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 my darlings, how are you? How are you finding everything at the moment? Trying to think what's been going on around here.

Sort of more of the same from last week, really. I've still been doing promotion for the album. I've done a couple of TV performances, which is quite fun. It's been nice to be back in a studio, and I even got to see my band yesterday.

We did a performance for a TV thing that's going to go out in America, and it was quite funny.

They'd made a set where they had like a little big Ben and we sort of like, it's London guys, kind of stuff for the Americans.

And we did a performance at the discotheque where all my band wore animal masks,

the same ones that Richard and I used for the kitchen discos.

We did here with the kids.

So I don't know, Kieran on Keys was a horse.

We had my brother playing drums.

Jack was a pigeon.

Richard was a shark.

Pablo was a poodle on guitar.

But what's quite weird is when I got home, I was showing my kids the original video, music video for crying at the discotheque by Alcazar.

And guess what they're wearing in the video? They're wearing animal masks, including the same

horsehead mask. The weirdest thing of all is that I hadn't seen the whole video and the reason I had the animal masks including the same horse head mask the weirdest thing of all is that i hadn't seen the

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