Hoovering - Episode 116: Poorna Bell
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
In this episode I’m talking to the incredible author and weightlifter Poorna Bell, the mastermind behind the wonderful @seemystrong instragram sensation and of forthcoming book ‘stronger’. She’s been on my hit list for a while and we had a lovely chat from our respective homes whilst scoffing choccy biscuits and coffee.
Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.
Honourable Mentions
Follow Poorna’s amazing instragram page SEEMYSTRONG and that’s where you’ll hear how to pre-order her incredible book that’s out early next year called ‘Stronger’.
My live stuff is obviously all on hold but I’m in two series on telly at the moment, THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE on ITV Hub and TRIGONOMETRY on the BBC iplayer. Also I’m part of the writing team between a new series called SUSAN CALMAN: SOCIALLY DISTANT on BB Iplayer for everyone and BBC Scotland for the Scottish Land.
If you have any spare dollar in your life the first thing I’d like you to do with it is give it to either a food bank like the TRUSSELL TRUST.
If after giving to them you’ve still got more spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podcast not just alive, but also thriving. Thanks so so so much if you’ve become a patron recently and/ or stuck with me since the beginning of this.
The only Belgian chocolate biscuits I can find at the moment on the M&S WEBSITE are these.
My milk chocolate butter biscuits from LIDL were a fierce and perfect knock off version of CHOCO LEIBNIZ
She mentions the military operation that is GYMBOX
She talks also about the fascinating and clever food critic JAY RAYNER
And this I believe is RIBERO DEL DUERDO the Spanish wine that’s her favourite of all.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as anything |
| 0:25.6 | else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 0:33.5 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering. |
| 0:46.6 | Hey, Smashes. This week I'm talking to the brilliant Pornabell, the brains and the brawn behind the incredible C-My Strong Instagram phenomenon. |
| 0:55.5 | And also, she's the author of a forthcoming book called Stronger, and she's a fellow lady who lifts. |
| 1:01.7 | I have no live work to plug at the moment, obviously, but I'm doing the odd online gig here and there for |
| 1:06.4 | brilliant clubs who've temporarily gone online, like Excess Malararkey and always be comedy so you can look out |
| 1:11.9 | for them if you like and more importantly every Monday night at 9 o'clock I'm doing an Instagram live |
| 1:16.9 | where a liquid hoovering with a former hoovering guest follow the podcast on Instagram at the |
| 1:22.5 | hoovering pod and even better tune in at 9 o'clock every Monday night if you can't then the chat |
| 1:27.4 | stays up in the stories until I think 8 o'clock on the Tuesday, the next day. |
| 1:31.9 | And thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 1:34.3 | Thanks even more if you like it and you tell other people about it. |
| 1:37.0 | Please may you tell other people about it and rate review and subscribe. |
| 1:41.5 | If you've got any spare money at the moment during these weird, tricky old times, I reckon, give it to a food bank, mate. |
| 1:49.0 | The Trussle Trust do great work and it's a brilliant place to know you're donating your money to some people who'll be keeping people fed, reliably. |
| 2:02.2 | If you've got even more money, |
| 2:03.9 | then you can support the podcast. |
| 2:05.4 | I'm on Patreon. |
| 2:06.5 | Go to Patreon, p-at-r-e-on.com, |
| 2:09.6 | forward-slash the Hoovering Pod. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jessica Fostekew, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jessica Fostekew and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

