Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jemida Jamil.

Oh, we're a week away from Christmas. Are you okay? Do you even care? Do you celebrate Christmas?

I don't care about any religious background of the day personally. I also find family

really intense and I don't like groups of more than five people so lockdown is kind of perfect for me.

I normally find myself around this time of year just helping out at local shelters

or sitting alone eating noodles watching Netflix having a fucking great time but I'm not sure

if that is your vibe and so if you are alone at the time of year I hope that's somewhat out of

choice and that you're okay. If not, as I've said before, we will get through this, we'll be

through this soon and we'll get out of this together and so please hang on and phone friends and

use zoom even though we're fucking all hate zoom by now and if you are spending it with family,

I hope that's okay because that's a lot isn't it? Sometimes they can be a lot especially this year.

The reason I've chosen today's guest is because I feel like she is the perfect person to just

make us all feel like it's okay, it's okay to not find everything easy, it's okay to struggle,

it's okay to be reflective of oneself and kind of pick yourself apart in ways that are just kind

of helping you construct who you're going to be next. I'm talking about Dawn O'Porter who is a

wonderful writer and host and she's someone that I've looked up to for the longest time. In fact,

when I first ever met my agent when I was 22 and I was about to become a TV host, she said,

who do you want to be when you grow up? And I said Dawn Porter because she says fabulous documentary

maker and just she's so funny and authentic and relatable and interesting and interested and I think

that's why so many people love her work. She has had a really, really difficult year. She lost one

of her best friends if not her very best friend in the world at the beginning of this year, the

beginning of lockdown and then the world just stopped turning and she ended up writing a book

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