Hello, this is Emma Ganon, and thank you for listening to this podcast. I just wanted to let you know that my new book, The Success Myth, Letting Go of Having It All, is out on May the 18th.

I think it's my best book yet, so I'm excited for it to come out. And the book unpicks the eight success myths from happiness, to money, to productivity, to celebrity, to the idea of finally arriving, and how chasing a version of success that doesn't align with your values can really take you off track.

And this book is about getting back to yourself, breaking free, finding a new way forward.

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Hello, and welcome back to Control Out Delete. This is a replay of my episode with Janelle Aldred recorded in 2021.

Janelle is a newsreader, communication expert, and now author who has worked as a journalist at the BBC ITV and ITN.

Her new book is called Communicate for Change, Creating Justice in a World of Bias. And it unpicks some fascinating themes, how to make a positive difference, how to agree, to disagree, how to think for yourself, how to have better conversations with people,

how to recognise our own biases in our lives and our blind spots. And in general, I feel like this episode and this book really help and give the reader some tools to basically navigate and communicate better through an ever changing world.

And a time that where life is pretty confusing, Janelle is the most amazing speaker on this topic. So I hope you enjoy.

I have wanted to speak to you about your book for so long. So I was very lucky to have an early read. So today's the day.

It feels like this spin like over it. Well, it has been over a year in the making for this conversation. So I am beyond excited because also you were amazing in helping me with my book in like some of the very tough.

Is this going to happen a moment? You were the person I messaged and the book lives on.

Thank you. That means a lot. And I know exactly how it feels, especially with the debut book and all the nerves and all the stuff behind the scenes. But it's so incredible. You should be so proud of it. And we're going to dig into it.

But for the listeners sake, I wanted to kind of give an overview of your career to date because you're such an incredible journalist communicator.

You are an expert in this field for over a decade. And I just I wanted to ask you a really broad question actually to start off.

What have you seen change in this landscape of communication over the last decade? I mean, that's a huge question. But you know, you talk a lot about what we see in the media is really sort of skewing our daily lives.

Do you have any thoughts on just the last decade?

The mobile phone, the biggest thing that I think has revolutionized just the entire space.

If you think that when we first had our mobile phones and we were playing snake on them, the phone didn't do anything besides play games and leave voicemails.

In the last decade, our phones have become a passport to the entire world.

There's literally nothing that you cannot do on your phone that before you could only do restricted at a desk and before that a desk in an office that you didn't always have access to everything.

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