Episode 84: Sara Davies
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sara Davies is the warm-hearted, fast-talking, hard-working entrepreneur you will know from Dragons Den. She still lives in the same village in County Durham where she grew up and is married to Simon who she started dating when she was 15. They have two boys: Oliver and Charlie.
We met up at my house a couple of hours after her weekly QVC appearance and we talked about looking in the camera during zoom conversations, being 100% present with whatever you’re doing, her early struggles with breastfeeding, and her Dad’s questioning as to why she is still working so hard now she has a family.
We also talked Strictly! About how she had to learn to let down her guard, and wiggle her bum; how she fitted in her dance training by starting it every day at 6am, much to Aljaz’s horror; and how ‘Uncle Aljaz ’ has become part of the family.
We agreed it’s never good to ask people to when they’re planning to start a family.
And I tried to flog her an idea she’d actually just come up with herself - and I have the proof here on tape, that she told me “I’m in”!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.8 | 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. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, it's a little bit noisy here because I'm at Heathrow, you're just going to have to |
| 0:40.8 | bear with me. I'm recording the intro much. I'm sorry. That's all right. You can talk with you |
| 0:44.6 | no. I'm with my mom. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm just, we are just catching our breath because we nearly missed our flight. |
| 0:55.5 | We're off to Aberdeen for a Burns night event this weekend. |
| 0:59.8 | I was staying in a fancy hotel. |
| 1:01.6 | But we booked flights 11 o'clock. |
| 1:06.9 | We got a tube here and it was a mistake. |
| 1:10.3 | It shouldn't be? No, we had a very long wait at one station and had to run through and push past people. And now, of course, the plane isn't actually boarding yet, even though it should technically be flying in about 10 minutes. So now if anyone sees us that we push past, they're going to think we were just making out. But really, if you let me and my mom go in front of you, thank you. |
| 1:30.3 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, it was very stressful. |
| 1:33.3 | So sorry about the noise, but this is where we're at. |
| 1:37.3 | How are you? |
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