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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, good

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Speaker 1: morn's if you're listening to this in the morning, good

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Speaker 1: evening if you're listening to this in the evening. This

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Speaker 1: is your diary podcast episode, So checking into you from

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay. This will be everything that's gone down in

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Speaker 1: the last week. So in the mid at the moment,

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Speaker 1: and then with that egg collection, then my boyfriend bosso

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Speaker 1: will be fertilized and then they've got to survive five

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Speaker 1: planning at the moment. We're doing a whole pod special

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Speaker 1: the moment. But because I am in the thick of

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Speaker 1: bit of just how the weeks have been because at

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Speaker 1: the moment, like when you're in the middle of it,

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Speaker 1: it's called a cycle. When you're in the middle of it,

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Speaker 1: it does feel very much like that is what your

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Speaker 1: life is like. It is a huge it becomes a

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Speaker 1: huge part of your life. Like there's an influencer event

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Speaker 1: on tonight. I will not be going. I just am

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Speaker 1: like you do or I don't. I'm not speaking like that.

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Speaker 1: Everyone does this, but I'm just like, I really want

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Speaker 1: to protect my energy. I'm spending time like walking in

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Speaker 1: just kind of like still doing all my work and stuff,

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Speaker 1: but really just protecting my energy. So I will, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I will share the week that was from everything kind

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Speaker 1: of perspective, but obviously it will have a fertility twang

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Speaker 1: to it a little bit. Monday's episode, you had Mary

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Speaker 1: Lou talking about nad plus, which is like this new

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Speaker 1: considered like a big youth Alixa. So we talk all

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Speaker 1: next week you've got the incredible Sam Bloom on the pod.

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Speaker 1: So incredible human, incredible story. There's actually a movie made

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Speaker 1: about Sam and how a little magpie save their family.

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Speaker 1: So that's next week, but for today, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the week that was. So because I am in the

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Speaker 1: middle of all thistility stuff, I have also seen my

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Speaker 1: natural path. I've seen an acupuncturist. I've had therapy, I've

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Speaker 1: had like daily chats with the nurses at the fertility

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Speaker 1: at the fertility clinic. Sorry, I just slend on the cord,

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Speaker 1: which I think made a sound. So I feel like

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of in that vortex right now. But I

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Speaker 1: will say, like, if you are ever thinking about going

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Speaker 1: neutropathy and the acupuncture in like combined with the orthodox medicines,

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Speaker 1: they're providing me a lot of balance and as somebody

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Speaker 1: It is really comforting mentally to know that I'm doing

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Speaker 1: a lot from a supplement perspective as well. So my

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Speaker 1: points in my feet, and kidney's really important for fertility

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Speaker 1: in Chinese medicine. And my diet has got like a

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Speaker 1: more intensive exercise. I'm doing very gentle like beach walks

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Speaker 1: what else is happening here? So Mum's flying up today

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Speaker 1: I was like, if you want to dart my stomach,

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Speaker 1: at all. Numbing cream you just get it from the chemist.

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Speaker 1: So good. Okay, I've got a book review for you.

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Speaker 1: So first of all this you know, I love Candice Fox.

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Speaker 1: She's a crime fiction author. This book's written but with

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Speaker 1: like the world's best selling thriller writer and like number

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Speaker 1: called Never Never. It's Easy to Go Missing in the

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Speaker 1: middle of Nowhere. It's set in Australia. Set in Western Australia,

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Speaker 1: just read you the back of it. So our hero,

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Speaker 1: our protagonist is Detective Harriet Blue. So here we go.

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Speaker 1: Detective Harriet Blue needs to get out of town fast,

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Speaker 1: I think I read in two days. There's another the

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Speaker 1: next book I think is called something like fifty to

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Speaker 1: Lola turn a poach. Yeah, this is the second series

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Speaker 1: is called fifty to fifty. So I'll try and get

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Speaker 1: that one next. I'm in the middle of reading a

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Speaker 1: Strypod or do a review for you. But that's a

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Speaker 1: Christmas treats. But I found this brand. It's called No

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Speaker 1: Christmas section at Woolies. We did also try Cabri Dream

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Speaker 1: So Matt and I have been like chopping up mangoes

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Speaker 1: And he took us driving on the beach, which neither

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Speaker 1: Matt and I have ever done it. It's a lot

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