Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work.

I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, so I spin a few plates myself.

Being a mother can be the most amazing thing,

but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions.

I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.

Welcome to spinning plates.

Hello, oh my goodness, it's the final podcast.

Not ever, but this is the last episode of the first series of Spinning Plates.

It's kind of flown by.

How crazy is that?

I suppose when you do something weekly, it becomes a little marker.

Oh, that's funny.

That reminded me, like the kitchen

discos that we did during lockdown were like that. You kind of go, oh, it's Friday again. And now I've got

this lovely podcast thing going on, and it's like, oh, it's Monday again. Let's put another one.

And listen, thank you so much for joining me on this new adventure. I've loved doing this podcast,

you know. It's been so, something I've been very selfish about. I've just been interviewing

and talking to really lovely women. And it's encouraged me to be a bit bolder about approaching

people I don't know already, which, you know, I'm fundamentally fairly shy, to be honest with you.

So initially, sending out little emails to people saying, would you like to talk to me was,

I was just cringing the whole way through it, but everybody's been so nice, and I've been so

fascinated by everybody I was speaking to, and I've learnt so much that it's really, it's maybe

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