Hello, welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is episode number 137. I'm Brooke. Very, very glad that you are here, Benjamin. Yes, and as am I.

Glad that you're here. Glad you're here. Oh, thanks. No worries. So episode 137.

137.

You're going to share a conversation that you had a little while ago.

Yeah.

I actually recorded this before Christmas.

Did you?

I did.

The Miracles of the podcasting.

Usually we're like a week or so out, but this was, you know, a good couple of months.

But one of my favorite conversations that I've had in a long time, actually, I speak with a woman named... Thanks very much.

You're very welcome.

Jessica Mernan.

So Jessica is... She's got a book that is coming out, well, it's out in the States as of yesterday,

I believe.

But in Australia, it's currently available for pre-order.

We've got all the details over at slow your home.com slash 137 but her book is called one part plant and it's well

it's essentially a plant based cookbook but what I love the most about Jessica's story is where

she's come from and her why so she was was a few years ago very, very unwell.

We talk about this quite a bit in the conversation,

but she was diagnosed with endometriosis.

What's that?

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