And the Sophie Hagen, welcome to I-Way, how are you?

I'm good, how are you?

I'm so good. I'm all the better seeing you. You're just a very soothing human being. You're a

salve on my very stressful day and immediately in your presence I feel more serene.

How do you feel at the moment? Do you feel serene? Bringing out a book is really

intent, especially a very personal book? No, I don't feel serene. I think that would be a bit of an

overstatement. I feel, I am excited, I'm actually excited and also just it's it

just feels very vulnerable doesn't that you know it's different than doing stand-up because

you make a joke and a joke is in itself defensive, you know, it's

inbuilt defense, but this boogies is very, very honest and it's been written

over the course of quite a few years and then suddenly it's going to be out for everyone to read.

It feels like releasing a diary, a very honest diary.

Yeah, and it's extraordinary, hate the word brave, think it gets overused and used in the wrong capacities,

but I do think it's a very bold thing to do that is extremely admirable because when people put

out such personal bodies of work it opened up in other

people the ability they might not have had before to also face a similar thing

that they are you know going through and you have a history of

doing that through your stand-up and through your online presence because not

everything you say online has always just been a joke. You've also talked about

some important and serious things,

but I feel as though something that you represent to a lot of my friends in many different ways

is you make them feel safe to think about and talk about certain experiences that they have that society

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