Episode 152: Karni Arieli
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Karni Arieli is a photographer. Her lockdown project Eye Mama @eyemamaproject asked photographer mums all over the world to share honest pictures of their own experiences of motherhood. She has just had it published as a book. She also makes short films, commercials and music videos and has recently had a BAFTA nomination for a film about the life of a salmon, played by a woman and narrated by Marianne Faithfull.
Karni and I talked about how showing our children our weakensses is important and she shared how her first experience of motherhood was extremely tough as she had a herniated disc and couldn't walk or lift her baby for the first 8 months of his life.
Karni also shared her life motto that she's passed on to her children: 'Do it like you mean it'. And she described her love of 'awe walks' with her children, which I am defintiely going to practise on the walk to school from now on!
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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 Lyspexter 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. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 |
| 0:19.6 | years, so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing. |
| 0:24.8 | It 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. |
| 0:34.5 | Hey, I'm not sure if this is an introduction or a cry for help. |
| 0:38.3 | We currently have eight, eight extra 12 to 13 year old boys in the house. |
| 0:45.3 | It's my third boys 13th and they all seem pretty chipper, but it's quite hard to control |
| 0:53.3 | a large group of 12 to 13 year old boys because |
| 0:56.1 | they all kind of move on mass and, uh, I don't know, I feel like I've maybe bitten off more |
| 1:01.0 | than I can chew, but I'm in it now. She's in it now, guys. Anyway, they're all happy. They're |
| 1:06.0 | all eating some pizza. And how are you? Uh, good to be chatting to you again, back with the pods, |
| 1:12.6 | second episodes into this new series. |
| 1:15.6 | And I've actually been super efficient, maybe, if that's the right word, |
| 1:21.6 | because I've recorded nearly the entire series already. |
| 1:25.6 | And I don't know why I'm boasting to you. I want to give the idea that maybe that's what I'm like every time. But it's not. Sometimes I get all in a tiz. And this time I've been organised because I go on tour in two weeks. And I know that once I'm on the road, I won't be able to do so much. So I've got so many gorgeous conversations for you. Not least, my guest |
| 1:46.4 | this week, Karni Ariely. Now Kani, again, someone I'd never met until she came to the house |
| 1:52.5 | and thank you so much to her for coming. I was interesting speaking to her because her lockdown |
| 1:58.3 | project, I'm Mama, which is spelled EYE-E-Mama, caught my eye, figuratively, literally, on the internet. |
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