It's so good to be here with you and connect and thank you for coming on the podcast.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here and get to actually speak to you for the first time.

Yeah, yeah, me too.

Yeah, hopefully it doesn't disappoint.

No.

Never.

All right.

Well that makes me feel confident. So I want to talk about your writing first,

and then we can talk about, you know, whatever you want. But I'm curious, like, what is your background? how did you get to a place where you you

you know picked up the pen picked up the the computer and actually started writing

it's a very multi-layered background. So I grew up in a very dysfunctional family. I come from a line of like addicts and a lot of

mental illness and you know like most of my family is deceased because you know

alcohol or overdosing and so I come from a very long line of suffering and I was always a very

very hypersensitive child so I picked up on all of the pain that was

going on around me and didn't have coping mechanisms.

I was never taught.

It was always, you know, you have a roof over your head and food in your mouth

and that's all that matters.

And yes, I was always grateful for that of course, but there was no room for nurturing or

learning how to cope or even acknowledge that. nurturing or

even acknowledge that I had emotions and

having difficult conversations, you know,

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