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

happy new year my little podcat how are you? How is 2022 treating you so far? How's your Christmas?

Did you manage to have a Christmas? We were very, very lucky and did actually manage to get everybody here.

But it was very touch and go because about, just over a week before Christmas,

I came down with Omicron, along with what felt like pretty much 50% of the people I knew.

So the worst thing about it in my experience, because for me it was really mild, was just the fact that

I was worried that I suddenly had thrown Christmas into jeopardy. And obviously after last year

and not being able to see anybody Christmas Day last year, I really wanted people to be able to come

around. So luckily, no one else in the family caught it, which was pretty phenomenal.

And then, yeah, we managed to have Rich's folks over and my mom and my brother and my sister and his brother and their boyfriend and girlfriend.

So yeah, all good, actually.

Finally, few.

I hope you had a good one yourself.

I know for a lot of people, they found that they

couldn't see people. They had COVID. They spent Christmas on their own. And I just hope that

whatever happened, however it panned out, I hope you were able to make the best of it. And I think for the

most part, 2022 has been quite clever. This is from my vantage point

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