Episode 159: Ro Fielden-Cook
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ro Fielden-Cook is a woman with a heck of a life story.
She has 3 sons: twins Alfie and Charlie (aged 15) and Freddie (aged 7).
She is the founder of a wellbeing and fitness community ‘The SHE Collective’ which has a holistic approach to giving busy women more life, more confidence and more energy.
She had her twins as a single mother as she left University. One of the twins, Alfie, was diagnosed with a life-limiting condition called SMA when he was still a baby. Her story of fighting for her son’s health and then falling in love is jaw-dropper.
Ro talks about her wonderful rock of a mum, and also about losing her incredible-sounding dad when she was a teenager.
Ro’s positive spirit is inspiring and I guarantee you’ll be using her dad’s motto ‘Onwards and upwards’ when you’ve finished listening.
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. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.8 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.3 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey there. |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, a train said hello too. |
| 0:38.3 | If you're in London, like me, |
| 0:42.3 | Blimey it's hot or experience a heat wave. |
| 0:46.3 | It's quite funny because I had work in South of France this week |
| 0:50.3 | but are nice and took an extra day |
| 0:53.3 | because Richard and I brought our 16 year old kit with us. |
| 0:59.0 | And so we took an extra day just to have some time with him and celebrate finishing GCSEs. |
| 1:04.0 | And it was the same temperature there, so it felt quite weird to get on the plane in Nice. |
| 1:09.0 | It's boiling. Fly home, get off the plane. |
| 1:12.6 | It's exactly the same temperature back in London. |
| 1:15.0 | Crazy. |
| 1:17.0 | So I'm walking through the park at the moment. |
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