Episode 161: Francesca Amber
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Francesca Amber is a successful entrepreneur, podcaster and author who turned her life around using manifesting after everything went wrong for her in 2020.
She has 3 daughters. Her eldest is 8 years old, and she has 4 year old twins who are starting school this September.
In lockdown she lost her beauty business and her income and then had her twins as a single mother. She says she had a savage 5 years. But now her new book 'Manifesting Like a Mother' is published the day her twins start school and we mulled over how the timing is on this is so dramatic. We discussed the terminology of 'manifesting' and how Francesca thought I might have manifested the success of Murder on the Dancefloor!
We agreed being a martyr as a mum is not a good thing, and Francesca described how she likes to schedule in quality time for herself, and buy herself lovely presents for her birthday and Mother's Day - and I've decided she should definitely treat herself to one of the tassley outfits I wear on stage!
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, |
| 0:24.6 | 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. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, greetings from Houston. I'm back here. I think this is my second or third time this week. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm just trying to think, because I'm in the middle of supporting, promoting, promoting the release of my eighth album, |
| 0:51.2 | Harry Menopopopop. And it's been a lovely week week actually, super, super busy. I cannot believe. |
| 0:58.1 | It was just this time last week I was doing Radio 2 in the park in Chelmsford. Since then, |
| 1:03.0 | I feel like I have been all over. Yes, today I'm going to Birmingham and Nantwich for signing. |
| 1:10.4 | And tomorrow I've got BBC breakfast and tomorrow night Brighton and the beat goes on kind of to the end of the week. So it's all good. I said to everybody around me, you know, my management, my label. I was like, look, make me busy. It's a big deal. I haven't released an album like this for, |
| 1:30.7 | well, I haven't released an album full stop for three years. So, you know, it's always kind of a big |
| 1:35.7 | deal. And it's nice to give yourself over to it. And also, I've been meeting so many people. |
| 1:40.0 | It's been adorable. Thanks to all of you that came to Cocoa Monday. Any of the signings I've been doing to launch the album, |
| 1:47.3 | any of the little gigs I've been doing the record shops. |
| 1:49.8 | It's been so nice to see you all. |
| 1:51.1 | It's been good for my soul. |
| 1:52.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:54.3 | And yes, if I sound a little tired, |
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