Welcome back to the Boss Babe podcast. It's been a while. My goodness. Actually, right before I just sat down to record this episode with you, I just received the most special package. So interesting, because I was sitting down to record and my assistant texted me saying, I know you're recording a podcast, but you really need to come out here. There's a package. So interesting, because I was sitting down to record and my assistant

texted me saying, I know you're recording a podcast, but you really need to come out here.

There's a package here for you, which she never does. She would never just interrupt me in a podcast

and say, like, come and grab a package. And I genuinely had no idea what it could be. And I just

ran through and she was like, I'm going to film you.

I think you need to open this. And I thought, what could this possibly be? I genuinely had no

idea. And I opened it. And it was multiple, multiple, multiple copies of my brand new book.

And I burst into tears, like ugly cried and it arrived on one of

these days where I have just been questioning my goodness can I do it all there's a lot on my

plate with these babies and businesses and all the things and it was one of those days where I just felt like,

oh my goodness, my plate is really full. And it's, I'm starting to question, is this all possible?

And seeing that book come through was just such a big reminder that I'm in the arena. I'm doing

the thing. And yes, it might feel hard some days, but I'm freaking doing the thing. I'm launching a book. I'm bringing a book out. The book is coming into the world. June 9th. I can't even believe it. Also, maybe I should say book, for those of you that don't understand my accent, because someone was telling me the other day I recorded a podcast episode about Instagram hooks and they were like,

what's a hook? It's a hook, an Instagram hook at the beginning of your video. So maybe I should say

book. I'm launching a book. It's crazy. Anyway, let's dive in. Welcome back to the podcast. I know it's

been a while. So let's just start off with my my goodness, I didn't expect to take seven months.

So before I left, I had said to you all, you know, it doesn't feel right for me to be releasing

episodes during my mat leave, pretending that I'm recording when I'm not. It also felt like a lot of

work to batch record a ton of episodes. I just

wanted space. I didn't know what this next maternity leave was going to look like. You can never

predict what birth is going to look like. And so I just kind of wanted to go with it. So

here's how it went. My business made $2.2 million while I was completely offline in the three months I took for maternity leave. No podcast. You know, I was not doing any calls. I was not coaching my team. I was just offline. I had my baby. I went quiet. And the business really performed. And I remember on my last episode, I was saying, I'm not going

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