Hello, I'm Sophia L'Exta 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.

Hello, it's 904 on Saturday morning and I'm actually being more tired than I was hoping for

because during my weeks when I'm home, this week basically, I've been getting

up around 6 a.m. every day. And I was really looking forward to not the other 6. And you can

probably guess what time Mickey decided was wake up time this morning. Yeah, it's around 6.

So I stupidly stayed up a little bit later last night than I would have done if I'd known that that was definitely going to happen. It's all on me. I wasn't out doing anything ravey. I have been in every night this week and it's been really nice. I've been working on a project in London and it's meant that I'm out by day, home by night, all very sort of cozy and regular, and I've really

enjoyed it. And it's been a really nice project. And frustratingly, is one of those ones I'm not

actually allowed to completely talk about yet in terms of what I've been up to, which I know is

really annoying when people do that. I do appreciate that. That's very irritating.

You'll find out what it is one day in about a year, I imagine. I think that's when it's going to be revealed. But it's been really cool. It's been really nice, a nice group of people and something

a little bit different than my usual, how I usually spend my days. But I've really enjoyed it.

And what else have been up to? Well, Richard's away on tour with

the feeling. He left on Monday. So I've been thinking of them and hearing tales from how it's all

been going on the road. But meanwhile, I don't know, whenever Richard goes away for work and I'm

home, I have all these ideas of what I'm going to do. Oh, I might, you know, book some social time in with some girlfriends for the evening. When I am in, I'll get the kids all down and then I'll be like pottering and doing my projects and get on top of stuff. And actually, I've just been incredibly scrappy. And the days have been really busy with work with very headful kind of work so I get in once the

kids are in bed I'm just a bit mackered myself and so it's been very much more uneventful and is much

more cozy than I might predict it but maybe that's what I needed this is about to be my I think

this is my first weekend in about five or six weeks

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