The Entertainment Episode
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
I've fallen off the reading wagon in a big way, but I know I'm missing out so in this episode I pledge to get back on it and I'm starting with two great reads recommended by my friend Charlotte: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood and The Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron. Then we move onto The Power of Actor by Ivana Chubbuck that I heard about when RuPaul and Michelle Visage raved about it on their podcast.
I've also added the Audible version of Becoming by Michelle Obama to my reading list.
I'm halfway through To Live and Die in LA, the true crime podcast hosted by journalist and author Neil Strauss and I've enjoyed it up to a point...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emmagan show. I am your host Emmagan Awardner and in this midweek tip bit I'm going to be sharing all the |
| 0:15.5 | things that are keeping me entertained, smiling and intrigued. Yes that's right it's a |
| 0:21.3 | midsummer roundup of the podcast I'm listening to, |
| 0:24.0 | the films I'm watching and the books I can't get enough of once I get into them. |
| 0:29.0 | Speaking of, let's start with books, shall we? |
| 0:32.0 | If you follow me on Instagram and it's super easy you can |
| 0:34.4 | find me there as at Emma Gunn's then you'll know I often post pictures of the books I'm |
| 0:38.6 | reading or attempting to read. If you remember 26 habits from 2018 the project where I either made or broke a habit |
| 0:50.6 | over a two-week period for 52 weeks, then you'll know that one of the 26 habits was trying |
| 0:56.9 | to get back into the habit of reading. |
| 1:00.1 | And I've definitely fallen back off the wagon. Just yesterday a new book arrived on a day when I could safely give myself an hour in the afternoon to have a cup of tea and read and I didn't get more than two pages in and I couldn't tell you a single a single bit of it. |
| 1:18.7 | My mind was all over the place because I started checking my phone, getting distracted, |
| 1:24.0 | think remembering about an email that I had to send. |
| 1:27.0 | So it was just, I just had to report the mission basically. |
| 1:31.0 | And yet I look at my friends like Anna Newton from the |
| 1:33.6 | Anna Edit who is often talking about the books she's powered through in a day and I |
| 1:38.1 | realize how much I'm missing out on by not reading more like really missing out |
| 1:42.2 | on it I mean simply put that's what it is you're more out on |
| 1:45.0 | reading more, like really missing out on it. I mean simply put that's what it is you're missing out. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm missing out on insight from people who have had experiences that I haven't |
| 1:51.0 | or have experienced things in a way that I haven't that were better my |
| 1:54.2 | understanding of the world and my general knowledge and I am not engaging with it. |
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