{"podcast":{"title":"Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor","slug":"spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678","podcast_index_feed_id":301678,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/fba1a06c-5366-4fde-9182-d47aa7f6f9f6","website_url":"http://www.sophieellisbextor.net","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/611e762606c05eb791f4093e/show-cover.jpg","author":"Kat Rulach","episode_count":185,"summary":"Hello I’m Sophie Ellis-Bextor and this is my podcast: Spinning Plates where I speak to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work. I am a singer and have released 8 albums in-between having my 5 sons who are aged between 7 and 22 so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother can be the most amazing thing.. but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. I want to be a little bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Join me while I speak to a host of interesting and inspirational women who’ve really made me think - and laugh, and sometimes cry. Welcome to Spinning Plates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 161: Francesca Amber","slug":"episode-161-francesca-amber","published_at":"2025-09-15T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episode-161-francesca-amber","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678","url":"https://shows.acast.com/spinning-plates/episodes/episode-161-francesca-amber","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/spinning-plates/e/68c70faa86eb67a6f6deb6c5/media.mp3","summary":"Francesca Amber is a successful entrepreneur, podcaster and author who turned her life around using manifesting after everything went wrong for her in 2020. She has 3 daughters. Her eldest is 8 years old, and she has 4 year old twins who are starting school this September.  In lockdown she lost her beauty business and her income and then had her twins as a single mother. She says she had a savage 5 years. But now her new book 'Manifesting Like a Mother' is published the day her twins start school and we mulled over how the timing is on this is so dramatic. We discussed the terminology of 'manifesting' and how Francesca thought I might have manifested the success of Murder on the Dancefloor! We agreed being a martyr as a mum is not a good thing, and Francesca described how she likes to schedule in quality time for herself, and buy herself lovely presents for her birthday and Mother's Day - and I've decided she should definitely treat herself to one of the tassley outfits I wear on stage! Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Francesca Amber is a successful entrepreneur, podcaster and author who turned her life around using manifesting after everything went wrong for her in 20…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4687,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episodes/episode-161-francesca-amber/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episode-161-francesca-amber.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}