Hello, I'm Sophia Lysbexter 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 I'm feeling a bit secretive as I record this because I'm walking home from dropping the kids at school.

Basically, I don't really want people to think I'm being a bit of a wally recording something on my own.

So I'm trying to look as if I'm just having a phone call

rather than

talking to, I suppose, essentially, for the time being myself.

And I'm not sure I'm pulling that off, really.

It's, what time is it?

9.4.

And it's actually not that cold today, which is good.

And it's one of those mornings where the light is still really sleepy time grey,

which always to me makes it look like the day hasn't quite woken up yet,

which is a bit annoying. Wake up day. Come on. Get a move on. I'm up. You have to be up.

But anyway, it's not very cold. So that's a bonus. So I can do this without gloves.

Woo-hoo.

And so we've had some nice news this week that we've been able to share, which is that last year, Richard and I, we put together a cookbook.

Now, that is something I tried to instigate about five years ago because we've always loved food

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