Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast. My name is Scrubius Pip. Thank you for tuning in to episode eight of the distraction pieces podcast. We've got a great guest today.

I've had a lot of people asking obviously I say at the start and at the end often if you've got any requests for guests, give me a shout on Twitter at Scrubius Pipio or on Facebook or wherever.

And on Instagram and on Twitter, I've had a few people say have I got any plans to have any female guests and my answer is always no because I don't plan based on sex.

It always strikes me as an odd question. If you've got a specific female guest you'd like to request and go right ahead as I mean this week's guest is indeed by chance our first female guest but she wasn't chosen because she's a girl she was chosen because she's got an amazing story and in my opinion is an amazing human.

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But on to this week's podcast we have got a young lady with an absolutely amazing story.

Earlier this year I interviewed her in front of an audience at Can Bestival and I world up several times the crowd cried openly numerous times.

She's an amazing individual I won't go into too much detail I'll just allow her conversation to let you in on that.

So enjoy I'll be back at the end with more details of next week's show and a few bits of information so stick around at the end but for now this is the distraction pieces podcast episode eight with Jo de ambically.

So we are recording how you're doing I'm good I'm here with Jo de ambically how's how's how are you on this rainy day in Birmingham I'm pretty magnificent actually I'm pretty well how you doing I'm good with this is one that we're upstairs in a little hidden room at the hair and how and this is one of the first places that we met properly I think.

I think so because I think we kind of met over Twitter or Facebook or my space or whatever over email initially yeah but I'm sure the first time we properly chatted and hung out was when you booked me and polar bear and Ed Sheeran what a line up.

I know right and if you have us to come and play your was it speak up speak up speak up speak up it's all right and yeah we did that and that was the first time I met Ed.

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