Hello listeners, I have a special bonus episode for you today. I was recently contacted by

TV legend Andrea McLean. Andrea has been working in the media for years, but recently made

the decision to take a life in a different direction, and she's created an online community

called This Girl Is On Fire, all about personal growth. This week is the launch of an app that accompanies it.

And so I thought it'd be nice to get her on the podcast to talk a little bit about it.

I hope you find what we say useful. I'll leave you to it and I'll speak to you again soon.

Tara!

So my special guest today is writer and broadcaster Andrea McLean.

Andrea was a loose woman for well over a decade on ITV and has presented so many other shows

it would probably take up the whole episode talking about it. She's a hugely successful household

name yet recently decided to rethink some things and practically walked away from

TV work, if not literally walked away from it, in order to promote well-being and self-esteem

things instead. So, Andrea, welcome to the podcast. Hello to you. Hello to you. And thank

you so much for inviting me to come and speak to you today. I'm really looking

forward to our conversation. After listening to some of the things that you've been talking

about and promoting, we seem to have a lot in common. We seem to be promoting some of the same

things. But you are coming at things with very much, even more so than most, a lived experience of some of the things that you're trying to promote.

I think what you're trying to do, which is correct me if I'm missing the point here, but it seems to be about, I think, self-esteem, well-being, not just not positive thinking, because that can be a little

bit toxic sometimes, but about thinking in general and creative thinking so that people can

see all the perspectives to stuff that's gone on in their life, because you've had a few ups and downs,

especially even recently, even lately in the last few years by the sound of things.

And you're ready to share that story, I think, by the sound of it.

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