Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak 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, how you doing? Welcome to week three. I tried to record an intro in a more professional setting and it just doesn't work for me. I find that I always want to talk to you while there's other stuff going on. So I've got Jesse playing next door. I've got Kit doing something and another. Oh, that was Jesse slamming the door. Mickey's eating something.

You're right there, Mickey? Um, anywho, I hope you're doing well. We're three weeks in, you and me.

It's becoming a long-term thing. I miss you when you're away. How have you been? How was your week?

Everything's been all right here.

Just been a bit manic, to be honest. I've been doing some work things. Quite big stuff for next year.

And it's all very exciting, but it's just made me feel. If we use the spinning played metaphor,

I feel like they are maybe about to topple, maybe about to crash.

Oh, more slamming. Oh, why don't mind you do? Don't worry, darling. Just do better spying. Go in the sitting room and have a look through the window there. Did you hear that? Jesse was trying to spy on McRae, but she saw him. It went wrong. Anyway, you don't want to hear about this stuff um this week my guest

is candice break right candice has got um two kids a little boys too and a little guy six um she um

she's been instagramming a like a mummy blogger i think you'd call it um for a few years now

but not because she thought,

oh, I've got an amazing wife and I want to share it, but because she could see a gap for

a black, young black family showing that they were thriving, not just surviving in the UK.

And she's got a lot to say for herself.

She set up something brilliant called Make Motherhood Diverse a few years back, which is an initiative to show the many different faces of motherhood in the UK for people that maybe don't always feel represented. And she released her first book this year. It's called I'm Not Your Baby Mother. It's in the bestseller list. It's absolutely brilliant.

It's been swept up in the Black Lives Matter movement, although obviously she wrote it beforehand.

But it's, it's, it's got, it's rightly a bestseller. I really, I whipped through it. I loved it.

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