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Hello, I'm Myling Class and welcome to my new podcast. They don't teach this at school.

So come on, how many times have you said that? How many times you felt so under-equipped

for what life has thrown your way? Well, in school, if you think back, we learned about

Pythagoras, cells of a plant, how to analyse prose.

But then we went out into the big old world and we were expected to know how to budget for a household,

set up a bank account or know what to do when the boiler broke.

We were just, well, expected to know everything.

There were so many gaps in the curriculum and, well, so much I wish we were taught.

So, that is how my book and this podcast was born. I'll be speaking to some brilliant guests

to share their tips on how they and their families survive life's challenges. I'll be speaking

to Amanda Holden. I thrive on being underestimated and I say to

my children, good. If you're underestimated, that is fantastic because that means you can win. Because

no one's expecting you to. Lauren Leuverne. When I was a teenager, I joined a band so I didn't end up going to

university. And I sometimes joke that I was like partly raised by Rodees.

So I would say...

How did that go for you?

Well, it was mixed.

I'll be speaking to Catlin Moran.

I started being perimenopausal about five years ago just before we started talking about

all this stuff.

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