Hello, I'm Sophia Lyspexter 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.

Greetings from Adelaide, my loves.

How are you?

I speak to you from a very sunny Adelaide.

It's my first time here.

I've just come here from Perth, which is also my first time there.

I'm on the road.

We take that at the moment.

So I did a gig in Marrakesh, then I flew to Dubai, did a gig there.

Then join Take That here in Australia.

I've got another 10 days with them.

So we've got an Adelaide winery here tomorrow night.

I know.

Exciting.

So that might be pretty fun. And then we fly from here to Melbourne,

then we do Sydney, then Brisbane. That's my next few days. But it's so lovely exploring. And let me tell you, I'm in trouble. I tell you why I'm in trouble. There's loads of good vintage here.

So I'm back at the hotel, slightly unexpectedly. I went out for a walk. I was like, I'm going to go around some vintage shops, went into one, bought a dress and a shirt, and I was like, right, I'm going to now need to drop them off. That's only the first shop. Also, everybody's so nice. And everybody seems to know everybody. When I was in in perth i bought some fridge magnets by a local artist i then came here spotted some stickers by the same artist in the vintage shop i said to the woman oh i just bought some fridge magnets by the artist she went oh that's my friend everybody knows everybody oh that's my perception anyway i I like it. Australia, the village. I'm digging it.

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