Hello! How are you? I wish I could hear your answer, but I'm hoping that you're sort of nodding or letting me know that you're okay.

I am very excited to bring you today's guest. She is a great stand-up comedian and a writer and an actor and just an all-round legend.

I'm talking about Ashling B. She is such a funny and honest and compelling human being and got so personal with me to the point where we're going to be

both cried at the end of this episode which was very unexpected. I learned so much about her, I learned so much about her experience.

She's been through a fair amount of trauma as a child and takes us kind of through how that has impacted her later in life.

She talks to me about mental health and anxiety and loneliness in a way that I have never really had someone talk to me about their own personal experience with it.

The whole point of this podcast is just to try to make all of us feel a little bit less alone and a little bit more connected.

Which is actually why, from now on, I'm going to start including members of the I-Way community in this podcast.

I love this community and you, while I hope that I have been helpful to you, I cannot tell you how helpful you have been to me and how you have held me to be accountable for my own mental health

and for how I speak to myself and speak to others and without your messages and support and all your signatures on all of my petitions.

I wouldn't have been able to get any of the things done that I have achieved. All of this has been a group effort that I couldn't have done on my own.

And so I would like to hear more from you. I love your I-Way pages so much on social media and I would like to hear them on this podcast so we can start to make this more of a rounded experience.

It's really important to me to know how you're feeling and how you value yourself and I learn from you in the things that you pick out about what is important about your life and what you're going to look back on your deathbed and remember about yourself.

So if you want to leave your I-Way verbally on this podcast, you can leave me a voice mail at 818-660-5543.

Or you can email me on iWaypodcast at gmail.com.

I'd love to hear from you and we're actually showcasing our first one at the end of this very episode.

Please join me in falling madly in love with Ashlingby, such a legend, so unique.

You can watch her on the telly in this way up a show that she wrote and starred in.

That is about mental health and living with depression and what that's like not only for yourself but for all the people around you.

We discussed that a little bit in the episode but just have a lovely sit back and a cup of tea and some cake and enjoy.

How do you feel? Do you feel okay? I feel okay. Yeah. Good. Do you feel ready?

Feel overly confident of anything. Feel a bit arrogant.

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