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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it, the anxiety podcast, with me, Caroline Forin. This week, I am thrilled to be joined by author and my dear friend Louise O'Neill, which is the author of four books. Most recently, she brought out the surface breaks, which is a feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid, which we all know and love from our childhood.

Louise is just incredible. We have such an amazing conversation about anxiety in all the different ways it's manifested for her and everything that she does to this day to keep it in check.

And she has so much wisdom and so many tips and so many really interesting ways of looking at things. And I'm her pal so I could have sat there all day. It's really one of the longest

podcast I've done. So I'm not going to go into what we talk about because I'm going to leave that

for you. Before I let you go, I just want to remind you that there's still tickets available to my

publishing masterclass, which is on July 20th in the Alex Hotel, and Louise will actually

be there with me. She's going to be my special guest, along with Holly White, who was a recent

podcast guest. And also, something that's come to my attention is that people who find the

podcast and love the podcast and message me to say they've found it really helpful aren't necessarily

aware that I have two books out that cover the

topics that I'm discussing in the podcast in book form. So owning it was my first book. It was all

about managing anxiety. And when that came out, it went to number one straight away for 16 weeks

here in Ireland and is now available around the world in different countries. So if you are finding

the podcast helpful, I'll put the

link to the book in the little description. I think they do work really well together to have the book

to refer back to and the podcast to listen to. And the second book is called The Confidence Kit.

And there are topics in that book that I'm going to go into a little bit more as time goes on

the podcast. And that's more about the fear of failure, imposter syndrome, why we feel fear. So lots of information in there in both books and thank you so

much for your feedback. As always, the reviews mean the world to me because it just bumps

a podcast up on the list of charts so people can find it easier and any feedback is so much

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