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. Hey podcats. How you doing? I'm recording this outside my house. My hand is so cold, it's about to fall off.

I tried recording this about three or four times inside the house. I kept being interrupted,

because it turns out I had a lot of children and they just want to come and find me even when I hide myself in the room

so it's quite obvious I want some space uh anyway how are you it's been ages I haven't done a podcast since

December had a month off and I'm now back with a beautiful selection of people to talk to for

for this series third series that's exciting thank you so much

for uh yeah for being there with me i've missed you actually i've been looking forward to getting on

with another series um what's been going on in the meantime same as you probably lockdown blah blah

uh not really sure what day of the week it is. Actually,

it's not quite true. I do know it's Valentine's Day, so happy love day to you. And kids are

on half term, so you know, what off school. How is everything going with you? And if you're doing

the homeschooling thing,

should we just admit defeat and not call it homeschooling? Why did they ever call it homeschooling?

It's not homeschooling. As my mum pointed out to me this week, it's emergency education.

Doesn't that sound much more apt? If you think you're doing emergency education,

oh, hello bloody. You stop trying to be perfect at it, which is ridiculous anyway. Miss my house. You've seen what my kitchen looks like probably. We don't have a home that looks like a school. And I am not very patient when it comes teaching. It turns out. Anyway, that's boring. We don't want to talk about that. What else's been going on? I've been writing a bit of a book. That's been fun. Doing a bit of an autobiography. Just as and when I can. It's been quite fun to delve back to memories. I haven't thought of for ages. Like going back to when I was 16, 17. Actually, it's been quite traumatic, but it's fine. You've got to read all about it at some point, hopefully. I've been doing a bit of work on the album.

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