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 lovely podcast listener. How are you today? You find me upstairs in Mickey's room,

which is also my wardrobe room. I did manage to get this place quite organised for a while,

but now it's looking like it needs to be a TLC. I've been working quite a lot recently and actually this is my first weekend off in eight

weekends I think nine weekends lots of festivals lots of gigs so it's been really nice just not

going out and just taking some time with the family and just, yeah, not living out of a bag for a weekend.

The festival's been amazing. I've had some awesome gigs, but I am quite happy just to be sat at home and not doing so much, and that's probably why I sound quite so lethargic.

I think I'm actually fairly knackered. It's been a lot of seven-day weeks going on around here. And I think also we're kind of heading towards half-terms that the kids are a bit knackard too. In fact, my youngest, Mickey, is not very well today, which is a shame. There's so many bugs going around, aren't there? Now that we're all out and about and meet each other again, all those other things that we're being repressed are now out and about. And yeah, I've got quite a busy week ahead, but I've done the

majority of my stuff for the book now, the promotion of that. So that's out in the world. And thank

you so much for all the response that I've been having. If you're one of the people that has got in touch about the book, then honestly, it meant a lot to me.

It's been a slightly...

Well, what's the right word?

I suppose it's just made me feel a bit more vulnerable than the usual release.

When you put an album out into the world, albums are laced with lots of stuff.

They're incredibly collaborative. And even though there might be lots of your own emotions in there

that are completely authentic to what you're living through, you can mask it in amongst other

things and other characters, whereas in the book, if it's an autobiography, there's not really

those layers, you know, a bit weird if I

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