Episode 76: Marawa Ibrahim
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
I first saw Marawa perform as part of a circus show about 15 years ago. I was mesmerised by her hula hooping and roller skating simultaneously to disco music, and I've been following Marawa on Instagram for years now. Her posts are always fun and uplifting. They are usually of her rollerskating in the sunshine at her home in LA in high-heeled roller skates. She is also a hula hooper extraordinaire. As well as performing all over the world she has broken multiple skate and hoop world records - including spinning 200 hula hoops simultaneously - and is now in the Guinness World Record Hall of Fame. Marawa got pregnant at the beginning of lockdown and enjoyed the accidental privacy that gave her, only posting films of her roller skating with a bump, after her son was born. Now a toddler, her little boy is fascinated by Marawa's roller skates and she recently got his mini Timberland boots made into skates! Marawa has also written a book called The Girl Guide. It's aimed at pre-teen girls, to help them navigate body image, periods, spots and moods - it's kind of fun and serious all the same time - a mix that Marawa carries off beautifully.
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 |
| 0:09.6 | busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.3 | 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. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:33.6 | Well, hello, it is a beautiful sunny Sunday. I'm walking back from the river. I had a coffee |
| 0:42.4 | with my mum and I'm walking alongside Jesse, who's doing some Pokemon going, I think. Is that |
| 0:49.2 | what you refer to us? It's called Pokemon Go. It's like a game where you catch |
| 0:52.9 | and if you want to move in the game, they have to move in the real life. Great. Well, it's keeping us walking. And it's quite funny, actually, because Jesse just had it where there was a Pokemon, he had to catch. And it was outside a house that had a blue plaque. So that's what we were looking for and to the uh it's always noisy |
| 1:12.3 | when i do this to the untrained eye it looked like i had a child that was fascinated with blue plaques |
| 1:17.2 | because i went here we are jesse we've reached the blue plaque of the humanist and humorist and reformist |
| 1:24.7 | mp whatever his name is, and Jesse went, yes! |
| 1:28.4 | But really it's because that's where Pokemon was. |
| 1:30.8 | So if you ever see a family and you think, oh, they're very cultured, |
| 1:34.2 | they might just be catching Pokemon. |
| 1:37.7 | Yes. |
| 1:39.2 | Sunny Sunday, going home to her roast beef. |
| 1:42.2 | My family's fine. |
| 1:43.6 | Well done. That's great fine. Oh, well done. |
| 1:44.4 | That's great. |
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