Welcome back to the podcast. It is the end of the year, year three of Power Hour. Thank you so much

everyone for listening each week and for supporting the show. Even after three years, the mission

remains the same. I want to encourage, to motivate. I want people to pursue their personal goals, their professional goals.

And when they listen to the conversations each week, of course, I want the listeners to feel

uplifted and motivated, but most importantly, to feel empowered to take action, to learn things

from this show and to take them into your daily life.

I think we've all needed a little bit of inspiration and motivation this year.

So let's take a look back and dive in to some of my favorite best bits of 2021.

I'd love to talk to you, Mel, about your new book, High Five Habit.

So I was lucky enough to read an early copy.

And one thing that you talk about right at the start of the book that really stood out for me was when you talked about the focus on self. So you talk about self-worth,

self-esteem, self-love, and the fact that these all start with the self. And almost this idea that we have to take responsibility for ourselves. I know that, you know, with a lot of the work

that I do and the people I speak to, they almost, they want other people to, you know, encourage them, other people to give them advice, other

people to give them support, other people to give them validation and approval and this person

will know what's best for me and maybe I should get advice from here or what about my parents

might think or my boss or my friend. And sometimes that idea that actually maybe you know what's best for you.

And that idea of self I really, really liked.

So why do you think it's so important that actually we start to take responsibility,

we turn and look at ourselves?

And if that's a really new thing for someone listening,

how can they start to practice that?

Okay, so it's a great question. You're absolutely right. All those things that we seek in life, self-confidence, self-worth,

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