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 Friday lunch time and yeah I've sort of dipped in and out jubilee things as a street party on

Sunday what's the weather going to be like I mean I suppose it's quite fun take kids along

isn't it's funny because we've just come back from a boating trip for half term and we saw

so much jubilee things including Windsor Castle. So obviously kids all waved

the queen on the way up and on the way back Mickey, my three-year-old, was naked and he did a very

special sort of body dance facing Windsor Castle, especially for Her Majesty. It wasn't a political statement. He's just

three and likes to do that kind of thing. Anyway, how are you getting on? I'm feeling pretty good,

a little bit wiped. Can I be very boring? I have some sort of weird sinusy cough cold thing

that I've had for nearly two weeks and it's really starting to annoy me. You know what it's like? Obviously with a cold, you're not, like, there's not seriously anything wrong with you. But colds are just that thing we're trying to do all the things you normally do, but you just can't quite forget about it. I've never had one quite like this before. I wake up in the morning, and it's like my whole face hurts. What is that? Is it sinusitis? Maybe. I've never had one quite like this before. I wake up in the morning and it's like my whole face hurts.

What is that? Is it sinusitis? Maybe. I've never had it before. I suppose I should be excited to be experiencing a new ailment. Well, anyway, I've had enough of it now. It's been five days of this

particular phase of the cold. Anyway, sorry, I told you it was boring. And what else is happening? I can hear

Richard in the studio. He's listening to live mixes of the tour that we did, because I think

we're going to put it all together and bring that out at some point on a final album. So that's

quite fun. I say it's fun. It means I'm listening to him listening to my voice, which I find very

difficult to listen through. I'm not very good at listening to mixes because it's got me in it.

What is it about our own voices that means we don't like hearing them recorded and played back?

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