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Natalie, thanks for joining us today. Oh, thank you so much for having me.

I've been looking forward to this. Yeah, it's our pleasure. So how would you get us started by

telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Well, my name is Natalie Lou. I live in

South East London in the UK. and I have been writing about relationships and self-esteem for over 16 years on my website, BaggageRe claim.com.

And from there I've then, I've had e-courses and books and I do a podcast for the baggage reclaim sessions.

And all of my work is really about helping people to reclaim themselves from their emotional

baggage.

And so a lot of my work is with people who identify with people pleasing, perfectionism,

and overthinking. And these habits then interfering

with their ability to have healthy relationships, to, you know, have fulfilling careers,

and also actually just to like themselves and the life that they're living. And yeah,

so I do that through, primarily really through

the website and through the podcast. And it's very much really from sharing lessons that I've

learned along the way through my own experiences. I basically experienced somewhat of a personal

transformation and an epiphany, an awakening as such. And I really endeavored to

give back over the last 16 or so years because there's a lot of me's at there, basically.

Right. And I can respect your work because for the listeners out there who who've listened to

the TED Talk or read my book, they know

I'm a recovering people pleaser too. And so it's great to have you on as an expert in this

field. And so can you share a bit more about how you were able to overcome this and how it's

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