Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dr. Tagrid al-Saraj.

Welcome, Tagrid.

Hello.

Glad to be with you.

Dr. Tagrid al-Saraj is the best-selling author of the anxious language learner.

The book is full of her personal experiences and struggles that led to her becoming a leadership coach

who has helped hundreds overcome foreign language anxiety.

So, Tagrid, that's a pithy summation of your story. Take us back and

tell us what you're doing now and what has you motivated and inspired. Well, as you just said,

I have my new book and this is the project that I just finished and it's just been released.

It took almost two years to get this book done, so that was a big project that I was working

other than as well continuing research in the same field.

What was special is that this book or this project had a lot of hands-on, you know, not just basic dull research, but what I had to do is put myself in my language students' shoes and actually learn a new language just so I could see what are the anxiety that they're talking about when we're doing interviews and research and when I'm

giving them surveys and what their answers were and so it was always getting it from other people

what the description how do I feel what's going on through my head but now I actually had to put

myself in that so that took a while That was a little over a year and a

half to do. So I'm just coming out of this project. You're doing doctoral work, right? Yes, I'm

doing postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley. This is something other than my other postdoc work. So I'm

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