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, welcome, welcome to another episode of Spinning Plates.

Happy Halloween.

Did you do anything spooky?

We decided to have a Halloween kitchen disco around here, which was pretty fun.

Got the old box of Halloween stuff out of the attic.

One of the few things where you pull it out of the attic and if it's got cobwebs on, you just sort of leave them on. It makes it a little more spooky.

And actually it was really fun just thinking about Halloween and being a bit out of yourself for a

minute and thinking about scary songs that have got good memories. I've been thinking so much this year about how nostalgia has played such a big part when it comes to what I'm listening to. I've sort of been going back and listening to stuff I like when I was a kid and things that got happy memories. And I think it's because this year, if you hear new music, it's hard to make new memories, you know? Like if you've got, like, I don't know, let's say a sound of a summer, it'll remind you of festivals you went to that summer, or a really brilliant party, or a day out with mates, or, you know, clubbing in your summer holidays, or something. But this year, new music just has the soundtrack, is the soundtrack to exactly the same thing we've been doing for months

now and I think that's why we'd all been looking backwards and thinking but that song reminds me of

that time in my life and that's better so yes with Halloween you know I've had some brilliant times

going to Halloween parties and singing these spooky songs so that's been really fun and uh podcast guest this week is someone wow i finally found

somebody with more kids than me it's funny i don't know if you've noticed probably not it's

probably me only noticing this kind of thing that everybody i spoke to uh has had sort of one

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