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.

Hey there, how's you? Have you been? How's this week been for you? I hope it's been all

all right. What's been going on around here? Not too much really. We're just now on half-term.

Last week, the kids were still at school except for Kit, who was at home because his school broke up a bit earlier

than the others. So he was kind of living the charmed life because I was still trying to work.

So he was basically sort of dividing his time between the internet and meal times, which is pretty

perfect. I think he seemed really happy with that. I've been doing little bits and bobs of work because I've got an album coming out soon.

So that's been quite nice.

Although I think whenever I've had a promotional opportunity, I've been dressing up that little bit too much.

Just because I'm so overexcited to actually put on something sparkly and put some makeup on and some heels and head out of the house. In fact the other day I did a

gig. That's pretty crazy, isn't it? And I really loved it. I sang to actual people with actual faces.

It was great. That was at G-A-Y. Anyway, enough about me. You don't want to hear about me. Thank you so much

for the response for my podcast guest last

week, Nadia Hussain. I'm so glad you liked her and our chat. And I thought, well, I've set the bar

very high. I must continue to this level. So this week, I am talking to Louise Rednapp,

who is somebody I've met a few times over the years.

We used to run into each other at various bits and bobs.

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