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, my darlings. You join me as I walk back from School Run. It's been a really, really rainy night. So I'm having to tuck in on the pavement because every time a car goes past I get threatened with a big splash from all the huge puddles.

Hasn't got me yet, though, which is good because I don't want that.

I, to the passing pedestrians, look a little bit insane because last night I recorded Graham Norton TV and have still got the

makeup on from the show. So I've got a very beautiful blue eye shadow and false eyelashes.

It's not completely out of character for me to sleep in my makeup.

However, the reason I ended up not being able to take it off was actually because

so the show was really fun, but I was a little bit nervous because Graham not in such a big

TV program.

And it's the first time I've ever been on that show where I'm just a guest, not singing.

So that's a bit scary.

And the other people on the show was Kadina Cox, who's an amazing gold medal winning Paralympic athlete.

She won two golds in Tokyo this year, as well as just winning celebrity

Master's Chef.

Oh, oh, blarmy.

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