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#274 OLIVE series: Emma Sexton on Being Child Free By Choice (#1)

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to this special OLIVE mini series — all around the topic of my debut novel OLIVE which is out TODAY! In lieu of a launch party, I’ve decided to release this 4-part series on 4 different women’s varying experiences and attitudes towards motherhood, based on the topics within the book.


The novel centres around Olive and her three best friends, Bea, Cecily and Isla. Bea is a mum of 3 who loves her busy chaotic home, Cecily is newly pregnant feeling apprehensive and excited, Isla is struggling with her fertility and undergoing IVF treatment. Olive knows that having children is not for her and recently broke up with her longterm boyfriend because he wanted to try for a baby and she didn’t — and this book explores the obstacle course of adulthood, navigating key life milestones, and how their friendships grow and change as they each figure out their own paths 


Today's guest is Emma Sexton, talking all about childfree-by-choice life. She is a design entrepreneur, creative strategist, speaker and coach - and founder of her own creative agency in 2013. We talk about her figuring out her own path, the things people still comment on, why it’s something she’s always known from a young age, and why we should talk about it more!


You can follow Emma here: https://www.instagram.com/misssexton/?hl=en


Thanks for listening and you can now buy OLIVE from your favourite retailer.


Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/olive/emma-gannon/9780008382728


Hive: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Emma-Gannon/Olive/24224499


Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Olive-Emma-Gannon/dp/0008382727/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570034665&sr=1-5&tag=smarturl-gb-21



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Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete and welcome to this very special

1:07.4

mini-series that I'm doing all around the topic of my debut novel

1:12.4

Olive which is out today and I am

1:15.1

recording this on July the 23rd 2020 in lieu of a launch party sadly I've

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decided to release this four-part series featuring four very different women's

1:25.8

varying experiences and attitudes towards motherhood based on the topics of my book

1:31.2

Olive. My novel centers around Olive, the protagonist, and her three best friends, B,

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Cessily, and Eilah. B is a mum of three who loves her busy chaotic home.

1:41.5

Cessily is newly pregnant, feeling apprehensive and excited.

1:46.0

Eilah is struggling with her fertility and undergoing IVF treatment and Olive knows deep down that

1:52.3

children is not for her and we start the book with her

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