Hello, I'm Sophia Sbexter 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, aged 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.

Hello, I am walking quite fast through a fairly cold Californian rain. We brought the kids to meet us in San Francisco because I had a bit of singing to do here at the beginning of the week and unfortunately the weather has not been super kind. It's all right. I mean,

look, there's been gaps in the weather and also there's so many fun things to do here that, you know, are indoors.

But I just popped out this morning like, oh, I think the weather's looking a bit better and it's raining.

And I left, you know, when you leave and you're like, if I turn around now, I could go and get an umbrella or something and you're like, oh, it's fine.

Well, it's not that fine. It's pretty,

pretty cold rain. But we're staying in an Airbnb in the suburbs and I'm walking past all these

such pretty colour houses. I mean, I would love to speak to the local area folk and find out how it works with the colour of the houses.

Because honestly, if I went home and I was like, I want to do, okay, I'm standing opposite a house.

Okay, hi guys. I want to do like a sort of pea green house with a sort of burgundy edging around all the windows and then a turquoise gate.

Is that okay?

I just feel like in my little pocket of West London there'd be some raised eyebrows.

Here, I'd be like, sure, but have you thought about doing candy pink with purple trim and a blue gate?

Every house is a different colour and some of them are really really cool

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