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.

Hello, darlings.

I have to be relatively quick here. It's one of those days where I just don't seem to

get away in the nicest way. I don't seem to get away from my children. I'm currently hiding in

Mickey's room. Sometimes it's like I've got a massive magnet in my pocket and the kids just

follow the magnet. So how are you? I hope you had a good week i've had a really

exciting week actually it's been really nice um there was quite a lot riding on it because i did this

session for radio two called the piano room sessions and lots of other amazing artists have been doing

it all throughout the month of february and i just didn't want to be the crap one at the end. And I also wanted to really enjoy it, but also I was doing my new single, which is called Breaking the Circle. I was singing that for the first time live, and I was also doing a cover of Madonna song, Open Your Hearts so I wanted to kind of nail that.

And hang on a minute. Yeah?

I hope, Danny, you can have a little bit more men.

All right, darling, that's sweet if you. Thank you.

That's my seven-year-old trying to wake up my 18-year-old and him going,

Mommy, I just told Sonny he can have a little bit more rest,

which, given that it's quarter to 12 on Sunday is quite something.

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