Episode 154: Rachel Kelly
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Kelly is a writer of many books about mental health and wellbeing and has recently published ‘The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less’. She is a mum of five grown up children.
Rachel and I talked about the teenage brain and how it’s wired for novelty, connection with peers, and altruism. We discussed how we could be more sympathetic to what teenagers are going through.
She also had some timely tips on exam stress, which we could definitely do with in our house at the moment.
Rachel told me about her own struggles with anxiety and depression, including being hospitalised and feeling suicidal, and she talked about how your teenager can come through difficult times feeling stronger, wiser and more amazing.
She also said: don’t give advice unless it’s asked for. Now that is something I’ve definitely got to work on!
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. |
| 0:22.1 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.6 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.1 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, don't judge me, but I'm waiting to pick up some food at McDonald's. |
| 0:40.3 | I don't know how this happened. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm in Westfield. |
| 0:44.2 | I got ground down by my very enthusiastic, smallest two, well actually specifically my fourth, |
| 0:49.8 | Jesse, the nine-year-old. |
| 0:51.7 | He wanted to come to Westfield and I didn't realize that on a Sunday, most things don't |
| 0:55.6 | open until 12 and we got her 11. |
| 0:58.4 | So they're killing the time by ordering some food and McDonald's was one of the only |
| 1:02.4 | one's open. |
| 1:03.4 | And I'm exhausted, so I made bad decisions sometimes and I'm tired. |
| 1:10.5 | Anyway, how are you guys? |
| 1:14.9 | I've had such a wild week. |
| 1:17.9 | My job has always been pretty funny and diverse. |
| 1:21.9 | But this week I've done everything from cover shoot, |
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