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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: from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,

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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. Welcome this

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Speaker 1: is your diary episode. Yeah, la diary podcast episode. Basically

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Speaker 1: it is just not day in the life, week in

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Speaker 1: the life. So what's happened over the last week here

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Speaker 1: in the City of Angels, Los Angeles. So I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you about like food, I've tried, stuff I've done,

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Speaker 1: healthy things, I've found, experiences I've had and kind of

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Speaker 1: just share them with you here. Very different to the

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Speaker 1: Monday episode. The Monday episode is much more interview based,

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Speaker 1: and we had the incredible Hugh Van Kyleenberg on the

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Speaker 1: pod on Monday, and I want to give a shout

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Speaker 1: out to both of his books in this episode, which

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I've already read and reviewed for you,

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Speaker 1: but I just want to make mention of them again

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Speaker 1: because there's such a good little, you know, pocket of inspo.

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Speaker 1: I was going to start with food experiences because I've

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Speaker 1: new hike. It's called Les Leones and which is kind

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Speaker 1: But little did we know that we were going to

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Speaker 1: I'm usually not scared of snakes. That's not my usual vibe,

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Speaker 1: only because we've got them in Byron. Obviously, we've got

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Speaker 1: So same kind of goes for here with rattle snakes,

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Speaker 1: I think there's about seven types of different rattlesnakes here

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Speaker 1: So a lot of people, like a lot of Americans

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Speaker 1: it physically, So I'll try and do that in the

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Speaker 1: next week so I can give you a road test

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Speaker 1: of the Gwyneth Paltrow Goop Kitchen, which sounds amazing. All right,

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Speaker 1: Mega Mega love, Go out do the stuff that scares

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Speaker 1: you and chase your dreams. Boy,