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Hello, I'm Alstraski and I'm a writer of Mental Health Advocate and I turned in the first

draft of my next book, baby. Hi, I'm Gabby Dunn. I'm a writer, bycon by

sexual icon, wink, and karma is my boyfriend. Karma is a god. Oh no. You turned in your book.

I did. Amazing. You did it. What a relief I got to tell you because that was some tight deadlines

I was facing. Yeah, for those who have not listened before, you wrote this book in four months

after researching for like a year, right? I started researching in March and because I was delayed

in my process because I had intensive knee surgery and moved. Yeah. And then I started writing

in August and I turned it in a couple of days before December 1st, which was my deadline.

Oh my god. So it was pretty intense, but I think what was good was that I just never let myself

think I couldn't do it. Okay. Well, this is a lot, but I'll do two chapters a month and I'll

just do it. And then I just like never even allowed myself to question that not being the case.

This is what I respect about you so much is that like if you're given a task, you're like,

I'll just do it. Like you don't have, you're not like overthinking. You don't have a lot of like,

like you maybe you are, maybe you do have self doubt, but it doesn't come through in like your

ability to complete a task or your ability to like finish a project. Like you are someone who

like, and that's literally the whole reason that we even like have a show and that we started in

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