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Hi, it's Jesse. Coming to you on an American holiday. It's Memorial Day here in the

U.S. And the Hello Monday team is off. Hopefully resting and recharging, probably not on the kind of vacations we took last year, but still, off.

So I got together with our producer, Sarah Storm Storm to go back through the archives and

find you one of our favorite episodes and it didn't take long. Sarah, who did we

choose? We chose Roxanne Gay because she's somebody who speaks really personally I think to both of us and

we thought that she had so many clear takeaways for our listeners both on craft and discipline

when it comes to writing and on mentorship both being mentored and being a mentor.

She's a feminist in every breath unapologetically and I have to tell you Sarah I'm not

usually nervous when I come to tell you, Sarah, I'm not usually nervous

when I come to a conversation.

I just love talking to people.

But with Roxanne, I was so nervous.

I think you can hear it in the tape.

It's understandable. I think you both sound fantastic but I get it I sent an email to be like hey

we're re-erring this episode and was like be cool be cool I don't think I was cool.

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