Hello, I'm Sophia Lyspexter 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 to you. How you doing? I'm speaking to you on, oh, what is it? Friday afternoon.

Golly, the week's gone quick. Blimey. And I've still got the last little bits of a beautiful,

oh, it's a really beautiful sunny day, actually,

that lovely golden light. And the weather has been teasing us. It goes from heat wave to

proper autumn chill in a day, it feels like. So this morning it was all kind of cold when we left

to school and the kids wanted their coats and I'd

put them in shorts and it wasn't really short's weather but now it's actually really quite warm

so hopefully they've forgiven me by now and I think we're kind of getting into our September

stride a little bit although I have to say I feel pretty exhausted I don't know. My secondary school kids, well, particularly my 11-year-old,

when he comes home, he's always got quite a lot of homework now, and I have to sit and do it with him.

And I just don't think I'm a very good teacher. In fact, I think I'm a bad teacher. And he's very sweet because he always

wants to understand the answers, which obviously is like the right thing to do, but I'm a bit like,

let's just get this done. The answer's this. And obviously, that's the wrong attitude. I do know

that's the wrong attitude. So I'm trying to actively like slow myself down, explain stuff,

get him to do the solutions and work it out.

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