Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jamina Jamil, a podcast against shame.

I hope you're well and hope you're ready for the dynamite explosion that is London Hughes.

She's back on the podcast, she was here a few years ago when she and I were kind of just

getting to know each other and you loved her so much, you sent her and me loads of lovely

messages and now she's back because she's got a book out and it's called Living My Best

Life, which kind of documents the last 30-something years of her life in which she had had so

many huge highs and at times devastating loads, all of which she chronicles with exceptional

detail in this book in order to remind people that you get to be the master of your own

fate and that you shouldn't give up just because other people tell you to, she is currently

living her dream.

I mean, she has a Netflix special called to catch a dick, she is a great writer, she's

a great screen and film writer, she's an actress, she was in Fleabag, like no one can ever

say that that girl has not done above and beyond what she ever set out to and it's fascinating

to see how long, how much of her life she has known exactly who she is and who she's

going to be and she's fucking doing it and it wasn't easy and I think that's also an

important story to tell is to remind people that it's not easy.

So much of our culture is all about immediate wins or immediate food or immediate belongings.

Everything is quick, quick, quick, I need 200 channels, we have too much fucking choice

and everything happens too fucking fast and everything we see on social media makes

it feel like everything good happens overnight and that's really dangerous in my opinion and

so what I love about this book and what I love about her story and this episode is the

fact that we get into the nitty gritty of the relentless self-belief and determination

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