The One Where I Talk To Writer & Presenter, Bev Turner

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In this week's episode, I talk to writer and presenter, Bev Turner. 

Bev has had a hugely successful career as a writer, author, radio and TV presenter. She is also mum to three kids and girlfriend to her gorgeous boyfriend, James. 

She has her own TV show - Bev Turner Today - on GB News, and has been a regular on ITV’s This Morning and Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine Show as well as many others. Her radio work includes 5 years hosting her own show on LBC, as well as three years co-hosting with Eammon Holmes on BBC Radio 5 Live. She co-hosted her own podcast, As Good As It Gets, for a year with her friend, Marina Fogle, and has guested on Marina’s own podcast, The Parent Hood, and Lorraine Candy and Trish Halpin’s Postcards From Midlife podcast.

Bev is also the author of three books, Touching Distance, The Pits, and The Happy Birth Book. Plus, she has written for multiple publications including The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Mirror and Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Topics that Bev & I cover are:

• How Bev was “born broody” and knew from a very young age that she wanted kids;
• How she bought into the pronatalist view of having children which turned out to be quite different from the realities of motherhood;
• How her ex-husband went off to row the Atlantic Ocean when their first child was very young;
• How married women with children often look at single, childfree women with a ‘sliding doors’ view;
• Bev’s version of a blissful - but rare - Friday evening home alone which allowed her to reconnect with who she is;
• That lack of headspace and the incredible weight of responsibility are the two things Bev finds hardest about being a mum;
• How there is no lonelier place than a bad relationship;
• The story of how her ex-husband, James Cracknell, suffered a severe brain injury whilst cycling across America, and how the impact of the injury had a devastating effect on their marriage;
• The idea that being single does not equate to loneliness, and neither does being married equate to not being lonely;  
• How we should all be aiming to change, because if we’re not changing then we’re not growing;
• How there is no such thing as the perfect family life.

Bev’s website:
https://www.thebevturner.co.uk/