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to chase down our goals. Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.

I'm ready for my close-up. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you are here. Okay, this

is going to be a little different. You know, I'm always trying to innovate and do something

different. I need your feedback as always. Let me know what you think. Okay. If you've

been listening to the show for a while, you know that I auditioned. First of all, Harper

Collins leadership made me audition to be Heather Monahan. Isn't that weird? I think it's

weird. I feel that the author of a book should have to do the audible version, right? You

wrote it. Why can't you read it? Well, super interesting. I guess that's not the case. When

you go the traditional publisher route, you have to audition to be yourself. So bizarre.

Okay. So backstory is, I got really nervous right before and I text Kendra Hall, who she

did the audible version of her book. Stories at Stick. I've had her on the show. She's

amazing. And I said, what advice can you give me? I don't know what to do. They're not,

they didn't give me any advice. And she said, just be yourself and don't go too fast.

Great advice ever. And I love that she gave that to me and that she helped me out when

I needed it. And she was right. Just be you. So once I read that, I said, forget it. I'm

just clicking record and I'm going to just read it. And so I just read a couple of chapters.

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