Juliet Davies

A Mug's Life

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A look into people's mug collections & their lives. I ask guests to bring on up to 5 mugs on and we chat through the stories behind each one. This is a leap pad to talk about anything & everything. Episodes are released monthly.

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Juliet Davies

Episodes

S4 Ep2 - ‘Hang it in the Louvre’ An everlasting love of mugs, memories & a famous mug cupboard with Emma Conway 10.06.2026 1:03:40

Trigger Warning: Medical procedure - discussion of Emma's experience with an ablation for Supra Ventricular Tachycardia (SVT) 14.53 - 19.30 I got to chat to potentially the queen of mugs herself, Emma Conway (@brummymummyof2 ) in her lovely kitchen . Emma is well known for her love of mugs; particularly for THE annual Halloween mug switchover in her seasonal mug display cupboard. For now, it...

S4 Ep1 - Tea breaks on Bake Off, why the type of mug matters & being gloriously sober with Briony May Williams 05.05.2026 1:04:23

We’re back with season 4 & I couldn’t be more thrilled to be kicking it off with the wonderful Briony May Williams. A proud Bristolian, it was so lovely to be able to film here in Bristol too. As she came in I was greeted with her homemade lemon drizzle cake which tells you everything about the energy Briony brings with her! You may know Briony from watching The Great British Bake Off series 9...

S3 Ep6 - Building Daughter of a Shepherd, Ringtons tea van visits to your door & an ode to sheep with Rachel Atkinson 16.12.2025 1:05:52

Our final guest of Season 3 is the fantastic Rachel Atkinson, the founder of & actually a Daughter of a Shepherd. I hope you enjoy this warm & festive episode as much as I enjoyed recording it (you can expect quite a lot of laughter! Rachel shares the story behind her wool company Daughter of a Shepherd where she creates limited edition yarns. She focuses on natural colours of British fle...

S3 Ep5 - Leaving a 9-5 to launch a running brand, overcoming doubt & addressing the lack of female-founded brands in sport with Alice Bugeja 05.11.2025 1:05:47

This month’s guest is the wonderful Alice Bugeja (@Aliceroserunner on instagram). Alice is the founder of mileoff, a running wear brand on a mission! To make the best performance wear for women in the world & to dare women to dream bigger. mileoff may well take over the world - and I can’t wait 👟☁️ Alice developed her brand over two years around her 9-5 before taking the leap in March this ye...

S3 Ep4 - A 31 year old mug inspiring an Olympic dream, Wimbledon Royal Box tea & helping young people fly through failing with Chemmy Alcott 07.08.2025 1:02:13

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 ⛷️🗻 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 &am...

S3 Ep3 - Going after what you love, an honest reflection on Instagram success & why Dolly Parton is Queen with Emma Puddick 18.06.2025 1:07:22

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 starte...

S3 Ep2 - Life as an actor & acting teacher, a true love of Superman and an IVF journey to motherhood with Mary Doherty 06.05.2025 1:28:23

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...

S3 Ep1 - ‘Good shoes & a haircut’, creating a ceramics business, collaborating with local Scottish creators & the everyday JOY of mugs with Ella Fletcher 28.03.2025 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...

‘You just need to get off the train’ Tea Talks with Claudia Posada: On comparison, busy minds and finding balance in 2025 14.02.2025 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...

S2 Ep7 - Training as an opera singer, finding her own voice & building confidence in others with Jasmine Faulkner 29.11.2024 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 S...

S2 Ep6 - An Olympic journey, the power of believing in yourself & the importance of trying lots of things with Jazmin Sawyers 01.11.2024 1:03:33

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...

S2 Ep5 - The Great Pottery Throwdown, a teaching journey & a potters pass the parcel with James Stead 27.09.2024 1:11:25

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 potte...

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