Episode 165: Julie Samuel
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Julia Samuel is a psychotherapist and an author, who is best known as a grief counsellor. She was one of the founders of Child Bereavement UK which has just had its 30th anniversary. She has an agony aunt column for Times Luxury, she has a podcast, and she sees about 15 clients a week, describing that as ‘the heart of me’.
She has 4 grown up children and 10 grandchildren aged 18 months to 18 years.
When I met with Julia, we talked about the guilt she felt as a mum to young children, when she felt her work sometimes became her priority.
Julia also talk to me about an area she feels needs more conversation and exploration, which is the parenting of adult children (aged 18-25) during a phase called ‘emerging adulthood’. I was all ears about that!
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 | it 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. |
| 0:33.8 | Hello, I'm back in London town and I'm excited. |
| 0:38.3 | I had a lovely, lovely tour. |
| 0:41.3 | It was really nice. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm so glad I went. |
| 0:45.3 | It was really successful and very, I feel very heartful after seeing all those people |
| 0:52.3 | that were waiting for me in each country. |
| 0:56.2 | But I was very ready to be back in my own bed and seeing the kids. |
| 1:03.1 | And just having proper family time, I just, yeah, I found it felt like a long two and half weeks. |
| 1:11.1 | And I guess that is quite a long time. |
| 1:12.8 | And even after all these years of doing what I do, |
| 1:16.4 | I think I can still count on one hand the number of trips I've done at that length. |
| 1:22.1 | Last year, I definitely did one of them. |
| 1:25.8 | And then also I've done like Australian trips and that's usually like that. |
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