Episode 73: Angel Strawbridge
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Angel Strawbridge is the glamorous businesswoman with the amazing red hair who fronts Escape to the Château, now in its 9th series! - which charts her and her husband buying, renovating and decorating a chateau - all while bringing up two little children.
I spoke to her on zoom, which made me feel rather jealous, as she sat looking out at the view of their very own moat in the sunshine, while I sat through a thunderstorm in London!
We talked about how she’s very dyslexic but loves a spreadsheet; how she works 20 hours a day to get the best of both her working life and her family life, and about how she persuaded her mum and dad to retire to France to live near them, when they first bought their chateau. She also introduced me to the concept of 'guilt presies'.
As you will hear, Angel has an infectious enthusiasm for getting stuck into things. Talking to her made me want to come up with a huge new project and just get stuck in, however outlandish it may be. Warning: she may have the same effect on you.
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis Bextor, it is produced by Claire Jones and post-production is by Richard Jones
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lysbexter 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. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.4 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.1 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.6 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.1 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey, I'm outside on this really beautiful morning. |
| 0:42.0 | It's Sunday morning and the sun is shining and you might even be able to hear birds |
| 0:46.0 | tweeting. It's pretty gorgeous out here actually. Blue sky. You can tell it's September. |
| 0:52.2 | There's a little undercurrent of chill in the air, |
| 0:55.3 | but actually it's still really nice. |
| 0:57.4 | And I've had to come outside because I've got extra kids this weekend. |
| 1:02.7 | So obviously my five and then a couple of them have got sleepovers. |
| 1:07.0 | So I've got an extra teen and an extra 10-year-old year old in the house so just finished making so many |
| 1:14.8 | pancakes but that was quite good because our old nanny claire came to visit us on who was it |
| 1:22.5 | Wednesday night and she brought all the way from Skegness 60 eggs. |
| 1:28.3 | So they had omelette for supper on Friday and did them doing pancakes and I'm going to do Yorkshire pudding with them tomorrow. |
| 1:34.3 | And I don't know. Keep going with egg ideas. |
| 1:37.3 | Please post your egg suggestions for me in the comments. |
| 1:41.3 | Don't really. |
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