Hey everybody, Felicia Day here and this is a special podcast announcement about my new upcoming book.

It's called Embrace Your Weird, Face Your Fears, and Unleash Creativity.

I am so excited about this book.

It is my follow-up to my memoir, You're Never Weird

on the Internet almost, and the reason I wrote this new book is because of that book.

So many people over the years have told me that after they read my memoir, they started creating things,

it really helped them with their anxiety, and I wanted to make a book that gave a lot more advice in those areas,

and it wasn't just all about me because quite frankly I don't have

any more stories to talk about except everything I complained about this

podcast. So inside this book there are essays that are similar to my

memoir but there are also a lot of advice, tons of exercises

that you, the reader, do along the way as you read, and also tons and tons and tons of illustration.

The aim of this book is to encourage people to figure out who they are

and what they want to say to the world

and help people channel that into some kind of creativity.

It also has a lot of advice on things like

anxiety, fear failure, procrastination, jealousy, all those things that keep us

from really showing who we are to the world. I don't know I just

love this book. I was proofreading it the other day and I was literally like oh you should

highlight that that's really good advice. Imagine me taking you to lunch and telling you how to get your voice out there in the world.

This is kind of that.

It's kind of like one of those friends who talks too much and tells you what to do and

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