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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks the'd be.

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Speaker 2: We're going to catch up though with our book reviewer

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rains for her book picks of this weekend. Now though,

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Speaker 2: so she's got a couple of different reads. We'll track

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Speaker 2: her down and see if she's here, right, Catherine Child

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Speaker 2: A good morning, Good morning Jack. Your first pick for

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Speaker 2: us this weekend is The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin.

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Speaker 3: So this takes place in the New Zealand bush and

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Speaker 3: this very brutal accident happens, and this woman, Effie, is

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Speaker 3: having to confront the place she'd sworn that she'd never

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Speaker 3: go back to. And as a child, her and her

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Speaker 3: siblings had believed that their parents had had an inn

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Speaker 3: in the bush for very altruistic reasons, only realizing in

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Speaker 3: hindsight later in life that the truth was really a

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Speaker 3: much darker reality for them all. And in twenty years later,

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Speaker 3: Effie is living in Scotland and the Isle of Sky

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Speaker 3: when she learns that an almost incident that she learns

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Speaker 3: when she was young, when this bloodstained young girl stumbles

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Speaker 3: out of the bush into this remote town of Corhora,

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Speaker 3: and she doesn't speak, but her physical appearance mirror is

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Speaker 3: that of Fi with her red hair and her green eyes,

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Speaker 3: and his story is almost the same. And so consequently

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Speaker 3: if he is drawn back into this world that she

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Speaker 3: wanted to forget, and the chap resultnate between Efy's past

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Speaker 3: and the current point of view, and it just adds

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Speaker 3: to the secret see and mysteries of the past and

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Speaker 3: lots of questions are left unanswered to almost the very end.

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Speaker 3: And the author, Zoe Rankin, takes you on this journey

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Speaker 3: of a dark family history and a really intense story

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Speaker 3: that keepts you completely captivated.

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Speaker 2: And hold fantastic. So is Zoe a key Wei author.

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Speaker 2: I presume she is a key.

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Speaker 3: WE author and this is her debut novel and I

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Speaker 3: can't wait to read what she writes next.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so perb that sounds great. Okay, So that's The

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Speaker 2: Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin. You've also read another book

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Speaker 2: by another key We author, This has Become Unstoppable by

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Speaker 2: Gilbert Sinoka.

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Speaker 3: So Gilbert and it is very well known for his

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Speaker 3: success as an All Black's mental skills and leadership coach,

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Speaker 3: and his skills have been sought after the English cricket

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Speaker 3: team New South Wales state of origin and Premier League

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Speaker 3: club Chelsea and the Crusaders and Black Pats, Cruisies and

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Speaker 3: all sorts of people, and he shares the philosophies that

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Speaker 3: he's used for supporting success and all Blacks coach Steve

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Speaker 3: Hansen credits him as the really secret ingredient that helped

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Speaker 3: them deliver to Rugby World Cup titles and tri Nations

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Speaker 3: and major sporting victories. But what Gilberinah knows is all

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Speaker 3: about is this connection and this belonging and a lot

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Speaker 3: of these qualities shaped him from his very early years

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Speaker 3: in Ammatin's children home and that experience and that experience

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Speaker 3: really shaped what his future mental skills and leadership approach

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Speaker 3: would look like. And at twelve he ends up back

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Speaker 3: in Punston North was his mum and life with an

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Speaker 3: alcoholic stepfather and challenging, and that's where he finds follow

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Speaker 3: Wallers this kind of outlet and passion and it's really

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Speaker 3: in volleyball and that representative where he kind of they

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Speaker 3: adopted these concepts like leadership and journaling and feedback, chessions

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Speaker 3: and ownership that didn't really exist in the late seventies

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Speaker 3: and early eighties. And I also taught at Hill Walsh

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Speaker 3: in high school, and that's actually where he meets Wayne Smith,

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Speaker 3: who was in All Blacks at the time, and they

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Speaker 3: start looking at these fresh and different mindsets. And Smith,

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Speaker 3: once he's started coaching, and Anoka for those kind of things.

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Speaker 3: And you know, Anoka, for his part, is very proud

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Speaker 3: and changing that All Blacks culture, you know, and really

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Speaker 3: instrumental and changing that. But the book has all these

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Speaker 3: really practical suggestions as well for all of us about

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Speaker 3: the techniques they use with the All Blacks, and he

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Speaker 3: writes and speaks about his lessons and that real edge

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Speaker 3: that comes from connection and values and being valued and

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Speaker 3: that teen culture, and that's where the really interesting lessons

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Speaker 3: come for all of us in our every day lives.

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Speaker 2: No, I can't wait to read that. He's just an

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Speaker 2: absolute legend day. So that sounds superb. But to me,

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Speaker 2: that's become Unstoppable by Gilbert Inoka and Catherine's first book,

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Speaker 2: the novel is The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rang And

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Speaker 2: details of both of those books are going to be

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Speaker 2: up on the news talks he'd be website. Have a

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Speaker 2: good week, Catherine.

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