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.

Yo! See, I don't always want to start with hello. So last week it was good day. This time it's yo. How did that work? It wasn't very good, was it?

Don't worry, I'll go back to hello next week. Anyway, yo spinning plates does? Oh God, this is terrible.

I sound like someone who's trying to be young and down with the kids.

It's not even my normal stance.

I know I'm not cool.

I'm not the Fons.

How are you?

I hope everything is okay.

I have a lovely guest this week, actually.

Someone I thought of right at the beginning to speak to you for spinning plates.

She's someone I've known for a little while. Her name is Julie Dean.

And she set up a company called the Cambridge Satchel Company.

She's built up this company all by herself, starting off with making her satchels, her beautiful satchels in the

kitchen of her own home, and now it is a multi-million pound international company.

But actually, that for me is not the most exciting bit of her story.

Sure, it's exciting.

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