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Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Alex Holmes. He's an award-winning

podcaster and writer from London. He's been hosting and producing podcasts since 2016,

including Mostly Lit, which was named by the Guardian and the BBC as one of the top podcasts of

2017, and it won the Best British Podcast Award at the 2018 Awards. He now hosts the brilliant

podcast Time to Talk, which focuses on mental health. He also has a book out now,

also called Time to Talk, How men think about love, belonging, and connection,

and the book debunks lingering myths around masculinity, love, and connection by exploring what

causes this sense of loneliness. Sharing his experiences as a young British black man,

Time to Talk is a love letter to all the men who have lost their way and to the women that love

them. It's a really fantastic book. I learned so much from it and I loved how much he debunks

all the man myths in the book, and he encourages us all to open up and share

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