Welcome to the Wabi Sabi podcast. This is episode number 99. Hi guys. I'm your host, Candice Koumi,

wellness journalist and seven-time bestselling author. My new book Spirited will come out in April of 2023. I turned in the final

pages last night. I feel great about the work that we're doing and I can sleep well at night

knowing that I do my best work with integrity and grace with you at the forefront in mind.

And this does not mean that I'm a goody two shoes and that I'm perfect or that I am the holier than thou voice. What Wabi-sabi is and

spirited to the new upcoming book is it's a homage to my lineage from Japan to the Buddhist ancestors that I have on one side of my

family to my Polish heritage in Eastern Europe or Central Europe, as my father says.

It's Central Europe, not Eastern. And also, I want to share my culture in two different worlds colliding, Japanese and Polish-American.

That's actually technically three.

So there's a lot of intersectionality where we will go in deep and enrich.

The whole point of this podcast, Wabi-Sabi, is to give you a little bit of a warm up of what you'll expect in my new Audible Original.

I have never signed an Audible Original deal yet.

So this is a new foray into the voice, the medium of learning through audible learning, and enriching your life through an author that didn't get a ton

of play on TV, but definitely has some juicy shit to say. And if they didn't want my name on the

roster, then I would find a place and put my name on the roster myself. So if you're like me and you're an underdog, you're overlooked,

you're talked shit too. People talk behind your back all the time. Keep going because you're

doing a great fucking job and I'm right here with you. Remember to leave the safe harbor. There will

always be haters and on your way to the top, nobody above you

will ever criticize your work, only those below you. Now, I do some fun stuff on the weekend,

but I also do a lot of personal enrichment. Whether that's drugs or having a good old wild night. I did take a bunch of weed

gummies and watch a ton of one of my favorite shows to watch is actually called the roundtables

on The Hollywood Reporter. You can find these on YouTube. They're free. They're genius. They're so well

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