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Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Now, Tess has sent me a text message and this feels like some kind of message because actually the one thing I'm excited to talk about today, something I've been working on for a couple of years.

I've written a new book and it's out for pre-order today. It comes out in July and it's called Unscript, the radical act of being yourself.

And it's about something very,

very dear to my heart, which is about how we connect to each other and what gets in the way to

deeper, real connection. And one thing I've noticed, and I know that you all would have noticed

this as well in your own lives as well, over the last couple of years, we are becoming more

and more disconnected. As we spend more and more time online, we're losing like this muscle that we

have to connect with each other. And the more time we are online, we think we're being social.

And if you really think about it, social media, it's actually that social. It's more about

the algorithm wants us to stay in the algorithm, and it feeds us

division and anger. It's not about true connection. That is not where true connection lives in front

of each other. We're losing this. And the one thing about why I think radio is a magical,

magical media more than TV or anything else is that. Radio is about right now.

And the radio we do and the radio you hopefully like listening to. And we've heard this to so many

stories from you guys day in, day out. Is this a chance to actually drop the performance that most

of us do in all of our lives? There was a point before I decided to move to Australia and really changed our lives where I was driving home from a radio show. I'd done four hours. I took for four hours. I built that show out. They had two and a half million listeners. And you know, sometimes you catch yourself in the mirror. I was stuck in traffic, which was every day in my life in London. And I looked to myself in the rearview mirror, and I looked away because I suddenly realized you actually haven't said anything for the last four hours that you actually meant. I'd realize I was performing a version of myself. And I think this happens to a lot of us. We're performing a version of us house. And it wasn't just a work. I'd realize it was starting to creep into my home life as well

so I made it I'm also realized how exhausting it is to keep up this performance of a version of yourself

and again social media's great there's so many great things about social media but what it also shows is

is a fake version of people and it thinks it makes us think that we need to be some perfect version

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