Hello, I'm Sophia Lyspexter 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, good morning. It's very presumptuous of me just because it's morning for for me, doesn't mean it's morning for you. For me, it's just got nine o'clock on Sunday. And I'm recording this, some might say it's a little risky. My two-year-old's in the God and I can see him. I can hear him. He's chatting, but he's busy. So I thought it seized the moment. I've got two others.

My five-year-old and eight-year-old are watching a movie in the other room. I've just made them pancake, so they'll be fine for a minute. And then my 12-year-old and 16-year-old is still fast asleep. I'll probably have to get them up at some point. and yeah so I'm having a cup of tea, just have my breakfast, and I thought I would chat to you and let you know about this week's podcast. Thank you so much for the lovely feedback about last week. It's good to be back with the third series. I love my chat with Jack Monroe, and I'm so happy that you all liked it as much as me I felt like again a lot of wisdom in

there how lucky am I that I get to hear so much brilliant advice and just I would genuinely say

every single podcast chat I've had I take something away from the conversation stays with me

and that is a lovely feeling so this week is no exception i spoke to jess phillips

who is labor MP for birmingham yardley and my producer clara and i traveled up to see her in person

we went must have been so october november kind of time when we were allowed to go i know that much

but uh now that feels just like a weird idea because obviously we haven't been going anywhere for a while but we were allowed to go i know that much but uh now that feels just like a weird idea

because obviously we haven't been going anywhere for a while but anyway we went to birmingham

we arrived a little early clara nice we had a little fried egg and bacon sandwich outside the

office and then jess arrived bang on time we went into her office on the road um which was

very very very j actually, because it was

completely accessible. She had loads of cards up all over the place from her happy constituents

and messages and lots of information there from what was going on in their lives. And so she's

brilliantly engaged with her constituents but also the place itself

had no heating it was pretty pretty basic um but i guess that's not the priority which is what i

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