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.

Hey, hey, how are you? It is I, your host of Spinning Plutes podcast. I am getting increasingly loopy

with my introductions to the podcast. Do you not find? Anyway, I hope everything's about with you.

I am sat sheltering from a bit of a thunderstorm, actually.

We've had a bit of a heat wave, and now the rain is coming, that's good.

And talking of heat waves, when I interviewed this week's guest, lovely Thomasina Myers,

who is the winner of Master Chef 2005, I believe it was,

but also the founder of Oaxaca, among many other things that she gets up to, her cookbooks,

her association with chefs in schools, helping children learn how to cook tasty, affordable food.

When I spoke to Tommy, it was another very hot day.

So you'll hear us talking about having hot thighs, actually.

And we're not talking about cooking thighs.

We're talking about literally our own thighs being warm.

It was really lovely to talk to Tommy. I went round to her house to chat

to her and she was very, very open and warm and very candid actually about a period in her life

she calls her wilderness years where she sort of feels like she wasn't really sure what she

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