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.

Hiya, how are you? I'm sheltering from the rain. What is going on with the weather? We've had a few days of it being a bit sunnier and obviously now that April the 12th has been in past, we're allowed now to go out and have meals outside and to do more stuff outdoors.

And the weather is just laughing at us.

It's flipping freezing out there today.

My kids want to see their friends and do stuff.

And not only is it about, I don't know, seven degrees, but it's also raining.

So thanks a lot for that, April, spring springtime see you later uh this is not a weather

report this is an introduction to a podcast how are you has everything else going with you what's been

going on this week we've had some haircuts that's quite exciting uh my children can see again because they'd all got really quite extraordinary haircuts.

It was almost like I'd just doing some sort of hair experiment.

Just do a haircut last year and then just leave it to grow out as long as you like.

There was just lots of visibility issues really.

Some of them look quite cool.

My eight-year-old Ray, he really suited the slightly grown-out thing,

so now he's had a haircut.

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