Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast A Mug's Life
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| S3 Ep4 - A 31 year old mug inspiring an Olympic dream, Wimbledon Royal Box tea & helping young people fly through failing with Chemmy Alcott | 07 Aug 2025 | 01:02:13 | |
This month’s guest is the amazing Chemmy Alcott. Chemmy is a 4 x Winter Olympian, presenter (Ski Sunday, Olympics) & speaker who is always seeking her next adventure or challenge ⛷️🗻 Available on all platforms now to listen (Spotify/Apple podcasts) or watch (Spotify/YouTube) We always love to hear what you think so please let us know ☕️💗 https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S3 Ep3 - Going after what you love, an honest reflection on Instagram success & why Dolly Parton is Queen with Emma Puddick | 18 Jun 2025 | 01:07:22 | |
This month’s guest is the brilliant @emmapuddickpottery. Emma creates colourful creations inspired by pop culture, tattoo iconography & vintage styles. She’s also a top 0.0001% worldwide** Dolly Parton fan (**unverified 😂) Emma runs her own ceramics business, centred around monthly shop drops! These often sell out in minutes so you have to be quick ⏰ Her following & success really started to grow in 2022. At this time, the art director of The Great Pottery Throwdown spotted her mugs & the judges used them on the show in deliberation section when they decide who’s potter of the week & who’s going home For those who’ve followed A Mug’s Life for a while you may have seen Emma’s mugs as they’re in many of my posts & stories. Her weather mugs are my personal mug favourites & also my most complimented mugs ☀️⛅️⚡️☔️. Her designs are simply incredible & so creative! Here are the mugs talked about, if you’d like to follow along and see:
Some of her quick fire favourites! ☕️ Tea: Yorkshire tea Biscuit Brew 🍪 & Whittards Dreamtime ☕️ Coffee: Wogan coffee roastery 📺 Hacks & Sort your life out with Stacey Solomon 🎙️Blindboy podcast & Dolly Parton’s America 📚 Thursday Murder Club, The Avocado Hotel, The Satsuma Complex Available on all platforms now to listen (Spotify/Apple podcasts) or watch (Spotify/YouTube). Also linked in my bio 💫 We always love to hear what you think so please let us know ☕️💗 https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S3 Ep2 - Life as an actor & acting teacher, a true love of Superman and an IVF journey to motherhood with Mary Doherty | 06 May 2025 | 01:28:23 | |
This month’s guest is my wonderful teacher, mentor & friend - Mary Doherty (the best 🥹) and it means a lot to have her on the pod Mary played Bonnie in the original West End cast of Come From Away and as part of that run, they won Best New Musical at the 2019 Olivier Awards She’s also performed in musicals including Les Miserables, Avenue Q, Grease, Our House & Merry Wives (alongside Dame Judi Dench) Mary has toured with the RSC & performed at the Globe, with her favourite role being Queen Margaret in the Henry VI trilogy In 2012, she saw a space to help young actors on their journey to becoming professional actors & started the @theactorsclass which gets unanimous praise (having attended myself, all of it is deserved and much more - Mary creates an environment like no other 🪄✨) Personally there have been challenges, with a difficult journey to motherhood but ending in an IVF miracle. Mary is a proud Mum of Annie! Here are the mugs talked about, if you’d like to follow along and see:
Some of Mary's quick fire favourites! ☕️ Peppermint tea 🎬 Ordinary People 📺 Shrinking 🎙️Mel Robbins 🏝️ Holiday - Maldives (been) & Thailand (wants to visit) 🎭 Bull - Mike Bartlett 🎭🎶 West Side Story TW// Discussion about infertility & miscarriage Available on all platforms now to listen (Spotify/Apple podcasts) or watch (Spotify/YouTube). Also linked in my bio 💫 We always love to hear what you think so please let us know ☕️💗 https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S3 Ep1 - ‘Good shoes & a haircut’, creating a ceramics business, collaborating with local Scottish creators & the everyday JOY of mugs with Ella Fletcher | 28 Mar 2025 | 00:50:34 | |
We’re back with S3 and I’m delighted to welcome our first guest: Ella has her own ceramics business based just outside Edinburgh @Ellafletcherdesigns. Her mission is ‘bringing joy to the everyday with colourful, handmade ceramics’ and she embodies this in what she creates 🌷💐🎨 ⏰Her new website where you’ll be able to buy a whole range of products will be launching Friday 25th April ‼️ That joy & feeling when you choose a favourite mug from the cupboard. I’ve been a fan of her work for a while and it was such a pleasure to chat in Edinburgh 🪄 We cover all the key questions: Ella’s perfect brew, why the colour of the inside of the mug is so important & the art of mug handles ☕️ We also chat about getting inspiration from the Scottish landscape, travel & collaborations with female-owned local Scottish businesses as well as a new contract this year with the National Trust for Scotland 🏴 Here are the mugs talked about, if you’d like to follow along and see: 1. The first mug Ella ever made (taught by Chris Donnelly) 2. The first mug Ella made by herself (THE ORIGINAL) 3. By Jodie, MADE & MATTER CERAMICS, WALES (Made_and_matter ceramics) 4. Bought in Ithaca, Greece from the maker at a gallery (Reminders of a 4 week Greek Island family trip last Summer 5. Laura Grainger F*ck the Tories mug Collaborations & partnerships with local Scottish businesses: 💡Amanda Wells Lighting 🕯️Luna Candles 🕯️Tyninghame Candles 💗 It’s Good to Give charity - supporting young Cancer patients & their families in Scotland Quick fire favourites! 📚The Bee Sting - Paul Murray 🐝 📺 Big Boys, Day of the Jackal, Hacks 🎧 Self Esteem 🗺️Greece & Scottish Highlands 🎙️My therapist ghosted me & The rest is entertainment ✨Will it make the boat go faster? Ben Hunt-Davis Available on all platforms now to listen (Spotify/Apple podcasts) or watch (Spotify/YouTube). Also linked in my bio 💫 We always love to hear what you think so please let us know ☕️💗 Edited by Megan Tuck Audio https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| ‘You just need to get off the train’ Tea Talks with Claudia Posada: On comparison, busy minds and finding balance in 2025 | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:58:23 | |
It’s Valentine’s Day and what a good reminder it is to be kind to yourself, not put yourself under too much pressure and most importantly to have fun! 🪩💌 Today we’re back with another chatty New Year’s episode with a twist as before recording Claudia & I spent the afternoon with card & magazines to put together mood boards for our 2025 intentions & beyond We talk through our mood boards and why we were drawn to the things we chose. We discuss it all from finding calm, being more present, to not packing your schedule too full so you can find joy in the spontaneity of deciding what do to do on the day (like seeing it’s snowing and buying sledges 🛷 ❄️) We’ve also moved to full video episodes so you can watch on YouTube & Spotify 📺 🥳 Video editing for the first time with a new software was an experience 😁 so bear with this first episode! If you do watch it, spot my Valentine’s themed socks 💗 (which were entirely unintentional as we didn’t know when the episode was going out!) We would love to hear about your 2025 intentions! 🎉 Available on all platforms now to listen or watch! Chapters 00:00 Intro Claudia - Book - Absolutely & Forever (Rose Tremain) Juliet - TV show - Blue Lights - BBC iPlayer https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S2 Ep7 - Training as an opera singer, finding her own voice & building confidence in others with Jasmine Faulkner | 29 Nov 2024 | 00:41:22 | |
It’s the final episode of season 2 and I am delighted to have my friend Jasmine Faulkner as a guest 🥹I’ve known Jasmine since primary school, and I’m so very proud of everything she does and the person she is. She’s a soprano singer who fuses classical, cinematic & electronic sounds, having performed at some of the biggest venues/events including: Mens & Women’s FA Cup finals at Wembley Stadium, London Fashion Week for Annie’s Ibiza, Windsor Castle for Royalty & Houses of Parliament. She has campaigned for the rights of women in Iran & is someone who lifts up & supports everyone up around her. I am so lucky to have her as my friend. You’re in for a treat! For the first time I’ve also added a blooper reel at the end of the episode so I hope you enjoy that too 😂 Here are the mugs talked about, if you’d like to follow along and see: 1. Pink clear mug - ‘a really studious’ mug 2. ‘It takes a big heart to shape a little mind’ mug - gift from a students’ parent 3. See you later alligator mug @oliverbonas - a gift when she left her 9-5 job Other things mentioned: ☕️ ‘Big hand huggy cosy’ @emmapuddickpottery weather mug ☕️ @teapigs - peppermint tea ☕️ Gummy bear tea ☕️ @yogitea - messages ☕️ @birdandblendtea - Baby spice 💃 @ecstaticdance.uk UK We always love to hear what you think so please let us know and follow/leave a comment or a review if you enjoy 💗 https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S2 Ep6 - An Olympic journey, the power of believing in yourself & the importance of trying lots of things with Jazmin Sawyers | 01 Nov 2024 | 01:03:33 | |
This month’s guest is the incredible Jazmin Sawyers. She’s a European gold medallist 🥇& 2 x Olympian but also does so many other things! It was a JOY to have her as a guest We talk about everything from her accidentally becoming a dinosaur mug influencer, some very special mugs from friends, how much family & friends support means in sport to how having multiple interests helped her when her journey to the Paris Olympics ended when she ruptured her achilles in April It’s not everyday you get to sit down & chat all about tea, coffee and mugs with someone that has inspired you with their mindset & journey 🥹 She’s also a mug enthusiast & collector, so tricky choices were made about which mugs to bring on. A most wonderful selection of mugs from those wrapped in nostalgic memories, to unexpected collaborations & handmade treasures:
Other things mentioned: ☕️ ⏰ Joy Resolve - Barisieur tea & coffee alarm clock Available on Spotify, Apple & Amazon We always love to hear what you think so please let us know and leave a review if you like 💫 https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S2 Ep5 - The Great Pottery Throwdown, a teaching journey & a potters pass the parcel with James Stead | 27 Sep 2024 | 01:11:25 | |
For more context on some of the things discussed from @potterythrow , you can watch all the series on @channel4 , and James also has some reels on a few of his creations It was so great to chat all about the pottery world, and to get a completely different perspective into mugs & the intricacies of how they’re made Every item talked about is quite astonishing in its craft so I’d highly recommend following along with the pictures as you listen for the full experience: 1. Ray Gridley large blue mug 2. @richmillerpots wood-fired orange mug 3. Drip down mug (slip trailing) - pottery circle swap at Potfest 4. A gift from @roynon_ceramics - red and white Voronoi mug 5. @danielboyleceramics black & blue salt-fired mug 6. Bonus item ✨ @clarewakefieldceramics bowl Other things mentioned: ☕️ @potfest.co.uk ☕️ International ceramics festival - Aberystwyth ✨Takeshi Yasuda 🎙️ For Flux Sake 🎙️ @pottymouth_pottery_podcast 🪴 Baslow Pottery near Bakewell, Derbyshire (Ray Gridley’s pottery) 🪴 @whichfordpottery ☕️ @whittardofchelsea1886 Available on Spotify, Apple & Amazon https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| Tea Talks with Katie: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour | 12 Jul 2024 | 00:39:20 | |
| S2 Ep3 - A British love affair, celebrity crushes & Picklebar with Holly Donahue | 07 Jun 2024 | 00:44:05 | |
This month’s guest is my brilliant friend @hollygoblighty. She grew up in the 🇺🇸 but has always had a great love for all things 🇬🇧 - the accent, the royals & Hugh Grant before moving to the UK. She also is a future entrepreneur with her Pickleball idea 🎾 We had a lot of fun in this episode! Here are the mugs talked about, if you’d like to follow along and see: 1. British flag mug 2. Claridges mug - gift from her friend, one each also given to her Mum & Aunt 3. Wimbledon mug 4. Copenhagen mug 5. Blank mug - representing the future 6. Sasspot cat mug Other things mentioned/pictured: 🎾 Our recent tennis camp in sunny Portugal 🇬🇧 Holly’s citizenship ceremony ☀️ The wonderful @thehappyhuts in Norfolk (Wells-next-the-sea) ☀️ https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S2 Ep2 - A near death experience, an expedition to the heart of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current & just saying yes with Amelia Pearson | 26 Apr 2024 | 01:02:00 | |
| S2 Ep1 - Cold water swimming, seasickness in the channel & puppy love with Lowri Ffion Jones | 15 Mar 2024 | 00:58:05 | |
| New Year, New Me? Tea Talks with Claudia: The Pandemic 'Skip', overwhelm and bringing self-compassion into 2024 | 12 Jan 2024 | 01:05:05 | |
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| S1 Ep10 - The Irish language, the Barry's vs Lyons tea debate & mackerel stuffed smoked salmon at Christmas with Edel O'Keeffe | 15 Dec 2023 | 00:59:05 | |
| S1 Ep9 - Friendship, fear of failure & a very special teapot with Evi Tucker | 10 Nov 2023 | 00:57:35 | |
| S1 Ep8 - The earl lovers, a kidney transplant & finding a community in sport with Flora King | 13 Oct 2023 | 01:13:32 | |
TW// Detailed discussion about kidney biopsies & transplant https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S1 Ep7 Tea Talks with Immy: TV Edition (Succession, The Bear, Beef & other favourites) | 15 Sep 2023 | 01:07:54 | |
The first of the Tea Talks series, where we chat about a topic with a mug in hand every couple of months Immy is a big television & film fan and has had a huge influence on what I’ve been watching so who better to sit down with to chat about some of our favourite shows. We wanted to talk about television, films, plays, exhibitions & books but after 2hrs filming only got us as far as TV & film, we thought we would save that for another episode 😂 We talked about the following shows & topics, and please note that there are mild spoilers in the episode. Pretty major ones for Succession (skip to approx 22m to avoid these):
I hope you enjoy this different style, and let me know any other topics you’d like us to discuss in Tea Talks in the future ☕️ Available on Spotify, Apple, Amazon & Google podcasts https://www.instagram.com/amugslifepod/profilecard/?igsh=N2I3d3BpbWF0czRr | |||
| S1 Ep6 - Aligning purpose, sustainability & 2000s nostalgia with Olivia Brooks | 11 Aug 2023 | 00:40:16 | |
| S1 Ep5 - Identity, doing things alone & grief with Claudia Posada | 07 Jul 2023 | 01:08:50 | |
| S1 Ep4 - Family traditions, collecting & Christmas with Penny Davies | 09 Jun 2023 | 00:27:11 | |
| S1 Ep3 - Childhood, rituals & algae with Katie G | 05 May 2023 | 00:42:31 | |
| S1 Ep2 - Very expensive coffee, cat poo & tasting notes with Nico Ward | 10 Apr 2023 | 00:33:21 | |
| S1 Ep1 - Relationships, road trips & recovery with Isobel Green | 09 Mar 2023 | 00:32:24 | |
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