Episode 75: Sarah Beeny
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
TV presenter and entrepreneur Sarah Beeny feels like the calm, confident, sensible friend we all could turn to when we’re having a wobble. She'd be logical and straightforward and sort us out. Perhaps she feels like this because she’s been on TV for a couple of decades now, guiding people through property projects and helping them to avoid disasters, pulling no punches along the way.
Sarah talked to me from her home in Somerset about life in the country with her husband and four boys, and about her philosophy of making decisions and then not regretting them. She also talked about losing her mum when she was ten, and the effect that had on her and her brother.
Finally we talked about Sarah’s recent breast cancer diagnosis and how she got her sons to cut her hair when it started to fall out. She is very grateful that her personal prognosis is good, and describes this as a blip! You won’t be surprised to hear that Sarah has a lot of post-blip plans - including a festival at her home in Somerset next year - I've already asked her to book me!
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 Lyspexter 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. |
| 0:14.1 | 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. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:25.0 | and also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.3 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.3 | Good day to you. I am in my kitchen at home. Just doing a very exciting job. I'm emptying the dishwasher. It's funny, isn't it, when you've got dishwasher, that even those things become mature, like empty and loading it, even though definitely quicker than washing up. Mickey is currently watching YouTube kids, honey Mickey. |
| 0:56.6 | And showing me... |
| 0:57.7 | Oh, okay, cool. |
| 0:59.2 | And showing me which mash are the bear toys he would like. |
| 1:02.1 | Why are you calling on? |
| 1:03.5 | I'm talking to the people listening to my podcast. |
| 1:06.6 | The people, the person, listening to my podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm not saying there's only one of you, |
| 1:11.6 | but chances are you're not listening to it in a group. |
| 1:15.7 | It'd be quite weird that if after all this time there was just literally one. |
| 1:19.3 | Mommy! Yes, Mickey. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah, you are. |
| 1:24.3 | And we have been doing some Lego this morning. |
| 1:29.7 | It's been nice. |
| 1:30.9 | Richard's away, so it's just me. |
| 1:32.3 | It's been away a week. |
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