34.9 | to finish off the album. The single is going to go to radio, I think, October the 18th or something. |
| 1:40.9 | So quite soon, I'm filming the video in a couple of weeks. I love this bit, to be |
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