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And thanks so much for being a loyal listener. Hello and welcome back to the big mood, little new show. I'm your host, Danny Lavery. And with me in the studio this week is

Fani Gupta, a speech language pathologist in Sydney, Australia. It's 7 a.m. where she is. I just want

you to know her dedication to helping people with their problems is significantly higher than

mine. Because if I had had to get up at 7 a.m. to help people at any point throughout having

this job, I would have helped know people. So there it is. She has a master's in creative writing.

She's now doing a research degree looking at how children talk about their own experiences.

Bonnie loves dogs and books and giving unsolicited advice, which is actually going to hold you back

today because all of this advice is very much solicited,

but I hope it's not too limiting a factor.

Thanks, Danny.

Well, it is going to be a change because I often don't have to give solicited advice.

Well, I hope that there's not too much different.

I suppose the biggest difference is you can allow yourself to go on a little bit longer because you've, you know, you've got an excuse to do so.

That's right. Well, going along is not a problem for me either. I love to give advice. I love to repeat myself. And hopefully it'll be helpful to the letter writers today.

Yeah, I hope so too. I'm interested in today's

episode, especially because there's a fair amount of, some of them are updates. One of them has a

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