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A Mug's Life

Juliet Davies

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Frequency: 1 episode/40d. Total Eps: 23

A look into people's mug collections, and the meaning a cup of tea/coffee has for us. The premise is that guests bring on 3-5 mugs on and it's a catalyst for broader conversation. Episodes are released monthly and there will also be special Tea Talks episodes about other topics enjoyed with a mug in hand

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Leisure
31/10/2025
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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

Season 3 · Episode 4

Thursday, August 7, 2025 • Duration 01:02:13

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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 ⛷️🗻

Chemmy takes us behind the scenes of a Winter Olympics, talks about how proud she is of her skiing injuries as a reminder of going all out 100%, how having the courage to try regardless of results fuelled her & is what she passes on in coaching and with schools, as well as the story behind her real name. Also why if lost in a supermarket, she may be found browsing the tea aisles admiring the packaging ☕️

The sheer determination & love during her career for the sport & in what she does shines through ✨

Here are the mugs talked about. If you’d like to follow along and see, you can see pictures of all the mugs on @amugslifepod instagram:

1. Chemmy’s Christening mug
2. Lillehammer Winter Olympics 1994 mug
3. Argentinian Mate mug
4. Powderhound snowsports mug released ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics

Some of her quick fire favourites!

🏝️Desert Island picks - Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Madonna, Mother Teresa, Alberto Tomba, Mum
🍪☕️ Pairings - hobnob or digestive with tea, rocky road with coffee
☕️ Coffee Shop - The Coffee Pot, Thames Ditton
🏅Olympic sport if Chemmy had been in the Summer Olympics - tennis/padel🎾
☕️🍫 Best skiing hot chocolate - one with Grand Marnier/rum
📺 Favourite TV show - Ski Sunday of course!! ⛷️

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 ☕️💗

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S3 Ep3 - Going after what you love, an honest reflection on Instagram success & why Dolly Parton is Queen with Emma Puddick

Season 3 · Episode 3

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 • Duration 01:07:22

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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:

The start of Emma Puddick Pottery - purple leopard print mug
Dolly Parton mug by Jake Ford Ceramics
A photo mug of Emma & friends in Schitt’s Creek fancy dress
Keith Brymer Jones mug - made during lockdown from his studio
Adam Frew ceramics porcelain mug

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 💫

S3 Ep2 - Life as an actor & acting teacher, a true love of Superman and an IVF journey to motherhood with Mary Doherty

Season 3 · Episode 2

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 • Duration 01:28:23

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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:

Tring Park School for the Performing Arts 50th anniversary mug
‘The best holiday of my life’ family collage mug made by her nephew of her family holiday in the Algarve, Portugal for her Dad’s birthday
Superman mug - press night gift from husband Chris (one of many superman themed gifts 🦸🏻‍♂️)
Come From Away The Musical mug
Emma Bridgewater Mummy mug

Some of Mary's quick fire favourites!

☕️ Peppermint tea

🎬 Ordinary People

📺 Shrinking

🎙️Mel Robbins

S3 Ep1 - ‘Good shoes & a haircut’, creating a ceramics business, collaborating with local Scottish creators & the everyday JOY of mugs with Ella Fletcher

Season 3 · Episode 1

Friday, March 28, 2025 • Duration 50:34

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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

‘You just need to get off the train’ Tea Talks with Claudia Posada: On comparison, busy minds and finding balance in 2025

Friday, February 14, 2025 • Duration 58:23

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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
00:57 Setting up our 2025 moodboard intentions
02:04 Sharing our moodboards
05:34 Finding calm & being present
11:07 Plans, balance & prioritisation
17:57 Relationships & prioritisation
22:48 Allowing yourself moments of calm
32:16 Bringing play & joyfulness into life - have fun!
36:37 Comparison & letting go
41:07 The abundance of choice/information overload
43:16 What we're looking forward to this year
49:15 Our words of the year
54:00 Conclusion & Recommendations (TV series/book)

Claudia - Book - Absolutely & Forever (Rose Tremain)

S2 Ep7 - Training as an opera singer, finding her own voice & building confidence in others with Jasmine Faulkner

Season 2 · Episode 7

Friday, November 29, 2024 • Duration 41:22

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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 💗

S2 Ep6 - An Olympic journey, the power of believing in yourself & the importance of trying lots of things with Jazmin Sawyers

Season 2 · Episode 6

Friday, November 1, 2024 • Duration 01:03:33

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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:

3D Dinosaur mug - Llandudno Pier (North Wales family holidays)
Istanbul European Indoor Championships 2023 mug (Gold medal and 7m (!) jump)
Handmade mug made by & gifted by Dina Asher-Smith
JCB teacup & saucer - gift from Ben Williams

Other things mentioned:

☕️ ⏰ Joy Resolve - Barisieur tea & coffee alarm clock
☕️ AeroPress coffee maker
☕️ Assembly coffee
☕️Celestial Seasonings - Bengal Spice tea
☕️Yorkshire tea biscuit brew
📚Gold Rush - Olivia Petter
📺 The OA
🎙️ Happier with Gretchen Rubin

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 💫

S2 Ep5 - The Great Pottery Throwdown, a teaching journey & a potters pass the parcel with James Stead

Season 2 · Episode 5

Friday, September 27, 2024 • Duration 01:11:25

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This month’s guest is the brilliant @james_stead_ceramics 🎨 James is a ceramics teacher (who taught me at school!), a potter and more recently a finalist on series 6 of @potterythrow 🏺

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

Tea Talks with Katie: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour

Friday, July 12, 2024 • Duration 39:20

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S2 Ep3 - A British love affair, celebrity crushes & Picklebar with Holly Donahue

Season 2 · Episode 3

Friday, June 7, 2024 • Duration 44:05

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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) ☀️

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