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. I am speaking to you from a little part of London on the outskirts

called St Margaret's. I've brought one of my kids here for a medical thing and it's funny for me

because I grew up around here. So the first, I think

we moved here when my mum and dad were still together. So I must be about three. And then my dad

didn't leave the area until I was in my 20s, but my mum moved when I was 11 to the house she's in now.

So I'm doing a bit of a memory lane thing. I don't think I've been around here

for about 20 years, basically. And so I've been walking around and she went past the front door

of the house that my mum and dad used to live in, and then my dad and my stepmom. It's just really weird,

isn't it? When you go past the front door that used to mean so much and now it just looks like quite a normal,

very sweet, but everything obviously looks a little bit smaller than I remember it, probably because

you know, when I was four I was quite a bit shorter than I am now. And I'm now walking down a side road.

Oh, I've just come to the road where my grandparents used to live.

My grandma and grandpa. Oh, that's so sweet. Neither them are alive now. But I remember very well.

I might actually have to walk past their front door. Oh, sorry. Noisy van. Yeah, it's just really funny.

It's like my feet are guiding me places. This should be a really quiet road.

I don't think anybody comes up and down this road very often.

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