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. It 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.

Good day to you. I am speaking to you from Friday morning. The sun is shining and the sky is blue.

And when I dropped the two primary kids off this morning, they were doing this thing where it's

like health and well-being week, I think they call it. And they're doing something called the

Wakey Shaky. So they played really loud pop music and all the kids were jumping about.

I was thinking, I could happily start my days like that every day.

Like a bit of music in the morning.

And actually I tried it, didn't I?

I think I told you about that.

Playing last year's second-placed Eurovision entry,

cha-cha-cha-cha. Very loud in the mornings.

It doesn't really, it doesn't get that wakey, shaky, happy vibe

that I might have hoped for.

Anyway, today, actually this week,

so I've had kind of like a mixed week.

On one hand, it's been really chilled.

I haven't been songwriting every single day. I've done two sessions. I'm back to do my third. And that's been quite nice. I had a couple of days where I wasn't writing. And I think I needed that, so I'm just crossing a road. But, you know, when you imagine you're going to get lots of things done in these little gaps, and then actually you don't really have so many gaps.

That's kind of been my week. You know, when you imagine you're going to get lots of things done in these little gaps, and then actually you don't really have so many gaps.

That's kind of been my week.

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