Episode 44: Helen Thorn

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kat Rulach

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Parenting

4.8 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Helen Thorn is one half of the wonderful comedy duo Scummy Mummies whose stage show and podcast explores all the dirty, grimy, embarassing stuff you never thought was part of being a mum - till you become a mum. She's just written a book called Get Divorced Be Happy, charting the year she split from her ex, which happened to start 3 weeks before lockdown. She told me how difficult it was going through this at the very time we suddenly weren't allowed hugs. But she unexpectedly loves being a single parent to her son and daughter - and is now in fact the happiest she has ever been. By the way, Helen asked if she could swear before we started recording and I said yes - so she does! And she does it well!

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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
0:19.6	years, so I spin a few plates myself.
0:22.4	Being a mother can be the most amazing thing,
0:24.9	but can also be hard to find time for yourself
0:26.9	and your own ambitions.
0:28.4	I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.
0:32.0	Welcome to spinning plates.
0:36.9	Hello, can you hear the birds? Can you hear that? They've kind of gone a bit quiet actually.
0:46.0	I thought that would be a really nice, gentle start to this week's podcast. I'm on an unexpectedly
0:53.3	beautiful walk home. Just drop one of the kids at something and
0:58.3	it's Saturday and it's really gorgeous. It's blue sky and sunshine. The day started dramatically
1:06.5	misty. It's kind of like Victorian England, mistyy and now it's clear to this gorgeous gorgeous day
1:13.5	and I have had very busy week because my book which is called spinning plates because it was
1:23.6	inspired by this podcast hold on people um people. It, uh, yeah, the book came out this week.
1:32.3	That's quite exciting. So it's felt quite different for me. I've actually been to a couple of
1:36.6	book festivals this week. I know. It's quite grown up, isn't it? And I've been talking to people
1:42.7	about what's written inside the pages. And luckily,
1:47.3	people are kind of getting the fact that even though I've written about some, well, I've written
1:52.2	about everything, really, good, bad and ugly. So there's some dark bits in there. But the book
1:57.2	starts and ends with a happy ending and that where I'm back now is good.
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