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, you. Am I in a very echoey room?

Yes, very echoey.

I'm on my way to get the kids from school and I've run out of time to record this in more leisurely fashion.

So basically I'm now at the tube station near my house

and I've gone into...

Sometimes at the tube stations,

there have those funny little waiting rooms

that no one ever uses unless it's freezing.

So I'm in here on my own.

I'm a bit out of breath because I just ran up the stairs

to get to the platform.

But enough about me.

How are you?

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