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 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 their old friend. How are you? Oh my word. Has it really been, I don't know, how long has it been? Five weeks since I last spoke to you. I hope you're good. How's life been? I am speaking to you from Singapore, actually. I'm in my hotel room. I just filmed a TikTok. I'm telling you that because it's quite out of character for me. Normally, TikTok is my kids thing, and I normally do it with them if we do it at all. I don't mean they're in it. I mean, I've been, like, sometimes they'll grab my phone and they'll ask me a silly question that I don't know what they're going to ask me. And that's normally the sort of TikToks I put up. So doing a kind of like singing at the phone one is quite good fun. But I also feel a bit like, ooh, who am I? Who is this woman? Anyway, I am on the 20th floor of a hotel, which is why I do TikTok, because I've

done a song called Vertigo, and I thought, well, I actually do feel a bit of indigenous when I look

over that balcony. I have been prepping for the tour. I have four weeks to go until the tour starts.

This is my biggest UK and Ireland tour that I've ever done actually

in my career. So that's pretty cool. But also a bit like, oh, got to get it right. If you're

coming along, it's going to be really cool actually. And I say that not to big myself up,

but because I have such a brilliant team around me. I feel really good about it. I've got

lots of shiny new toys,

as in just everything's looking really good. It's all kind of coming together. There's lots of

hard work going on. Yeah, you know the score. If you come along, my aim is to transport us a bit

just so we can shake off the stress of whatever's going on it's going to be nice

and what else started picking out some new music for the albums this song vertigo yeah that's just come

out and a song called relentless love which i adore i love them both and actually it's a funny world

because when i first started making albums you'd put out a single and work that single to the lead up to release.

Now it's all different.

So I had a first single from this album called Freedom of the Night last year.

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