I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. My guest today is an incredible young woman. Francesca Specter approached me to be a guest on her podcast,

Alonement, and as soon as I understood the work that she does,

I immediately said, the only way is if you become a guest on mine.

So she is an internationally published online. if you become a guest on mine.

So she is an internationally published author of the book A Lohne,

How to be Alone and Absolutely Own It,

which is a concept that I think many of us struggle with.

We especially under lockdown and all of the time that we spent alone recently.

Alonment truly is an uplifting and celebratory guide of embracing being alone in a positive way. and Alonement is an uplifting and almost celebratory guide of embracing or to

embracing being alone and understanding why it's very different from being

lonely. It's been described as the joyous invitation to make your own declaration of independence.

Francesca is also a freelance journalist who worked as the editor of the lifestyle section of Yahoo

and then basically decided to go on her own and write long form lifestyle features for the

telegraph the guardian red and many other publications I hope you will be

interested in this very different view of what it's like to be alone today with Francesca Specter.

I received an email from Francesca inviting me on Alonment. And I receive a lot of emails to speak on

podcasts but oh my God I was like I love that concept like what is Alonment and

then of course as you know Google does to us I stalked her I found

everything about her online and I was like that's amazing because you guys may

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