Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to

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, hello, how are you? It is me and it is you. I just rhymed you twice. That's lazy, lazy songwriting. It was spontaneous. That's my excuse. How are you? Where do we find ourselves? We're in July, the end of July. So summer holidays, your kids all broken up

if you have kids. Mine are all broken up now, of course, yes. And I'm sure I've bored you

with us already, but it's quite a big year for the Jones boys. As my youngest will be starting

reception in September. My 11-year-old will be starting reception in September my 11 year old will be

starting secondary school my 14 year old will be starting GCSEs and my 19 year old is starting

a foundation at art school so some nice stuff but just yeah quite a lot of newness, newness creeping in.

So a little bit of, you know, trepidation, brave new world.

But we're excited, I think, yes, we are excited.

And life has been pretty good.

I've been very busy, up in loads of festivals, as usual.

It's been a really lovely summer already, actually.

And I've been travelling around a little bit.

And actually this weekend coming, which will be in the past now that you're hearing it,

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