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.

Hi there, how are you, how's it all going?

I am greeting you from the serenity of my youngest's room and Rizzo the cat has just come to

join me, but I suspect she won't really contribute very much. She's, um, how old do you know Rizzo? 17, eh?

That's pretty senior. She still looks young. I don't reckon, I reckon when she's out and about other cats are

really blown away when she tells them how old she is she looks a lot younger um today i am

surrounded by clothes i've been pulling out my wardrobe i'm going off to film a tv program this afternoon

it's a show called would i lie to you? Have you heard of it? It's basically

a show where you tell, you say things and sometimes you're speaking the truth and sometimes you're

lying and then the other team have to guess. And in my mind, I'm going to be quite good at lying.

I think it's making the truth look like a lie that I might struggle with. Let us see.

I'll get back to you with how that went.

It's also where when you have to pick an outfit for doing those kind of quiz show, game show things,

because only the top half of your body is going to be shown.

I have to pick a dress with a nice top or just a nice top, I guess.

Anyway, how did you find last week's podcast with hell her thorny schmidt wasn't she lovely thanks for the positive feedback from that one and i love the

eclecticism of this series so far so we've gone from a spice girl to a former prime minister

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