Episode 153: Salima Saxton
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Salima Saxton is a writer, an actor and a coach, and she co-presents the podcast ‘Women are Mad’.
She has 3 children aged 9, 12 and 15 and she recently caught my attention with her amazing Moth story about a Valentine’s Day announcement by her husband which changed her life. It’s 5 minutes of supreme story telling; you must listen!
Salima and I talked about how she grew up with an alcoholic Dad and was always trying to be a ‘good girl’. Now she embraces a messy, crazy family life and says it’s vital to show up as yourself.
Early in our chat we also confessed that we are both ‘secret control freak’ mums, but let’s not concentrate on that! I love Salima's idea of connecting with your 8 year old self and maybe doing some of the things that SHE used to love doing. Now, where are my rollerskates...?
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 | 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 |
| 0:19.6 | years, 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 and your own ambitions. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm making pancakes. It's Saturday morning. What are you up to? It's quite early. Oh no, you know what? It's not now. It's about 8 o'clock. It was early when I got up. Well, actually, I don't know. Every weekday, when the alarm goes off for me to get up my secondary school kids, it normally wakes up my |
| 0:55.5 | six-year-old. But then at the weekend, he'll wake up before that alarm goes off. It's sort of like |
| 1:03.1 | a trick. I want to have a bit of a lion, please. It's not possible. Anyway, I'm making his |
| 1:08.7 | pancakes. It's a beautiful morning and I'm feeling so excited |
| 1:14.9 | because yesterday I was finally able to talk about what my album's called and I'm calling it |
| 1:22.6 | Perimenop and I just have wanted to talk about it for so long because it's such a like, that's the word, sorry, that's the cupboard. |
| 1:44.8 | It's such an anchor, like a pin of what the whole album is about. And so not being able to talk about it up until now, I've got a bit strange in the way, or at least a bit like, I just want to tell you what I got for my birthday, that of a feeling. So I got a new single out called Taste, |
| 1:48.4 | which is literally one of my favorite songs I did for the album because it was one of those ones where I brought it home from the studio |
| 1:50.6 | and then I kept playing it and bopping around. |
| 1:53.5 | It makes me happy. |
| 1:55.1 | The two lovely people, Emineke and John Shave. |
| 1:58.6 | And yeah, so that's just come out. |
| 2:00.5 | And that sort of provided a soundtrack to this album, pre-order launch thing. |
| 2:07.6 | And Perryman and a Pop, I want to thank you guys because the podcast, I think, has actually |
| 2:14.4 | been such a massive part of why I wanted to call the album what I have. |
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