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and you will be lucky you did.

You're crazy. and you will be lucky you did.

Chris Appleton, welcome the show.

Thanks.

We're very excited to have you.

Me too. I've been watching from afar.

Really? Yeah, it's just like a TikTok and stuff. I'll see the clips. Well, again, like I said, we're excited to have you. You have your new book coming out. Your roots don't define you.

Which first question, I always get fascinated as someone who wrote a book a while back. But I love the title of the book. Yeah. And I am curious how you came up with it, because I feel like when you're writing a book, you know, you're in it, you're writing, and then like you're just like, well, what do you think the title should be? And you're like, for me, that was a very, like, difficult process because it feels like so much goes into it. But I love the name. Obviously,

I love the play on words. So I am curious. Like, how did you come up with it? Did you have help with your team? I mean, it was kind of a combination of throwing ideas around, but it came up

pretty organically just because of the basis of what the book was about. But originally,

this wasn't the book. There was a different book I wrote originally, which was maybe what people kind of know of me from social media. Like, you work with celebrities, live books great.

And I kind of just felt like it wasn't really a real representation of me where I'm at. And so we really did it. And I started with some,

I guess stuff I thought I'd never tell anyone, like stuff that was once a real dark secret.

Yeah. So I have to say, it was pretty full circle moment doing the whole thing. And then really

the roots don't define you just came from the fact that it really does define so many people.

And in my career, I've seen it define so many people, like celebrities, models,

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