Sarah Beeny on resilience, reinvention, and building a life you love
White Wine Question Time
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is a woman who has spent over two decades guiding the nation through the highs and lows of homeownership, but her expertise goes far beyond bricks and mortar. She’s a property developer, entrepreneur, broadcaster, writer, and now a podcaster — it's the brilliant Sarah Beeny!
In this episode, Sarah takes us through the pivotal moments of her extraordinary life. From losing her mother at just ten years old to buying her first flat at 19 and turning it into a thriving property empire, she reflects on the resilience and determination that has shaped her path. She also dives into some of the most ambitious projects she’s taken on along the way — most notably choosing to raise her four young boys in her first major renovation project, a crumbling 93-room Georgian mansion, and more recently, making the bold decision to sell everything in London and start a fresh new chapter on a farm in Somerset.
Beyond her career, Sarah opens up about the lessons she’s learned from motherhood and why she believes the only way through life’s toughest challenges is to keep moving forward. She also shares insights from her brand new podcast, Seriously, where she and her sons tackle life’s big, and often hilarious, questions.
You can watch Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country on Channel 4 and catch Seriously wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:10.0 | I was looking at properties from the age of 16, 17 in London. |
| 0:14.5 | I used to go into estate agent to say, yeah, I'd like to look around a house. |
| 0:19.5 | And so I'd look around, you think, like half million pounds, |
| 0:22.3 | kind of unmodernised, like, blocks of flats. |
| 0:25.8 | And I'd just, I'd go in boldest brass. |
| 0:28.4 | Yeah, no, I've got the money. |
| 0:30.0 | I hadn't got any money at two or us. |
| 0:31.5 | Just look at them. |
| 0:33.2 | I wouldn't change it because my fear would be, |
| 0:37.4 | I wouldn't have met Graham necessarily, and I wouldn't change it because my fear would be I wouldn't have met Graham necessarily |
| 0:39.6 | and I wouldn't have my children and would I hand them back or they might I might not have any |
| 0:44.2 | or I don't know you can't you know you can't change a thing no I wouldn't change anything nothing |
| 0:50.0 | because because I wouldn't be here and so I'm really grateful to my mother |
| 0:55.6 | for the time I had her, |
| 0:56.7 | and I'm grateful that she died in a way. |
| 0:59.6 | That sounds weird. |
| 1:00.7 | Because if she hadn't died, |
| 1:01.7 | they wouldn't have done all the research that they did, |
| 1:03.6 | which meant I survived breast cancer. |
| 1:05.2 | So, you know. |
| 1:07.6 | You know, I often think we're in control of our own edit of our lives, aren't we? |
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