Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. Isabella, it is so great to have you back on the show because you know what, you're my

girlfriend and I love chatting it up but we're also colleagues and

professionals and we've shared some similar path this past year which I'm hoping

we'll get to talk to today so welcome back and congratulations on a number one New York Times bestseller book.

That just is amazing.

Aviva, thank you so much.

It's always so fun to connect with you and I'm a big fan of the work that you're doing in the world so it's

an honor and a pleasure to be here with you.

Thank you and back at you.

So let's just jump right in until like what you and I have been doing for the past year because I think that I

think that for our listeners getting personal is a really nice thing to do and we

we know where you to find your amazing thyroid

information and I want to talk about that but I want to talk about this past

year so you and I kind of started out on this path around the same time of getting into the internet

world.

You were in it a couple of years before I was and you already had a smashing success with your

book, but you were self-publishing it and even though that's a lot of work

that's a lot of a different demand than working with a publisher having external demands the

pressures to get a manuscript in on time, get your book

launch going, and a lot of people don't realize that when we are authoring a book,

it's not like the publishing company is doing

the marketing these days it's the author 99.999% fronting the money fronting

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