Episode 133: Reshmin Chowdhury
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Reshmin Chowdhury is a sports broadcaster who’s had a love of football since she was a little girl.
Growing up in a large and close Bengali community, she told me her childhood memories are of being the only girl, surrounded by boys, watching football on TV.
Reshmin’s drive to break into the world of sports presenting was very strong - much to the surprise of her teacher Mum and accountant Dad - and she is proud to have made it, although she feels it shouldn’t have been that hard. Her parents were very supportive of her dreams and we talked about how difficult it was losing her Dad 3 years ago, and that he was always the person she would pick up the phone to speak to after a big match.
Reshmin shared how her children hold a mirror up to all her faults, including losing her temper. She says she’s working on this and I’ve asked her, when she's solved that one, please share the answer with me 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 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. |
| 0:22.2 | 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. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello and greetings from Cyprus. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm here for a whistle stop gig. |
| 0:44.0 | It's a corporate thing. |
| 0:45.8 | And I flew this morning. |
| 0:47.3 | I left my home at about 5 a.m. |
| 0:50.8 | I'll be back home by lunchtime tomorrow. |
| 0:53.8 | And when I made the plan of this weekend, I was like, yeah, I'll pop off on Saturday, I'll do |
| 0:59.8 | the singing, cut back. |
| 1:01.2 | Richard's away at the moment as well. |
| 1:02.3 | So I was like, I'll get back in time for Sunday lunch, and it'll be fine. |
| 1:05.3 | Didn't actually Google flight times to Cyprus. |
| 1:08.9 | It's quite far, five hours each way. |
| 1:12.4 | But anyway, that's what happened. |
| 1:14.3 | All good. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm looking at every beautiful sunset. |
| 1:17.0 | I've had a swim in the sea. |
| 1:18.1 | I'm about to start getting ready for tonight's thing. |
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