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.

Hey, hey, how have you been? How's your week been? It's quite funny because I've spent this week in a studio. So from Monday morning all the way through to Friday night, I was away, actually. We went to a studio in Suffolk, really pretty studio called Decoy, and recorded, oh, I think we ended up doing six or maybe even seven tracks for my new album.

And I'm saying it's funny because I was there away.

I was able to think straight about lots of stuff.

I was really immersed in the work.

I spent a lot of time emailing,

really amazing people to see if they might do the podcast

and had some surprising yeses from people I was expecting

was going to be a definite no, so that's lovely.

But guess what I didn't do in the whole week

where I had all these uninterrupted moments what I didn't do in the whole week where I had all these uninterrupted

moments? I didn't record the intro on outro. How rubbish is that of me? I was just, it was just like,

yeah, I'll do it, I'll do it. So I find myself, what time is it now? Um, it's nearly half past four on Sunday.

And my patient husband is waiting for me to record this so that he can upload it all.

So it can be published in just over 12 hours time fresh on all the places where the podcast

goes.

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