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 it 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 to you you're looking

lovely today how are you you're right I do pretty upbeat. It's because I've got this beautiful sunshine that's coming in through the window. It's Sunday afternoon. And it's gorgeous out there. I'm going to take the kids out in a minute. It's a really sparkling day. I love autumn days like this. That sunshine is actually

really gorgeous. It's actually pretty hot. It's going to force me to go outside, which is a good

thing. I spent all of yesterday indoors. I've had a very lazy weekend following about two weeks

of quite intense promotion for my new album, which is called Songs from the Kitchen Disco. So it's a thing close to my heart as it was inspired by the kitchen discos that we had around here. I must confess, it's a mixed bag doing promotion when you're basically at home all the time, because on the one hand, it's much more convenient, but on the other it stops the things you're doing having that much space. So you end up cramming that in amongst

still trying to get on with stuff at home. So yeah, I think I found it pretty tiring, but I'm also

very relieved because the album did well. And I could feel my shoulders drop a couple of inches on

Friday when we finally had a chart position and everybody who's been part of the release was relaxed and happy and celebrating rather than asking me to do more stuff.

That's good.

And big thanks to my management, Derek and Sabira, who've worked really hard because it's actually quite a small operation that gets behind me when I put albums out because I've been bringing them out of my own label for the last

oh I think it's four releases now that's exciting um I've just realized though while I'm thanking my

management that the chances of Derek hearing that thank you are teeny tiny I do not think Derek has

listened to any of my podcast that's fine he's probably not my target demographic, you know,

talking about raising young family and being someone who feels like you've got a lot on the go

with family and work as his children are quite grown up really, but also, I don't know,

maybe I'm underestimating him. Maybe Derek has been a keen listener and he's just kept it quiet.

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