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.

Good day to you, my fellow spinning plate person.

How are you?

I hope you had a good week.

I'm counting out.

Oh, for goodness sake, it's very inconsiderate.

I'm trying to record something for my podcast.

I'm out walking with Mickey. We're off to go and meet

grandma for a dog walk and the sun is shining, so we're covered in sunscreen. This week's

guest is an amazing woman. She's called Yvonne Telford, and her company is called Kemi Telford. She primarily, it's a clothing

company, beautiful, bold, often voluminous, bright dresses, often in Nigerian prints.

They are extrovert and gorgeous and colourful, pretty joyful clothing actually. And would you believe it,

the woman behind it, Yvonne is a pretty gorgeous, colourful, joyful, joyful person too.

Her story is one I've been so excited to share with you since I first recorded it because

I'm going to be

a bit bold here and say I'm pretty sure some people who listen to this conversation is going to

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