Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by

and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I am joined by writer,

presenter, stand-up comedian and bestselling author, the brilliant Viv Groskop.

Today I want to talk about confidence and in fact I can think of no better person to talk to about this topic. And I also want to

talk about happy high status. So what that is, what that means and how we can all learn to be

effortlessly confident. Welcome to the show, Viv. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm

thrilled to meet you and have this conversation. I've been looking forward to this,

especially as you've been accompanying me on my morning runs recently as I've been listening

to Happy High Status. Yeah, love that. I mean, you totally embody that kind of power hour. I think

that is not how I spend my power hour, but I know lots of people do listen to me on my podcast to How To In the Room when

they're running and I love that I feel like I've been for a run with them even though I haven't

been for a run at all. Yeah and I think for me I've been doing this for years you know I listen to a lot of

books on audible and it's just really really changed my life. I never ever was kind of, you know, at school,

I was never a bookworm. My sister was, she was the one with, you know, academic stacked books.

And I always used to find that for me to sit and concentrate, I'm quite easily distracted. So I'd read a few pages.

And then if I was on a train, for example, my mind wanders. And I think, oh, I don't know what I've just read. Whereas when I listen to books, as an audio learner, I can listen to a book in a week, because obviously when she condense it down,

if you're running every day or walking every day, and I was going through book after book after

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