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, hey, how are you doing?

Funny thing, I've had two nights out, the last two nights,

and I've been a bit silly and stayed out a bit late both nights.

I've had not very much sleep the last couple of nights,

but I've still been getting up in the morning and, you know, doing all the normal stuff. And then my three-year-old, Mickey, he's very, very clingy.

He's lovely. He's lots of fun, but he will not leave me alone for even a minute. So just now I've come out of the house to go and pick up my six-year-old from a play date and I had to

like run away from Mickey a little bit because I didn't have the right car seat in the car so I just

said to Richard oh I'm just going to get Mickey on Jesse on my own and so poor Mickey he was

distraught but I ran out the door and then, I feel like I can actually still hear him crying.

I'm like, not even in the house.

Anyway, then I got in the car, and then it was all quiet and calm.

And the journey to go and pick up Jesse is only 10 minutes,

and I thought, I just want to sit here in the quiet calm car for a second because I'm tired.

I genuinely feel like I can still hear him crying.

I can. I can hear him like absolutely screaming. What is going on? I think I might have to go and check, actually. I think

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