Hello, I'm Fern Cotton, welcome back to Happy Place, the podcast where I delve into the lives of others and learn hopefully how they keep their shit together.

Now you find me at home in my happy place on a rather glorious snowy day. My kids are playing in the garden, you might even hear them squealing with joy in the background.

Now this episode, let me tell you about it, I've just listened back to it and Dawn French, oh my goodness what a joy she is.

So full of honesty and wisdom and just tells her story so eloquently, I know you're just going to love it.

I sort of skim life, you know, taking what I can at the high speed, unless I stop a bit and I've only learnt that recently.

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So I am rather excited right now. I'm on a train with some snacks and my little magazines and my little notebook going through some lovely lush and stretching scenery to arrive eventually in Cornwall.

There are a few people out there that I properly admire and feel inspired by and this person I'm going to meet in Cornwall is certainly one of them.

She's someone that has reached heady heights of one career and now has gone on to completely master another. So she's gone from comedian to novelist.

It's quite swiftly and massively successfully. And what I really admire about this person is the fact that she's very, very authentic. She's definitely someone that I think makes got decisions and brave decisions and has a lot of self confidence in a really good way.

What I want to find out from her today is I want to sort of dig a little deeper into that self confidence and into that courage and find out how you get to that place where you can make those sorts of decisions.

So it's time to go knock on the front door of dawn French's house.

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