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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, I

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Speaker 1: have been promising you a book BTS special Friday series

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Speaker 1: for quite some time, and it is officially coming to you.

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Speaker 1: So the book Fearlessly Failing, my leventh book, is out now.

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Speaker 1: It is available. It is out everywhere in all good bookstores.

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Speaker 1: It's at Big w It's at Target, it's at Kmart.

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Speaker 1: I saw it at Kmart today. It's on book Toobia online,

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Speaker 1: so it's out in the wild. And I wanted to

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Speaker 1: do a podcast special around the book. So this is

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Speaker 1: part one of a three part series that will come

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Speaker 1: out on Fridays in the place of the diary episode.

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Speaker 1: So don't worry. It won't affect the Monday guests at all.

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Speaker 1: You just won't get a diary episode for the next

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Speaker 1: three weeks. You'll get a little BTS and taste of

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Speaker 1: the book. So this is how the structure of it

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Speaker 1: is going to go. Today will be a little bit

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Speaker 1: more of a BTS and a little bit of the

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Speaker 1: introduction of the book, and I'll go through the structure

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Speaker 1: break down all of part one of the book. The

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Speaker 1: two of the book. So hopefully it gives you a

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Speaker 1: little taste if you're kind of like uming and a

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Speaker 1: get it, it might give you a little taste of

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Speaker 1: the book. And yeah, I think it's just interesting to

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Speaker 1: know a little bit about behind the scenes of the book.

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Speaker 1: So this book is called Fearlessly Failing It in a way,

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Speaker 1: it was birth from this podcast. Matt reminded me that

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Speaker 1: when we started this podcast, he was like, you know this,

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Speaker 1: So I forgot that we even had that conversation two

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Speaker 1: so I'll take it away. But first of all, thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. These Friday episodes, as you know if

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Speaker 1: little bit shorter than the long form interviews that come

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Speaker 1: out on Mondays. So introduction today on our menu is

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Speaker 1: about me and to kind of tell you what the

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Speaker 1: book is. So behind the scenes. I signed the contract

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Speaker 1: for this book about eighteen months ago. That's a bit

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Speaker 1: longer than usual for me in the pastor in the

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Speaker 1: past i've written cookbooks and nutrition books and yoga books

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Speaker 1: even today I went into Big W and I was like, yes,

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Speaker 1: we've got the book is called Filthy Failing Overcome fear,

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Speaker 1: following Friday you are going to get a third EP.

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Speaker 1: So these are three behind the scenes of the book

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Speaker 1: mega mega love and it's out now, so if you

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Speaker 1: feel like getting it, that would be amazing and I

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Speaker 1: would love that And it means so much. There is

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure to make a book fly after

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Speaker 1: you've convinced people that you can do one and write one.

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Speaker 1: So thank you to everyone that's already gone out and

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Speaker 1: bought it. And it means so so much to me.

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Speaker 1: Big love Bye,