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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing. I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit of a nomad, so these episodes come to you

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Speaker 1: from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,

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Speaker 1: so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,

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Speaker 1: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health

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Speaker 1: discoveries to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay Beaches. Come with

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Speaker 1: me as I share my adventures with you. You know, huh.

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Speaker 1: Diary pod from Los Angeles. Right, Let's to update you

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Speaker 1: on this week as always book review, show review, foody review,

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Speaker 1: and update on the week that was since we last spoke.

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Speaker 1: I've just added a new segment to our LA diaries.

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Speaker 1: I thought I want in case you're planning on ever visiting.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what do I review things under a theme topic?

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Speaker 1: So here's what I'm thinking in each Diary app We're

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Speaker 1: going to add a little new segment called the Best

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Speaker 1: of LA. So today we're going to review cookies. I

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Speaker 1: can do reviews a ps. That probably wasn't the most

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Speaker 1: healthiest thing, but I feel like Americans just do cookies

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Speaker 1: very well. And as you'll hear, I have road tested

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Speaker 1: every single one that I talk about today. I think

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Speaker 1: we can do reviews on this. This is my list, okay, So,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking we just make this a segi within

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Speaker 1: the diary app. So salads, of course, you know I'm

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Speaker 1: a bit of a salad fiend. The different green juices

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Speaker 1: and smoothies you can get around LA. We have to

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Speaker 1: do fast food. I feel like America is king of

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Speaker 1: fast food. Cookies is what we're going to do today.

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Speaker 1: I think we do burgers, pizza, and donuts, and I'm

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Speaker 1: determined to find like a healthy alternative for each of

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Speaker 1: those things, but also still try the non so healthy

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Speaker 1: versions as well. So you've got a little to a guide.

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Speaker 1: If you're ever in LA, you're like, okay, And if

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Speaker 1: you're a cookie fiend, well, after today, I will have

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Speaker 1: reviewed one, two, three, four, five, six different places here

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you the truth and we've I'll always

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Speaker 1: make sure there is a gluten free at least one

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Speaker 1: or two gluten free options within every single review. So

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Speaker 1: how does that sound good? Right? The week that was okay,

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Speaker 1: I did a big audition for a yoga teaching job.

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Speaker 1: It was different to Australia. So in Australia, when you

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Speaker 1: on in. You will meet maybe then the studio manager,

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Speaker 1: it's had to clear the old throat there. And then

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Speaker 1: you'll teach them like a fifteen ten, maybe twenty minutes,

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Speaker 1: like part of a sequence, and then they'll ask you

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Speaker 1: It was around Robin style. No question about my training,

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Speaker 1: no question about anything like that. I literally got to

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Speaker 1: I've got absolutely no idea. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: it was literally felt like a callback for an acting audition.

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Speaker 1: It literally felt the exact same as that, but you're

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Speaker 1: so that happened this week. I've also been working at

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Speaker 1: just nice. Basically, I've got an American bank account, and

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Speaker 1: American credit card, so I can kind of keep Australian

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Speaker 1: finance is slightly different to American because basically, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: sent an influencer pressie from Australia called Seed Cycle, and

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Speaker 1: this is all about different types of ground seeds that

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Speaker 1: get your period, essentially. They also have brownie and cookie

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Speaker 1: combos a Holy mackerel so good, so so good. So

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Speaker 1: seventy grams of chocolate. So it's made with cacao, butter, inulin, cacao,

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Speaker 1: One because where I work in Culver City has an

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Speaker 1: On TikTok, Influence is always posting about these combo plates.

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to go vegan. I'm piniting lots of

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Speaker 1: So I got a Comboplate. Of course, I got the

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Speaker 1: I got their iconic gluten free, dairy free vegan mac

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Speaker 1: this was actually quite good. It's called a Kito almond

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Speaker 1: it's swingingened with Alu loose, which is that plant fiber

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Speaker 1: discovered a new flavor, cherry colar. So it's very much

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Speaker 1: like your doctor peppery kind of flavors, and cherry color

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Speaker 1: is big over here, like you can get pepsi cherry flavor.

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Speaker 1: and Ollipop again is swinged with that plant fiber alulose. Radio.

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Speaker 1: Let's do book review, TV show review, and then I'll

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Speaker 1: give you my new segment best of La Cookies. So

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Speaker 1: yesterday I interviewed Sean Zepps and he is the author

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Speaker 1: of Not Like Other Dads. This book is officially out now,

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Speaker 1: a fearless, frank, and funny memoir about reinventing the rules

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Speaker 1: of parenting. Great book. I read it in two and

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Speaker 1: a half days because I knew I had to interview Sean.

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Speaker 1: It's really I was going to say inspiring, but it's

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Speaker 1: more it's just like a really honest tale of him

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Speaker 1: and his partner Josh's journey into parenthood and the highs

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Speaker 1: and lows of that, and it's told just with complete honesty.

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Speaker 1: Trigger warning. There is a bit about mental health, anxiety, depressure,

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Speaker 1: the self harm in here and again on Monday's episode

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Speaker 1: because I've interviewed Sean. The episode's going to come out

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Speaker 1: Monday same morning. There we really do deep dive Sean's

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Speaker 1: life and the ups and downs of that, as well

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Speaker 1: as this book. But anyway, the book is unreal. I

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Speaker 1: loved it. I haven't read nonfiction for a long time.

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