Episode 167: Lavina Mehta
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Lavina Mehta MBE is a health campaigner, a personal trainer, and an author. She came to my notice during Covid when she started doing weekly exercises on YouTube with her mother-in-law.
She’s just published her book The Feel Good Fix which is designed to improve your health during menopause, and presents her idea of exercise snacking - incorporating short bursts of activity into your normal day rather than maybe going to the gym for an hour.
We talked about her religion of Jainism which is about non-harm, karma and non-violence and how she still presents an exercise class online with her mum-in-law every Friday now.
When we finished our sit-down interview, Lavina encouraged me to do some wall press-ups, and left me with her slogan ringing in my ears: ‘Sanity, not vanity!’
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 Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.2 | 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. |
| 0:32.9 | Good day from LA. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm speaking to you from, yeah, West Hollywood. Richard and I flew here on Friday |
| 0:41.3 | to get acclimatized before I start my US tour, which is tomorrow. I've got my gig in LA |
| 0:47.6 | tomorrow night, which is exciting. You can probably hear the smile in my voice. It's like, it still |
| 0:53.7 | blows my mind a little bit too honest |
| 0:55.0 | that I've got dates in America because, as I'm sure I've banged on about before, |
| 0:59.3 | I'd never done anything here last year. |
| 1:01.4 | It's the first time I'd even done so much as a radio interview. |
| 1:05.2 | So how wild to be coming for a third run of dates. |
| 1:09.6 | So we've got L.A. on Monday, San Francisco on Tuesday, |
| 1:13.0 | Vancouver on Wednesday. |
| 1:15.4 | Is that right? |
| 1:17.4 | I think so. |
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