Episode 39: Laura Brand

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kat Rulach

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Parenting

4.8 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Laura Brand is a mother of two little girls and author of the book The Joy Journal. We spoke about where you find joy after motherhood and how expectation and reality can sometimes (always?) be very different beasts but you have to be able to roll with it - especially when you have a young family. She now runs online tutorials to show people ideas for craft and fun with the children in their life and this month has been doing them inspired by Peter Rabbit. She struggled with Hyperemesis Gravidarum with both her pregnancies which caused her to end up in hospital and has made her very sympathetic to anyone going through the same thing. We also spoke about what happens when you get back together with someone you used to date, as happened with her now husband Russell Brand, and how it can work out for the best.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter 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 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 years, so I spin a few plates myself.
0:22.6	Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself
0:26.6	and your own ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.
0:31.6	Welcome to spinning plates. Hello, Podcats. It's me. How are you? I'm sat here with Jesse. Do you want to say hi, Jesse?
0:46.6	Hi. Do you know what I'm doing?
0:50.0	No.
0:51.1	I'm recording the introduction to my podcast.
0:57.9	Do you know what I do a podcast about?
1:07.4	No. No. You're not really the demographic. It's basically other working mums. And this week, I spoke to Laura Brand, who released a book after she had our first of her two little girls called The Joy Journal, which is all kind of lovely ideas of simple things you can do with your small people to keep them entertained, keep you feeling the right side of things.
1:27.6	I guess it's a little bit of mindfulness, a bit of crafting, a bit of play, a bit of imagination,
1:33.7	bit of ideas for creativity.
1:37.2	But also it got me thinking a lot about joy and the importance of that, because I think about that word a lot.
1:42.8	And especially over the last 16 months
1:45.5	it's a word I've used tons and tons because joy is something that sort of elevates you
1:50.9	in quite a lighthearted, resonant way. It's not quite the same as happiness, I don't think,
1:59.2	joy. It's a slightly more, got a little bit more
2:01.4	lightness of touch, really. And for me, joy has been the thing I have always thought out,
2:08.4	even if it's in a very small form, just to give my brain a place to go. So for me, joy might be,
2:16.0	I don't know, the reaction I get when I stare at the sequence as
2:19.1	they catch the light, or playing on the trampoline for a minute, or making something, or
2:25.6	dancing a way to a song I love, or doing my Lego, or deciding that actually tonight's going to be
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