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, dear heart. Welcome to podcast number four. How are you? How's your week been?

I hope you've been having an all right time. If you live anywhere near me in London, I hope you've been enjoying the nice warm weather this week. It's been lovely and sunny.

And yeah, what's been going on here this week?

Not so much. Last week we did an end-term kitchen disco. That was lots of fun. So that's me and my

husband and our children. I try to perform a gig which which we put on Instagram live, while my children

mainly dance around, fight with each other and then look really bored during the show.

That's kind of what it is. Anyway, yeah, so what we got up this week. Oh, a lovely one this week. I had a great conversation with Mylene Klaas. So I've known Mylene. Oh, golly, I think I probably met her when I was about 20, 21. And Mylene was in hearsay, the band Hearsay. And it was when I was just releasing my first solo material and we were on the same

label. We were both on Polidore. So we used to find ourselves performing at the same things and

hanging out of the same stuff. And I didn't know her super well back then, but over the years we

sort of found ourselves at things together. And she's always been really lovely and warm and chatty and always

had lots of things going on in her life so so yeah this was a real treat um and not least because

i went around to myeline's house back this was back pre-lockdown but very very close to lockdown back in

march and um she had a beautiful baby boy apollo there who who they call Snoopy and she's got two daughters

of her own and she's also now stepmom to her boyfriend Simon's two kids as well so they are

a blended family of five so yes that's kind of where we started, having baby cuddles and chats in her

sitting room. And I'll leave it over to, over to Miley. She's got so many words of wisdom. I think

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