Hello, I'm Mini Driver, and I'm

excited to be returning with the rest of Season 2 of my podcast Mini Questions next week.

I had to take a little break because my book, Managing Expectations, came out, and I had to go and talk about it in the US and in the UK.

And it was amazing. And if you haven't read it, read it or listen to it.

I can't wait to share this brand new round of guests and how they answered our seven questions.

So in the second half of season two, my friend

and we just co-starred in a movie together and he is the most amazing person, Simon Pegg, is one of my

guests. Happiness is a continuum which includes despair and everything, you know, because you

can't have happiness unless you experience the other stuff as well.

So you need those things as part of your happiness. You know what? I think back to the birth of my

daughter and I was actually in the midst of quite a crisis at that time personally. I remember those

four days in the hospital and she was born on the 1st of July, so we were still in there on the 4th.

Sitting on the little windowsill where I was sleeping and watching the fireworks and having this new little life it was like a little bubble of

happiness inside a period where I was very very unhappy author and psychotherapist and grief expert

julia samuel is another guest the first line of a roadless travelled was life is difficult.

And I thought, hang on, no one ever told me that, although it had been my entire life,

but somehow it's the secret that no one had said.

It's normal that it's difficult.

Not like I'm struggling through it and I'm the one that's failing and everyone else has got it sorted. Oh, life's difficult. Right. Okay. Boom.

The legendary iconic actress and model Brooke Shields. When I lost my first child, I lost a lot of my youthfulness. By that next day,

I remember thinking, oh, you're an adult now. You know, I immediately went to my fault. Of course,

it had to be my fault. And it was really important for me to learn. I didn't take too many yoga

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