Steve Backshall: ‘it’s a terrible time to be a parent’
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, Giovanna is joined by adventurer and explorer Steve Backshall
Steve and Gi catch up on family life as he reflects on his childhood and how it shaped the person he is today.
He also opens up about his wife Helen's inspiring journey training for the Tokyo Olympics just months after giving birth, and of course, there are plenty of tales from his iconic adventures along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mom, Happy Baby, The Podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | Today's guest is the incredible Steve Baxhaw, MBE. |
| 0:16.8 | Let me tell you, I feel like I always have to, when they've got those by after their name, |
| 0:20.6 | I feel like I've really got to put them in because they've been earned. |
| 0:23.6 | Steve is absolutely incredible. For anyone who doesn't know, he's a naturalist, an explorer, |
| 0:29.1 | an adventurer, he's a writer. He is best known for presenting CBBC's Deadly 60 and The Really Wild Show. |
| 0:40.3 | I say this to Steve in the actual episode, but all these years I've been doing this podcast, I've been doing it for nine years. My kids |
| 0:45.1 | couldn't give two hoots when I get home or before an episode recording and I say, oh, guess who I'm |
| 0:49.4 | talking to today? They're like, who? But last night at dinner, at dinner I said, guess who I'm talking to you tomorrow? |
| 0:56.5 | And Buddy was rolling around the floor, and even he stopped and was like, what? |
| 1:01.1 | What? |
| 1:01.9 | But he will be upset tonight when I go home and tell him that no snake was present |
| 1:06.5 | because he really did think that Steve was about to whip out a snake. |
| 1:10.5 | Different show. |
| 1:15.0 | But Steve, you'll hear it. |
| 1:17.0 | He is an absolute delight of a human. |
| 1:20.6 | He just has this curiosity and this enthusiasm that is real and there |
| 1:26.1 | and wants to explore and wants to see what and why and he talks |
| 1:30.6 | about his wife Helen Helen Glover obi in the most ah honestly it's the most gorgeous thing |
| 1:38.8 | it's the most gorgeous way I think I've ever heard a husband talk about his wife it made me want |
| 1:43.3 | to phone up Helen straight away and go, oh my God, you never guess what |
| 1:46.1 | he said about you. |
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