Hello and a very warm welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. Today, live from the Happy Place

Festival in Tatton Park, I'm chatting to Nick Grimshaw. When I was writing the book,

like I couldn't write it, like I couldn't sit down and focus and I was like surely this is the

easy bit because I'm just writing about what's happened and it was like spiraling again,

being like how did I do that go from old to doing the breakfast show and now I can't sit in my

kitchen and write it. It's something that it was when I left Radio 1, I was really trying to

discover and explore, like is that it do you have like one dream, do you have like one ambition in

your life or can you keep evolving and changing and setting new goals, big or small and achieving them?

Nick was on Radio 1 for 14 years, he'd always since he was a kid, wanted to present the Radio 1

Breakfast Show. It's a coveted spot and he did it hugely successfully. He achieved his dream,

but in 2021 he made the decision to leave the station, prompting him to rethink what his life looks

like. Part of that process was reflecting on it all in his autobiography Softflad, which you have

to say just like this conversation is both laugh out loud funny and incredibly thought provoking.

As I said, we had this chat with all of you gorgeous lot of the Happy Place Festival just

last week. Oh my god the sun was blazing, it was dreamy, I'm so grateful for that sunshine

and I think this was the most full the talk tent got all week and everyone was sort of bursting out

the sides of the tent onto the grass sat on bean bags and deck chairs to listen in, it was amazing.

So thank you so much for being there and if this is the first time you're here in this chat,

I hope you really enjoy it.