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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Marissa Miller, a journalist and editor covering health, nutrition, fitness, style, beauty, travel tech, and mental health, with work published in the New York Times, Women's Health, GQ, and other outlets.

Her latest book, Pretty Weird, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Other Oddly Empowering Lessons,

was released earlier this year from Skyhorse Books and distributed by Simon and Schuster, Marissa.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I am so glad that you are here.

I hope that the questions that I've

sorted out for us are sufficiently weird to fall within your remit, but I'm also looking to you

to bring additional oddness or goblinness to this conversation. Yeah, I love that you call them

weird questions because to me, they're not that

weird. They just kind of accurately encompass the human experience. I stand corrected.

We're all weird, rendering none of us weird. Yeah. I want you to be able to expand my

definition of weirdness today. That's my main goal is I would just like to leave today with a

greater sense of oddity than I entered with. And I think that that's a pretty reasonable goal

given our shared time together. Sure. I'm very much looking forward to our first question, not least because I love the subject line,

and I'm wondering if you would be so good as to read it for us.

Yes. Desperate to scream in public.

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