Christian. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Hey friends, Christian here. Two reasons for

leaving this message for you. Apologies about no podcasts this week. I've actually been laid low with some

lurgy. Melbourne at the moment has about 1,700 different flus and bug variants for people to choose from which one they want to have.

So I've had some lurgy.

Although I suspect as actually rivals have tried to poison me.

But like the movies that are based loosely on my life, John Wick, you can't kill me.

And I will be back next week.

However, here's a collection of bits that they put out this week,

some of our favourite bits on the shows from the last few weeks and months,

in case you are missing the show, me, Jack and Pats.

Patsy's also been off with COVID.

She'll be back Monday.

So we're all back very, very soon.

And next week, as we go into the second week of September here in Australia,

is an amazing thing they do every year called Are You OK Day?

And this is a national day where people are encouraged to check in and open a conversation, start a conversation with family and friends, people at work, just to check in if there's someone you think might be having a tough time.

I think this is a lovely idea.

And what I'd love to do next week on the show is I think the stories that help us the most are the stories where people share where they were in a tough time and then what they did and how they got themselves out of that,

how they moved forward. I've learned this myself when I shared my stories about my panic attacks

and anxiety that I had a couple of years ago and just how many many emails I get still every day, year after book came out,

and how it's touched so many of you.

But the lovely thing for me is what it's done is you've then shared your stories of

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