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, Podcats. How are you? I am speaking to you from Birmingham. I am here because last night I sang one of my support gigs for steps who are on tour at the moment. We are three gigs into the tour.

I said last night in Birmingham. Tonight we're in Birmingham again. So stayed up overnight. And as I chat to you, I have a very exciting view of a huge construction

site out of the window of my hotel room where they are using it. Actually, that is quite amazing.

They're using a huge crane to lower down one of the top levels of what looks like a big car park.

But it's huge.

Whoa.

That's actually pretty cool.

I like seeing things like that.

I mean, overall, watching a construction site is not like a hobby of mine.

I wouldn't want you to think that.

But I seem to have caught it at quite an exciting moment.

So that's good.

And the gigs have been going well.

It's quite a strange one for me because I've sung in arenas before

and I've sung gigs on my own before.

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