Hello, I'm Sophia Lysbexter 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.

Final podcast series. Yes, how are you? I'm feeling pretty buoyant. I'm back in Blighty. It's flipping cold here in London town. Just think two days ago, I was sunning myself in Mexico City and now I'm in, I think it's around one degree Celsius in London. You can probably

hear the rustle of leaves under my feet as I walk home from dropping the kids at school. But you know

what? I'm actually really happy to be in the cold. It's weird. I thought my body would be like

rebelling. But I seem to be quite enjoying it. Is that odd? Yes, I think it is.

Um, yeah, everything's been looking really pretty. Today's a little bit overcast, but yesterday was one of those lovely blue sky cold days, and I love days like that.

And, uh, I don't know how I'm doing with the jet lag really. I only got back day before yesterday.

Yesterday I kind of hit the ground running because I had one space left in the podcast series.

So I recorded it yesterday.

So it was quite good in a way I kind of got up as normal to the kids for school

and then spoke to lovely Anna Williamson.

I'll tell you a bit more about it in a second.

But it's good for my brain, I think, just to kind of do something

because I think otherwise you just feel a bit weird.

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