Hey there. Welcome to drinking from the toilet, the podcast for real training nerds.

If you're looking to combine the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy

in real life, you come to the right place.

I'm Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, maverick, podcaster, and now author?

So I avoided writing a book for years.

Among other reasons, my training has changed so much over the last

10 years, heck, even in just the last two years, that the idea of committing to writing down

training recipes and techniques in actual print, like on real physical paper with permanent ink,

it was really intimidating. Not to mention my often discussed imposter complex,

who am I to write a book? I don't actually know anything. There are lots of people out there who are

better trainers and more successful competitors. They should be writing books. And also,

online classes are easier because I can change them as I go and as I learn more things, I can

keep them updated. But I do know that online materials aren't

for everyone, and it just isn't the same as holding a real physical book. I'm a reader and a book

lover myself, so I totally get that aspect of it. So after a lot of convincing and at the request

of the publishing folks at Sunshine Books and Karen Pryor Cleaver Training, I agreed to give it a go. And with the

encouragement slash nagging of my editor, friends, colleagues, students in my amazing book support group,

I pushed through and I finished this enormous project. One of the things that helps is that I'm

thinking of this as my first book. And like the first pancake, is maybe not

perfect. And that's okay. The hardest part, of course, in the whole process was deciding what to

leave in and what to leave out. I wanted to put in all of the things. I wanted to put in everything

that I know about how to train good and learn to do other stuff good too. But my editor and publisher tried to

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