And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you

can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and today's is a bonus episode.

It's an interview with Matt Rudd.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hey everybody.

Like I said in my last episode, I've reached out to a few trusted folk, who I think you

can gain some benefit from soaking up some of their

wisdom and experience. And one of them is the writer Matt Rudd, who I chatted to a couple of

weeks ago. Matt is a senior writer at the Sunday Times. He's a published author of both fiction

and non-fiction. And his latest book, Man Down, Why Men Are Unhappy and What We Can Do About It, is out right now.

But after a little while, I bought it the day that it came out, and I thought it had some brilliant things to share with you all.

So I invited him on to the show for a little chat.

In it, we discuss mental health stigma, dismantling the rat race,

and even parenting practices, have a listen. Hello Matt. Hello to you. Hello, Richard. How are you?

Very, very well. I contacted you through Twitter because I bought your recent book, Man Down.

Well, that's one sale. Thank you.

Oh, I think it's doing quite well, isn't it? I mean, at the minute, it's right at the very end of September.

So it's only been out for a couple of three weeks.

I bought it about two weeks ago, I think. And it's, it must be doing well because it's,

it certainly deserves to. It really was an enjoyable read quite, it's got, it's got these funny

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