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.

Hello, my fellow spinning platesters. That's what I'm going to call you from now on. If we see each other in the street, it's just a high five and like a nod and then spinning platesers and then a high five. Obviously that's post-COVID restrictions.

By which time I hope you'll forget I ever had this idea because quite frankly it would be terrible to greet someone in that way

and say spinning plaitsters.

How have you been?

Isn't it nice that spring is on its way?

We live next door to a house has a beautiful magnolia, which is in full

blue right now. It's gorgeous pink flowers are everywhere, and we've had two days of blue sky.

And it is helping. I mean, I'm not going to lie. I was always really looking forward to spring.

I thought it would make me feel like a lot more of a spring in my step, it's more like a little teeny tiny spring. But that's fine. I'll take it. It's still a lift, right?

And what else is going on? My eldest is nearly finished. He's just doing GCSEs at the moment. So he's

figuring his way through the last bits of work without the

exams which am I allowed to say I'm quite happy about that I was always dreading the exams for him

and what else oh I had a lovely thing where I might sort of went through the telebox into a program

I love which is grace and Perry's art club I don't know if you would have seen it, but we love Grace and Perry and his wife, Philippa Perry, in our house. And I'd never met them before, but I really love the program that they do, because it's all about art for art sake, and it's not a tall elitist, which I think is exactly how creative stuff should be. It should just be something where we all encourage it with each other

because it's so good for the soul.

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