Episode 135: Ashley James
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Ashley James is a presenter and DJ who first made her name appearing briefly in Made in Chelsea. On instagram @ashleylouisejames has a huge following amongst 25-35 year old women and she frequently posts about being a mum of two little ones, and about other women's issues.
Originally from the North East, you would never know that from Ashley's accent. She told me about her extraordinary school days, and very tough adolescence, after she won a scholarship to an all boys boarding school.
Ashley is mum to 1 year old Ada and 3 year old Alfie and although she wasn't focused on becoming a mum, she shared with me that it's surprised her that it's something she feels really good at. We also talked about Ashley's difficult first birth and her subsequent prolapse and vaginismus. She continues to use her media presence to talk about such difficult issues as she knows it helps many other women going through similar problems.
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. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.4 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.8 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.2 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello there, how you doing? |
| 0:36.4 | I speak to you from Sunday morning. I am packing today. That is my main thing. I am about to go away for quite a long time, actually. I'm feeling a little bit weird about it, like excited for the work. |
| 0:54.3 | There's some good adventures coming up, but also just a bit freaked out. |
| 0:58.4 | I love being home so much. |
| 0:59.7 | I mean, obviously, everybody loves being home. |
| 1:01.8 | But really, I'm a proper home body. |
| 1:03.5 | So when I've been home this year, I haven't really done very much. |
| 1:07.0 | So if I've had time of home, I'll just be in. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm not really being particularly social. |
| 1:13.0 | I think it's because the work has been so full on for me. So I've been, if I'm home, I'm |
| 1:19.3 | properly home. And I like pottering about and obviously being with the kids and doing bedtimes |
| 1:25.8 | and all that, but also um you know just organizing things in |
| 1:30.3 | the house it's been making me really really happy i've changed a little bit of furniture around |
| 1:35.2 | just made the boys rooms a little bit more cozy and yeah just nothing crazy crazy but just i don't know |
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