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, how are you doing this week?

What we've been up to around here?

It's actually been quite a busy week for me.

I've had an album out. I've done an album that's basically a greatest hits album

that's called Songs in the Kitchen Disco,

which has been inspired by this year

and the Kitchen Disco as we ended up doing our house.

And it's really made me think a lot about actually loads of things.

I think primarily it's made me think about how crazy is that I started the year back in January

thinking my year was going to be one shape and then end up another, like everybody else.

But I think there's also something about seeing the

physical embodiment of something that came into creation solely because of what happened this year

has made me really think i think you know maybe for everybody there was a bit back in march april where i felt

like you know we were on hold for a bit but then life would continue and then you sort of realize

actually the significance of everything being put on pause is would continue and then you sort of realise actually the significance

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