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, how are you? My God, you're looking really well. And yes, that is the sound of me filling my dishwasher as I speak to you because I'm an absolute idiot and I just, I don't know why I did that. I'm going to walk away from dishwasher. It wasn't a cool way to start a podcast. Honestly, good to see you again and thank you

for coming back to the plate spinning that goes on around here and no doubt in your lives too.

And how have you been? How is life? How has everything been treating you in the last,

or what's it been? Five weeks, I think, since the last episode came out. The last episode finished with, this is our series finished with Dr. Catherine Green of the AstraZeneca vaccine,

who actually I had COVID while I was talking to her. And I did say to her, thank you so much. You've made me not so sick. I can't speak to you. So that's a good thing, isn't it? Oh, bloody hell, that's a doorbell. This was a silly idea. This is going to be all my children, isn't it? I don't know why I did this at half past four. This was a silly idea. Oh, hi there. Thank you.

No, not my kids. Amazon. And not even for me, for Richard. I think there needs to be a word of, like, a way of describing word for when you accept a package and then realize it's not for you, it's for someone else.

That's sort of package disappointment.

Anyway, so this series, I'm actually, I don't know if you can pick up and feeling a little bit smug

because I've already recorded loads, which is a lovely feeling,

because sometimes I'm chasing my tail a little bit.

But no, I've got at least,

I've got over half the series already recorded with some amazing guests. Again, very, very

diverse. Everything from an Indian sex coach to an Australian comedian. Yes. And we're starting off the series with somebody that I really enjoyed talking to.

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