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 welcome to

spinning plates how are you hope you're a well in true

working mother fashion as we are all doing now that we're all working from home all the time.

I'm in the garden with two of my smalls so you'll hear them in the background, no doubt.

This week is my conversation that I recorded with my mum.

We recorded it back in March just before lockdown.

Went around to her house.

I was allowed to hug her and all that stuff.

So it's very strange listening back.

It's not that long ago chronologically but it feels like a

lifetime ago in times of how things have changed since then and i'm going to be really honest

i found this the hardest of all the interviews i've done in all the podcast chats uh this was the

hardest um hold on a second kit you can have it in a second but let me yes you can go you can go and finish it, that's fine. Kit wants to finish his popcorn from yesterday. That's quite reasonable, isn't it? Yes, you can finish the bag. But, yeah, I found it really hard interviewing my mum. I guess it's because, A, I don't have loads of experience as an interviewer anyway, so that's still quite new.

And B, she's very close to home.

She's talking about her own life and the child in question while she's working is me.

So I'm sort of responsible for the good and the bad, aren't I, with how it affected what

she got up to.

So, yeah, I found it really lovely to talk to her about it.

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