The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Hey, this is Christian. Thank you very much to download in today's

podcast. I just want to say a few words. Thank you very much to all the amazing emails that I'm

getting for you who've got the book. But not only that, I'm being humbled and blown away by what

you're saying about the book. And the really exciting thing, isn't just that you enjoy the book,

it's that it's making you laugh and it's making you cry. And I'm just interested about the tears. What's that saying to you about my story that touches part of your story? And I love that. I never thought I'd get that with the book. The other big thing is just to say thank you about all the kind emails I've had since I shared. The day the book came out, I wanted to say, I wanted to

say, and then emotions, as they do sometimes, I guess if I hadn't spent seven years ever saying that

I'd ever had anxiety and panic attacks and that I put it in a book because I didn't want to keep

it quiet and like a dirty little secret. And as I'll keep saying to my teenage

daughters that vulnerability is a, is a super weapon. And I went, there's a story I've never told

anyone, my family, my best friends, even Richie, who I was working with at the time when I had these

about seven years ago, these awful anxiety attacks, panic attacks before the radio show.

And I couldn't do the radio show.

I would go into the station and have to leave.

I thought I was going to die.

And they're horrible.

However, the amazing thing is I had to go and get help and I managed to grow through it

and learn through it.

And then I started to realize what was going on really in my

life. I wanted to put it in the book because I thought it might help somebody like where I was.

And I also didn't want to be defined by anxiety because it doesn't define me. It might always be

around in my life and come bubbling back up, but I'm a lot better at dealing with it now. And that came through what happened seven years ago. And the amazing thing is, is that I still got to come to Australia. I still got to do all this.

It wasn't that we were running away from what happened. It still took another two years to

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