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.

Woohoo! Hello! We are back, series two of Spilling Plates podcast. This is exciting. Well, this is lovely, yeah. I've been having a nice time in the last five or six weeks or so since the last episode was published interviewing lots of lovely women, having lovely conversations. A lot of them them your suggestions. So thank you if you put a

comment for me with a suggestion of who to speak to you. Thank you very much. I followed up on loads of

them. So hopefully this series you'll see some names of people that you're hoping to listen to.

And how have you been? How have the last five weeks or so been treating you? I hope you're feeling okay. Hope you're keeping upbeat. It's, you know, it's still very tough time out there. There are reasons to be cheerful, but, you know, it's, I feel a little bit like when you're a kid and you're trying to run really fast and then someone puts their hand on your forehead so you're sort of running on the spot. There's been a little bit of that going on.

But, you know, I am lucky there's, you know, lots of projects and things to look forward to.

And I'm sure like you, I just really thrive on momentum.

It turns out this year I've learned that massively.

I'm really trying not to ask the question about whether you've been spending time with other podcasts since we last saw each other. Because if I do ask you if you've been seeing other podcasts, I know that then I'm going to want to ask the name of those podcasts and how frequently you're spending time with them and that kind of thing. I just don't think it's healthy. I think we should focus on the positive. We're reunited. And if you tell me I'm your favourite,

I'll believe you. I will. I'm a sucker for it. Thank you for coming back to me. Thank you for

tuning in. Today's guest, you want to hear about that. Lovely, lovely chat I had with Nadia

Hussain. I wanted to speak to her. She's on my list for ages because um you know she's she's

always intrigued me she's she's clearly so warm and and likable but she's also got this kind

of stillness in her and patience and bucket loads of wisdom she's become a spokesperson for

anxiety and speaks very candidly about her own

anxiety, struggles to bond with her baby when she had her first baby. But also lovely things like

her family life, how she fell in love with her husband that came through a, she met through

at a range marriage, how she has her Muslim faith on her own terms,

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