Episode 173: Dr Eliza Filby

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kat Rulach

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Parenting

4.8 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dr Eliza Filby is a writer, a generational historian and mum to two children aged 8 and 5.

I loved her book ‘Inheritocracy. It’s time to Talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad’ which came out in paperback last year which contains some fascinating stuff about money and the generations of today.

We talked about how children often rely on a financial springboard from their parents these days, and how that dependency can make the relationship rarther complicated going forward.

We acknowledged that the linear path we were sold in the ‘90s and Noughties - of education, university, buying a house, and then retiring - is now a lie.

We also talked about the sandwich generation - people who are looking after their children and their parents at the same time.

I shared with Dr Eliza that I once asked one of my sons if he would look after me when I get old. He replied: “Yes. But only for a day or two.”

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 Zbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it all work.
0:14.4	I'm a singer and I've released eight albums in between having my five sons, age between seven years old and nearly 22,
0:21.6	so I spin a few plates myself.
0:23.6	Being a mother can be the most amazing thing,
0:26.6	but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions.
0:30.6	I want to be a little bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.
0:34.6	Welcome to spinning plates.
0:40.6	Hey, this is risky and I have to be quick.
0:46.4	I'm in a playground. I've got two of my children here. I'm visiting my sister and my baby niece.
0:50.6	I found one tiny pocket at the playground where there aren't too many parents in here because I just feel like a bit of a wally when I'm speaking to myself.
0:57.0	So yeah, I'm going to tell you about today's podcast.
0:59.7	And then maybe in outro, I have time for a little bit more chat.
1:03.1	Dr. Eliza Filby is my guest this week.
1:05.2	Our chat was fascinating.
1:08.0	Eliza really knows our stuff.
1:13.0	And to be honest with you, I felt like our conversation just scratched the surface of things that I think we could have spoken about in far more detail for longer.
1:16.0	But hey, we have an hour together.
1:18.3	Let's go.
1:19.3	So I started following what Eliza was up to when I heard about her book in Heritocracy,
1:26.5	The Bank of Mom and Dad.
1:27.7	Because I was really intrigued. First of all, I was like, what does that actually mean?
1:31.7	Dr. Eliza Filby is a generational historian. She has two children. They are five and eight.
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