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.

Good day to you. Podcats. How are you? I am speaking to you with a very well-slept voice today. Do I sound different? Maybe a little bit different. I had a really good, like, solid eight-hour sleep just now. Why, you may ask yourself, it's because I'm not home, I tell you. I speak to you from Manchester. It's so bizarre. I've had a night away for work.

Yesterday when I left the house, I felt terrible leaving this malls. And Richard, I've been home,

you know, obviously every night with them and

this is the first night i've had away from my family for months and months and months but i have to say

and they won't hear this that waking up after a good sleep has reduced that anguish i felt at leaving them to a dim and distant memory

and now i'm just thinking this bed is comfy and it was nice to have proper blackout curtains

and silence um don't worry i will be back tonight i go back home um i'm up here filming

something for alan car's epic game show i'm not a contestant i'm someone that's assisting

in the show itself you'll see what i mean when it's on telly i don't know if i'm allowed to

speak about it don't tell anyone i told you even what i told you um i came up yesterday to film and I'm back home tonight and I don't get into about 1 o'clock in the morning, maybe 1.30 because it's a long journey home and I don't finish till late up here.

So don't worry, I'll be back to that sort of slightly sleep-deprived state that I usually inhabit by this time tomorrow.

What else can I tell you? We've got our final kitchen disco this

Friday. I've been planning the playlist. I say this Friday. I mean tomorrow, I'm talking to you

from way back in the past. It's Thursday where I am. And I've been planning what songs to do. I've

asked people online to help me with what songs they want

because it was actually really hard to set up a poll for all my songs so people could vote, but also

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