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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!! ⛷️

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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:

1. The start of Emma Puddick Pottery - purple leopard print mug
2. Dolly Parton mug by Jake Ford Ceramics
3. A photo mug of Emma & friends in Schitt’s Creek fancy dress
4. Keith Brymer Jones mug - made during lockdown from his studio
5. 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

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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:

1. Tring Park School for the Performing Arts 50th anniversary mug
2. ‘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
3. Superman mug - press night gift from husband Chris (one of many superman themed gifts 🦸🏻‍♂️)
4. Come From Away The Musical mug
5. Emma Bridgewater Mummy mug

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 💫

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