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Speaker 1: Jumb mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Not many contestants after Bachelor fame can say they've had

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Speaker 2: a career quite as colorful as Sam Frost. After being

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Speaker 2: jilted by Blake Garvage, doesn't that seem a long time ago?

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Speaker 2: She came back as the Bachelorette. After that, she became

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Speaker 2: a breakfast radio host, then lander. Jonesy, your dream of

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Speaker 2: being a character and home and Away.

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Speaker 3: I could have been Sam Frost's character. You could have.

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Speaker 2: But not all has been what it seems with Sam,

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Speaker 2: and there have been some dark times along the way.

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Speaker 2: She's written a book to take back control of her story.

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Speaker 1: Sam Frost, Hello, Hi, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's great to have you on the show. And

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Speaker 3: really I was reading the Stellar article in the newspaper

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Speaker 3: on the weekend and there's a bit where you say,

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Speaker 3: by your own admission, you were ripped a beep and

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Speaker 3: pieces over over your vaccination musings. And I kind of

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Speaker 3: at the time I understood what you were trying to

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Speaker 3: get out there, But at the same time it's probably

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Speaker 3: one of those things when you have a public profile

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Speaker 3: that you don't want to mention that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I got where you were going with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think at the time there wasn't No

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Speaker 1: one was saying that. No one was saying that they

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Speaker 1: were hesitant, and no one was saying they were nervous

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Speaker 1: or anxious. Everyone was just happy to get it. And

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Speaker 1: I thought, oh my goodness, what's wrong with me? Why

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Speaker 1: am I feeling so anxious? And you know, and I

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Speaker 1: think that there must have been so many other people

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Speaker 1: out there that felt like me, but no one was

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Speaker 1: saying it. So I thought, I'm gonna I'm going to

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Speaker 1: share how I feel. Probably shouldn't have.

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Speaker 3: Done that, but that's the thing because everyone thought, oh, y,

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Speaker 3: some sort of anti vac's nut, But but you're actually

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Speaker 3: not that.

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Speaker 1: No, not at all, Like I'm fully vaccinated now. Like

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Speaker 1: it was just it was more of the conversation there was.

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Speaker 1: I felt like there was no healthy and open conversations

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Speaker 1: being had about hesitancy about this brand new vaccine. And

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Speaker 1: also we were in lockdown for two years, like lots

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Speaker 1: of people, you know, lots of people were losing money,

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Speaker 1: and there was financial stress and mental health stress, and

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Speaker 1: there was a lot going on. And it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: the vaccine. There was just I think there's a lot

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Speaker 1: pressure on people's.

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Speaker 2: Mental health during my time to Speaking of mental health,

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Speaker 2: you wrote on Instagram, I quit my dream job at

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Speaker 2: home and Away to look after my mental health. So interesting.

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Speaker 2: I just read a quote this morning that really resonated

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Speaker 2: with me. Just self care is not self indulgence, it's

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Speaker 2: self preservation. And I think finally we're coming to see

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Speaker 2: how important it is to look after ourselves. You seem

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Speaker 2: a very sensitive, normal human and you've, really you have,

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Speaker 2: from the earliest days on Telly, have copped love and

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Speaker 2: opinion and not always good opinion. It must have been

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Speaker 2: it must still be so hard, Sam, Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: I am a very sensitive soul, and you know, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes you will say that there's no space for people

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Speaker 1: with sensitivities like I do in the public arena because

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Speaker 1: they're like, wow, done you signed up for it. But

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think there is a strength

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Speaker 1: in vulnerability, and yeah, yeah, I quit my job because

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Speaker 1: I just needed to focus on myself and my health.

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, especially I'm always preaching to

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Speaker 1: people like prioritizing mental health, and you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: like I remember I was working on Home and Away

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Speaker 1: and I had my dream job I had a beautiful

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Speaker 1: home with my dogs, and I was very aware that

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Speaker 1: I'm extremely grateful and blessed for everything that I have

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Speaker 1: in my life. But I just was so upset and

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Speaker 1: so unhappy, and I wasn't living my life. I'd spend

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Speaker 1: my weekends crying in bed. I couldn't get out, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't I didn't have the strength to see my friends,

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Speaker 1: and I just wasn't living my life. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: what's the point in having these things? What's the point

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Speaker 1: in having a beautiful home and a beautiful job if

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Speaker 1: I'm not in my body and present and living. So

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Speaker 1: I decided to quit my job. And I've been in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne for most of the time since with my family,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like my soul's alive, you know. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh wow, Like it feels quite free and.

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Speaker 2: Just being Sam because it's a big deal to step

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Speaker 2: away from a dream job like that. And I don't

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Speaker 2: understand why people do make you feel if you're in

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Speaker 2: the public eye, you have to copy it. You're allowed

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Speaker 2: to be here separate to your job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So now that you've written the book Believe and you've

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Speaker 3: written this with your sister, is this your older sister

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Speaker 3: or your younger sister.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my old older than me. So yeah, she's she's

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Speaker 1: amazing and she's a youth mentor and she's really passionate

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Speaker 1: about mental health as well. So we've got a lot

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Speaker 1: in comment and yeah, so we wrote this book, and

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, even even reading it, the final book,

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Speaker 1: you know, I spotted a couple of mistakes. I was like, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I like, oh, you know, I'm not a right about my.

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Speaker 3: Book, but it's very you, Sam Sam Frost book Believe

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Speaker 3: is out now in stores and online. Believe by Sam

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Speaker 3: Frost dot com.

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Speaker 1: Sam, thank you, thank you so much for having me

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Speaker 1: and Amanda's