Episode 37: Sylvia Mac
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Sylvia Mac is a campaigner, a survivor and an award winner. Sylvia was two when she suffered horrific burns, in a scalding accident, and was given the last rites. Against the odds, she survived but it wasn't till her 40s that she learned to accept her scars and not to feel ashamed of them. Her three children have been on a difficult journey with her but there is love everywhere in her life and she says it's never too late to start believing you're beautiful. She won the Wellness Warrior award in 2020 and founded Love Disfigure to offer support to those living with burns and scarring.
Trigger warning: this podcast mentions a burning accident and suicidal thoughts.
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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. |
| 0:22.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.6 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.6 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.6 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey my loves, this is Risky. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm recording this for you in their play park. |
| 0:41.3 | That's right. You heard me correctly. |
| 0:44.3 | I've gone rogue. I'm doing this out and about. |
| 0:48.3 | There's other parents around, the kids. |
| 0:51.3 | Trains, dogs, big puddles, anything could happen. |
| 0:55.5 | And I thought, that was the time to talk to you. |
| 0:59.1 | Anyway, how have you been? |
| 1:00.6 | Hope you've had a good week. |
| 1:02.5 | What's been going on around here? |
| 1:03.7 | I've had quite a varied week, actually. |
| 1:06.1 | It's involved me getting so drenched in the torrential downpour that happened in London on Monday |
| 1:15.3 | that I went to a parent's evening that they decided to hold outdoors in, and we're not talking |
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