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.

Morning.

Well, it is where I'm standing. It's Tuesday morning and for one of a better word,

the day is murky. The sky is a kind of purply, like a bruise, bluey purple. I think it might

pour with rain in a bit. But all as well just dropped the

smallest two off at school and yeah everything's fine really. I got a mixed bag this

week today Richard and I off to do a DJ gig actually it's not tonight in wales

we've got to get ourselves there first bit of singing of the year which i think i've done quite well

i've had like a proper break my voice is totally repaired i um i realized last year i was croaky

for like the last six months of the year. And at one point, forgive me

if I'm repeating myself, at one point I did go and see a voice doctor. He had a little with

a camera. It's a little bit of swelling, but luckily nothing too serious. But in about June,

I had laryngitis and I pretty much lost my voice.

But like an absolute buffoon, I still did my gigs.

So I used whatever oil was in the tank at the time.

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