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, Spinning Plate Podcasts. How are you doing? Have you been having a good week? What's been happening around here? It's been a mixture of things, really. I know we've entered into a second lockdown phase here in the UK, but it doesn't feel quite the same as the first one

mainly because the kids are at school so I'm sort of getting through bits and bobs of the day

although I've still got a ton of things I meant to sort out I don't know weeks ago I'm sitting

as I speak to you in the room that is actually where my littleest one, Mickey,

sleeps, but it's also my dressing room and the poor kid. It's a good job. He's not able to

articulate how he feels about being surrounded by piles of shoes, clothes, various items and

accessories, or else he'd just be saying, mum, please, it's a little bit over-stimulating in here.

But then maybe it's quite nice to be surrounded by feathers,

chiffon, bright colours, sequins.

Don't worry, I do make sure he sleeps in the dark,

so he's not kind of being dazzled by my sequin garments

as he tries to sleep.

This week I spoke to someone,

I'm going to be very, very honest with you. I'd never met Gina Miller before. I knew of her after she took Parliament to court over initiating Brexit unconstitutionally. But I was a bit intimidated, actually.

And when I first sent off my email, I just found the contact for her on when I sort of did

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