Hello, I'm Sophia Z-Exter 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 all work.

I'm a singer and I've released eight albums in between having my five sons, age between seven years old and nearly 22, so I spin a few plates myself.

Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions.

I want to be a little bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.

Welcome to spinning plates.

I am so jet-lagged, I don't even know which way's up.

And I just got spent some time crying with laughter because I found an account on Instagram

with people posting awkward family photos. And you know when you're just in the mood for a

giggle. And then I was actually crying with laughter and no one else was finding that funny.

But I think it's actually because I'm incredibly tired.

Greetings from I'm in San Francisco now, my darlings.

I have been up since 4 o'clock this morning, local time. It's now 9 o'clock. I was up with my youngest.

Back home, I've realised he would have woken up. Must have been kind of like 12 o'clock midday.

But for me, in South Australian time, it was like getting up at like 9pm.

I don't know what time it is anymore. I've absolutely lost track. I spent two weeks in Australia and

New Zealand. But even within that time frame, you're moving around different time zones.

So the last place we were in for two days was

perth which is only eight hours ahead of the UK but then I've flown now to san francisco where

I'm eight hours behind the UK and I met the kids so everybody's kind of topsy-turvy but

I'm just getting on with it I uh I came here to do some

singing I've finished that last night now and now we've got half-term week chilling out together

and actually I think it's going to be really cute it's a little bit rainy here but it's nice to be

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