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.

So I'm gonna tell you something funny.

I started this year, January, one cat, and as I speak to you under my roof, there are now six

cats.

How did I go from one to six?

Well, let me tell you.

So, beginning of the year, I just had Titus.

Titus is now nine. he's a big boy alpha

when i got titus i had two older cats uh they were called kinicky and rizzo brother and sister i

adored them sadly they died eight both of them aged 17 actually uh they probably died two years ago So for a little while I was happy just to have

one cat. I wasn't really ready to get back into having new cats. I was quite sad about Canicky

and Rizzo. They were lovely cats, especially Kiniki. I was very close to that cat. So this year,

I started thinking maybe it's time to get more in the brood. Richard went away on tour.

That must have been around May and I was suddenly like, yeah, now's the time, gum tree, cats,

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