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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 from

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Speaker 1: wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time, so

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Speaker 1: 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, my Gangles.

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Speaker 1: Friday Diary potto. So the week that was in Byron

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Speaker 1: Bay also a book giveaway. I'm actually giving away two

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Speaker 1: books this week and to the person that won last week,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if your book has arrived here. It

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Speaker 1: should have actually, but I snuck a second book in.

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Speaker 1: So I'm getting a little bit excited about giving away books.

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Speaker 1: So last week I gave way two copies of Colleen Hoover.

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Speaker 1: It ends with Us and starts with Us. They're like

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Speaker 1: a beginning book and a sequel books. I thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's cool, And this week I'm giving away two copies

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Speaker 1: of Luke McLeod's book Every Day Enlightenment. It has just

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Speaker 1: come out. The tagline of it is why you don't

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Speaker 1: have to become a Monk for Meditation to Change Your Life.

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Speaker 1: I actually interviewed Luke on the pod about this book.

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Speaker 1: The episode hasn't come out yet, but the book is available,

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Speaker 1: so I figure it's New Year, New Year. This book

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Speaker 1: kind of like fits that genre. And then the week

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Speaker 1: that was so remember last week in Byron, I got

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Speaker 1: I've just been taking it super easy, honestly, because i

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Speaker 1: But we have had some fun things on We had

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Speaker 1: a friend's Bambino's birthday, he's one year old birthday. And

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Speaker 1: then our lovely friends Beckonchol took us to this incredible

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Speaker 1: a very famous, beautiful Degas station style, fancy pansy restaurant.

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Speaker 1: And I kept the menu, so I've got the menu

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, the thirteenth of January, my brother's birthday, fun fact,

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Speaker 1: and this is menu fifty seven, the year of the

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Speaker 1: Mango menu. So it started with seasonal stacks, Snacks, stacks

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Speaker 1: vegetables with Tasty Waste paste. So that was kind of

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Speaker 1: really yummy, kind of like tahini houmasy paste thing, but

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Speaker 1: it was green. Then we had salt bush and grilled

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Speaker 1: Then we had Potsville spanner crab, bamboo shoot, dessert lime

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Speaker 1: petty force is what we ended on too. It was amazing,

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Speaker 1: That was a really fun experience and just so fancy,

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Speaker 1: But it was really fun. It was really really good.

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Speaker 1: Now other exciting stuff. On January the twelfth, so last Friday,

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Speaker 1: Boss released an album. His writing name is ghost Laws

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Speaker 1: music for meditating, for breath work, for yogs plats, that

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Speaker 1: a review of every Day Enlightenment because we're giving it away.

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Speaker 1: And Lug McCloud has been on the pod as in

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Speaker 1: soph Monk's Batch, so Bachelourette with Soph Monk and then

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Speaker 1: wrote a book about it. It is published by Hardy Hashe.

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Speaker 1: jo What's written on the back peace, calm, mindfulness, enlightenment.

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Speaker 1: These are appealing concepts, but they never seem like they're

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Speaker 1: He's an everyday person. He's a son, a husband, a friend,

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Speaker 1: the first book is called A Court of Thorns and Roses.

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Speaker 1: It's by Sarah J. Mass and that's where the acronym

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Speaker 1: aqatars come from. But the other ones are like a

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Speaker 1: it's called the Akatar series. So the first book is

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Speaker 1: So it is dark fantasy with a little bit of spice,

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Speaker 1: I had never read fantasy before. When I read fiction,

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Speaker 1: it was either Trent Dalton stuff or Candais Fox stuff.

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Speaker 1: They're two of my favorite fiction authors in Australia and

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Speaker 1: researching them. And Candis Fox has written a myriad of books,

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