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, darlings. Hi you. We're in nearly at the end of term time around here. I don't know about you. If you have kids in your life, I wonder how they're all doing. Because for my lot, we've had a lot of sort of hitting a bit of a wall now really

they always seem to grind to a bit of a halt at the end of term and I feel like the schools

have kind of done their bit of all the assessments and all that and then there's a bit of like filler

happens at the end um and funnily enough I haven't had sports day yet that's coming up next week

so fun enough because I actually spoke yet that's coming up next week so funn enough because

i actually spoke about that with my guest this week so my guest this week is deborah james who i've

been following for a while on instagram she goes under the name of bowel babe and i remember when

i first started following her i knew a little bit about her. I knew about her

podcast, Y, Me and the Big Sea. I'd read some things that she'd written on papers, and so ostensible

what I knew about her was that she had spent time talking about her cancer diagnosis and also

giving lots of inspirational chat

and information to people going through similar experiences.

But when I first started following her,

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