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Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Two weeks time,
Speaker 1: two weeks today, Big day for me. Super excited. The
Speaker 1: book that I've been working on for the last couple
Speaker 1: of years finally comes out on the twenty ninth of July,
Speaker 1: is called Unscript The Radical Act of Being Yourself, and.
Speaker 2: I'm having a first ever.
Speaker 1: This is the fifth book I've written, and I've been
Speaker 1: asked before to have book launch parties and I've always
Speaker 1: said no, I haven't felt like it was the I
Speaker 1: don't know, this wouldn't it didn't really appeal to me.
Speaker 1: But this time the radio station is doing a lovely
Speaker 1: thing for me. They're throwing me a book launch party,
Speaker 1: which is a really kind thing to do, and we're
Speaker 1: inviting you. So starting tomorrow we'll start to give away invites.
Speaker 1: About eighty of you can be. There's going to be
Speaker 1: in Melbourne and then next month I do one in Sydney.
Speaker 1: But the first one is going to be on Monday,
Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of July. Were going to a beautiful
Speaker 1: venue as well. Three hundred and sixty degree views of
Speaker 1: the city as well. And Rio is actually one of
Speaker 1: the In fact, you're the first person on the team
Speaker 1: to read the book. I mean obviously you were. You
Speaker 1: had a long train of long and long flights. You
Speaker 1: started reading the book.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've almost finished, mate, it is. It is so brilliant.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: It is not a book about even though it's obviously
Speaker 3: a book about conversations, it's not a book about, you know,
Speaker 3: being a brilliant radio host or being you know, a
Speaker 3: great broadcaster.
Speaker 1: Well, well, I wouldn't go to write that we got
Speaker 1: a time wrong an hour ago, and I've been doing
Speaker 1: it twenty eight years.
Speaker 2: I mean, who screws that up?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: It's about, hopefully you'll get in the sense of what
Speaker 2: it's about.
Speaker 1: It's about the joy of connection, storytelling, what what's happening
Speaker 1: moment as we're drifting apart from each other, the damage
Speaker 1: of that. And my aim for the book really is
Speaker 1: that halfway through it you get excited about having conversations
Speaker 1: in an easier way with people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so much of the book is about getting
Speaker 3: out of your own way. It's not about adding more
Speaker 3: things onto your plate or things to do it's actually
Speaker 3: taking things off your plate, getting out of your own way,
Speaker 3: and being able to have better conversations, better connections, better relationships.
Speaker 4: I actually noticed it helping me.
Speaker 3: I got a haircut on Sunday and I was, you know,
Speaker 3: thinking about the book, and you know the way you
Speaker 3: engage with people. I had the best chat I've had
Speaker 3: with someone in some time.
Speaker 2: That's exactly the impacts I want from it. I haven't.
Speaker 1: I was telling my wife and kids yesterday because they
Speaker 1: were going, is Rio enjoying it? I said, yeah, you
Speaker 1: came in Monday, was talking about it, and I said,
Speaker 1: the thing that I can't stop thinking about is you
Speaker 1: said you were surprised how vulnerable and personally is I mean,
Speaker 1: I've put everything into that book.
Speaker 4: Yes, I like because it really is.
Speaker 3: You know, the way that you see the world, it's awesome,
Speaker 3: very you know, some very personal and vulnerable moments that
Speaker 3: you've chosen.
Speaker 4: To share with everyone.
Speaker 3: And truly I was reading and I was so proud
Speaker 3: of you. I was like, Wow, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I would have the courage.
Speaker 4: To put this out into the world.
Speaker 3: And the fact that you've done it and it's in
Speaker 3: print and it's brilliant it's so wise, it's got so
Speaker 3: much heart to it. I think anyone, no matter who
Speaker 3: you are, no matter what your job is, no matter
Speaker 3: what point in your life.
Speaker 2: You're a lovely thing to say I thank thank you.
Speaker 4: That will get so much out of it. I'm so
Speaker 4: excited for this to.
Speaker 2: Be in the world. I'll tell you what it is.
Speaker 2: It's a book.
Speaker 1: Actually, you write at a certain age. I'm fifty three,
Speaker 1: and that's why I wanted to write this book. It's
Speaker 1: like I started to think about doing this when I
Speaker 1: was interviewing Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 2: A couple years ago.
Speaker 1: He brought a book out for the first time, his
Speaker 1: own book, and it was a lot of his routines,
Speaker 1: and midway through the interview, I suddenly realized, I think
Speaker 1: he's write this because he's of a certain age and
Speaker 1: he wants to leave something behind of permanence about.
Speaker 2: What did you do, what did you learn? What did
Speaker 2: you with your time here?
Speaker 1: And so I've been lucky to do this incredible job
Speaker 1: for twenty eight years now in two different countries, do
Speaker 1: different parts of the world, and I've learned so much
Speaker 1: about connections, storytelling and speaking. I felt like what a
Speaker 1: lovely thing is to write that down. My daughters will
Speaker 1: want to read it as well. What a lovely thing
Speaker 1: to have. This is what I've been lucky enough to
Speaker 1: learn and to pass on to people. I felt like
Speaker 1: it was the responsibility.
Speaker 3: It is if it really comes through like that, and
Speaker 3: I think, I think the impact is going to have
Speaker 3: on people.
Speaker 1: You seem almost surprised that it was wise. One of
Speaker 1: my daughters read a chapter and went, well, it's really
Speaker 1: surprisingly wise and that I shot, went, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: And she really she'd upset me and she went, well, no, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I guess you would have wisdom
Speaker 1: you're fifty three, but.
Speaker 2: I think you're saying we haven't. We don't see a
Speaker 2: lot of it. But the book you is hidden in
Speaker 2: there is a wise man.
Speaker 3: We spend half an hour at every day doing like
Speaker 3: monkey bands or something. Yes, I know there was a
Speaker 3: little bit surprising how deep and saved the wisdom was,
Speaker 3: but it is there.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, Well, I'm glad you enjoyed the book, so you
Speaker 1: can pre order it still for another two weeks. A
Speaker 1: book TOPEO on Amazon or dimis're going to be on
Speaker 1: to pre order it, and everyone is pre ordering. It's
Speaker 1: still the office Stoll there for the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: If you pre order it and you send me the
Speaker 1: receipt Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com today, you get
Speaker 1: ultimately invited as well to a YouTube live show I'm
Speaker 1: doing in three weeks time at home with Christian. But
Speaker 1: starting tomorrow we're going to give away the invites to
Speaker 1: come and join us unscript and uncork. You can have
Speaker 1: a glass of wine and Rio is going to be
Speaker 1: doing the Q and A. They asked me, who did
Speaker 1: I want to do the Q and A? And out
Speaker 1: of everyone I've worked with in my career, you are
Speaker 1: someone who I've seen go from joining this team. I
Speaker 1: hired you when you had no radio experience. You were
Speaker 1: hired to write a copy for social media posts. It
Speaker 1: was very clear when you lied that you were listening
Speaker 1: to the show, you hadn't heard a single show. But
Speaker 1: I just love this guy swagger and the audacity to
Speaker 1: lie to my face. Where this guy's got the core
Speaker 1: skills that you need to carve out a career and
Speaker 1: breakfast radio. And I've seen your journey to now being
Speaker 1: with me front and center on the show from where
Speaker 1: you were six or seven years ago. You're someone actually
Speaker 1: living proof about what happens when you do start to
Speaker 1: move closer to the true version of yourself and what
Speaker 1: the book is talking about.
Speaker 3: Unscript definitely, Matam, I'm truly honored to be there for
Speaker 3: that not and to be part of the Q and
Speaker 3: A and for me like coming through the show all
Speaker 3: of these things that I've learnt from you over the
Speaker 3: last seven years.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you have everything. Just keep learn the good stuff.
Speaker 2: What are the other stuff?
Speaker 3: So much of that comes through the book as well,
Speaker 3: and it was it's really really special.
Speaker 1: All right, it's cooled on script and we start to
Speaker 1: give away the invites tomorrow
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