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.

I'm trying not to start every podcast going, hello, how are you?

Every time I record for my podcast, some weird noise starts. I think that's Richard in the

garden with a leaf blower. Is that very annoying? That's probably a bit too annoying, isn't it?

Well, I'll persevere just in case. I mean, the thing is, Richard does

my editing, so he might decide that he's going to let himself off with the leafblower, and it's not

too annoying. I've had to start recording the introduction to this week's podcast three times in my

house, because it's so hard to find a quiet place so now I'm in my bedroom actually

sealed away and rather embarrassingly I recorded today's guest Jacqueline gold in my house and it was the

most noisy place I've recorded any of my podcasts. So my house is a noisy house.

What more can I say?

That is the world I live in.

I'm really excited about, I get excited about all the guests.

I know that.

But Jacqueline, for me, was a really special chat because I didn't know her at all. We only met for the first time when we

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