Hello and welcome to Happy Place. The podcast where I, Fern Cotton, discover how people who've got it all together got that way.

A huge thank you to the incredible response that myself and Chris Halinga got from last week's episode of Happy Place.

We've both been really blown away and we're so chuffed that you enjoyed the episode.

Thank you so much to Vic Lugre on Twitter who says,

I believe in hope, I believe in happiness, I believe in cups of tea. I love this quote from Chris.

Just the change of perspective I needed today. Thank you as ever Fern for a wonderful episode of Happy Place.

Absolute pleasure, Vic.

Thank you so much to Beth and Morgan who says,

Finish Listening to Fern's Happy Place podcast with Chris Halinga on my way home from work today.

What a strong, inspiring woman, really making me think harder about making the most out of every day.

Also, Chris has had some incredible messages. She texts me the other day saying that a teacher had scrapped her planned lesson at school

and got the kids to listen to the podcast instead, which were both massively touched by.

And also she had several women getting touched saying that they'd gone home, they'd copped a feel,

and they had found a lump and they were getting checked out at the doctors.

Hopefully everything will be fine but really good just to go and get things checked out anyway.

So we are absolutely thrilled and touched that the podcast has made such an impact.

So that was last week. This week we meet Mr Russell Brand.

The wound, some say, doesn't ever go, but the wound can become a south from the wound.

That can be your portal to connection. It can be your connection to a higher self.

This is a deep and old mythic theme that from the wound comes salvation.

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But I'm sorry, we can't help you get this song out of your head.

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