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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: 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. Hello, Hello, friends,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to pod Diary week. That was from City

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Speaker 1: of Angels La La Land, Los Angeles. It's been a

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Speaker 1: big week. And I also have a book review for you,

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Speaker 1: because I think you might know this if you've been

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Speaker 1: listening for a while. You know, every a couple of

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Speaker 1: genre of books and really get sucked in and read

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Speaker 1: a series that's just happened again. So probably a year

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Speaker 1: That's kind of that was my gateway in and then yeah,

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Speaker 1: called a Court of Thorn. And roses that initial one

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Speaker 1: that is like I think a five or six book deal,

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Speaker 1: you're up for like a little adventure but nothing too

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Speaker 1: that said Matt will tell you that I lose all

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start with the week that was here

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Speaker 1: an amazing nature path His name is Jad Patrick, and

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Speaker 1: he helped me come up with a plan to help

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Speaker 1: with my cholesterol levels, which is unreal so like it

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Speaker 1: takes a little while. I'm sure you know this, but

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Speaker 1: So I've just been slowly introducing more of what Jad

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna do some more functional tests here in

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Speaker 1: what I do. How this book ended, it is really

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Speaker 1: effing cool. Our hero is a girl called Alexus. I'm

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Speaker 1: But basically is a Grecian war games like she competes

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Speaker 1: There's just a few problems, and then it goes into

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Speaker 1: hope that it in some way helpful to you. Monday's episode,

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Speaker 1: if you want to learn anything about PR branding, marketing comms,

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Speaker 1: Alie Dodge comes on the pod. It's the EPs out.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm waffling. Happy Friday. This is a

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Speaker 1: hang on, it's a Lola day, go do your things

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Speaker 1: so big love hooru. And yeah, if you want a

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Speaker 1: fun escapism read would definitely recommend a lot of hercules,

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Speaker 1: and then bonds of hercules. It's such a fun one,

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Speaker 1: all right, Huru meg a love bye