Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that wants you to

embrace exactly who you are. Today I'm chatting to Youngblood.

Everyone's always just been to me like, oh, he's just a little bit too, you know, I mean I'm never quite right, I think, in any scenario I've ever been in. He's always too loud, he's always too,

I've just always been like that and I think the fundamental basis of kind of what I've

based young blood on to start with I was just really like sick of it and I think

everyone in a position of power has almost said like you

know pull it back a bit and I think kind of any time I've done that I've regretted it.

Youngblood who were going to call by his real name Dom Dom, started writing songs when he was 10,

and he's really become the voice of an entire generation through his music

and his collaborations. And now, his bloody great book, which I'm incredibly excited to say is published by Happy

Place Books.

I'm over the bloody moon.

It's called You Need to Exist. And it's this amazing interactive and illustrated journal

for you to basically do whatever you want with.

You can cherish it and destroy it, whatever you want.

And it's gonna challenge you to explore all sorts of things like

your identity and what makes you different and where your darkness lies it's

absolutely brilliant this chat with Dom was so brilliant and interesting. I wasn't quite sure which

Dom I was going to greet that day and me. I've met Dom quite a few times now and sometimes he

comes in the room like a cannonball and it's like whoa it's an

explosive energy and other times he's not like that at all so I think today we got the

full spectrum of Dom he's really deep and thoughtful but also really excited

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