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.

Hello, greetings from San Diego. I've just got here. We landed, what time is it now?

About an hour ago, come straight to the venue. It's really nice. It looks lovely. We have started the American tour. So as promised, here I am speaking to you from America.

I know I sound a little bit quirky, but I'm so much better than I was, so don't worry.

And yeah, morale is very good.

I'm so proud and impressed by my band and my crew

because we landed in San Francisco the day before yesterday

and we did our first gig last night, which means we had no real opportunity to acclimatize.

So we went on stage at the equivalent of half-five in the morning UK time.

But obviously having been up since like, you know, 5 a.m. local, so anyway, basically

the long and short of those were absolutely deranged. But I got on stage and the energy I got

from the crowd was so good that it really buoyed me up. And it made made me really happy and I had a really good time.

I probably seemed even more sort of bonkers, eccentric, British woman than usual.

It's a role I inhabit quite regularly anyway, but I think I was giving some, oh, sorry, I nearly got my phone.

I think I was giving some very odd energy because I was just all over the place with my, myself.

But, yeah, I felt really good. I enjoyed myself. It was a good gig. Life is good.

And yeah, so gig two today. Here we are. I'm just planning what to do, really. We're not here very long. We're only here, really, for an afternoon and a night. And obviously, doing a show. And then we leave tomorrow morning to drive to L.A. where we've got a festival, but we're on quite early. So we have to leave here. I don't know. I think we're leaving about 10 or something. But, sorry, that probably sounded horrible. I just drop something. I'm unpacking my stuff, you see, as I speak to you. I don't know if you're impressed with this kind of thing, but I've travelled hand luggage only for this trip. I know. So I've got, like, for my costumes on stage, I have, I always do a costume change.

So I've got the opportunity to change, I've got like four, four options for the first look, four

options for the second look, and then

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