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.

Unusual moment alert. I'm home, alone. I know, pretty crazy. I'm probably on borrowed time.

The kids are about to get home from school. But I'm just enjoying it. I could happily have another

couple of hours, if I'm honest. This is something very luxurious about being in a quiet house and thinking of all the things

that I could do.

And actually, the thing I have been doing is going through my to-do list.

I've decided I needed to write a list.

I normally don't write anything down.

And last week and the week before, I did, I think, maybe five or six podcast interviews.

And when I do them, I don't write down any questions and I don't make any notes.

So basically, I have a little part of my brain at the front.

I always feel like it's the front.

Might not be.

In my head, it's in the front.

And I shove in there the information that I need and then I retain

it for that while I'm doing the interview and then I sort of try and get rid of it to make room

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