Episode 97: Gemma Bird
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Gemma Bird @moneymumofficial is a hard working mum of two from Essex who after years of working multiple jobs at the same time, managed to pay off her mortgage, and is now a constant source of money-saving tips and ideas on instagram, and a regular on Lorraine's Saver Squad. She's a fast-talking, determined and positive person, who is also very open about her struggles with anxiety and depression, and I really valued her honesty when we met.
I went to visit Gemma at her home in Essex earlier this year, and she told me how her mum had set her on the saving road from a very young age, often making £20 last the whole of half term by finding free things for the family to do.
Gemma published her first book 'Money Mum Official: Save Yourself Happy' last year, and she shared with me her ideas of how issues around money and debt could be taught at school - even as young as primary age.
Gemma and her husband Adam have two children, Brody and Bronte, who they adore. We talked about the pressures we feel as parents and how to say no to them sometimes. It transpired we were both being pressured into buying the overpriced fashionable drink 'Prime' at the time of our chat!
But on a serious note, for anyone who would like to talk to someone about money problems or getting into debt, Gemma recommends 'Step Change' stepchange.org and the National Debt Helpline' nationaldebtline.org
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 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 years, so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.4 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:25.1 | it 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. |
| 0:35.6 | Happy album release day to me. Happy album release day to me. |
| 0:39.1 | Happy album release day to me. |
| 0:42.4 | My seventh album, which is called Hannah, |
| 0:45.2 | finally got released today. |
| 0:49.4 | Lovely, wasn't that? |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, I am speaking to you from Friday the 2nd of June and finally my seventh album is out in the world. |
| 0:59.4 | I say finally because I've never been a super speedy person with album turnarounds, |
| 1:04.4 | but even for me, this is pretty spectacular. |
| 1:07.2 | Started writing it January 2020. |
| 1:15.6 | Should have been so straightforward, but it wasn't but it ended up being a different album because of what was going on in the world and I'm grateful for having made it |
| 1:19.9 | it's been lovely and I'm just really excited to put it out there finally and have all these new |
| 1:24.7 | songs to play with and yeah I'm feeling pretty good I'm feeling a little bit, not frazzled. That's the wrong word. I actually feel quite chilled today. But I do feel a bit like, ooh, because the last little while has been so busy. And I hate it when people say they're busy. I find it quite annoying. Like, normally if I'm feeling busy, I don't say I'm busy. |
| 1:48.8 | I say, oh, I'm spread a bit thin at the moment because basically, you know, sometimes when I'm doing a lot, I just feel like I can't quite keep up with myself and I make silly mistakes. |
| 1:52.6 | But I have to say, it has been quite a hectic. It's just quite hard to kind of take in each |
| 1:57.6 | individual moment sometimes. You know, this time two weeks ago I was flying |
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