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, and it's available on May the 18th. If you love this podcast, you'll love the book and it's available soon from all good bookshops.

So you can order yours now. I hope you like it.

Hello, this is a slightly different environment to be recording that I'm out on a walk and this is my last ever episode of Control of Delete.

It feels really strange to say that because as you know, if you've been following this podcast, I've been doing it for I think about six years now.

Since 2016, and it's been a real constant in my life, I've uploaded an episode every single week. Pretty much. So it's been routine. It's been fun.

It's been incredible to interview so many people. I've had so many experiences of being a lot of different locations, a very interesting people.

I'm obviously not going to list out every single person I'm interviewed, but if you followed from near the start, you'll know that I've chatted to over 400 people now, which is crazy, including personal heroes of mine, such as authors like Elizabeth Gilbert to Seth Godin and Julia Cameron, the creator of the artist's way was a really special one.

I've chatted to so many writers, I admire, like Renny Adolodge, June Saapong, Greta Gowig, Lena Dunham, to activists who have changed laws, to Oscar-winning directors and script writers, to actors like Jillian Anderson, Felicity Jones, Richley Graham, to experts, philosophers, psychologists, I feel like I've covered a lot of ground and a lot of topics.

And it's really broadened my life and changed my life for the better. So yeah, I'm going to be replaying some archived episodes over the next few months.

So if you've seen new episodes pop up, it will be some replays, which I've kind of been doing for the last few months anyway, while I kind of gear myself up to make this announcement.

That's why I'm sort of just out on a walk really, talking directly to you. I thought, you know, it could do something really jazzy, like do some special edited version of all the best bits.

But that always seems a little bit like a game show and not really my style. And not really how this podcast started out in the first place, to be honest.

As you'll know, if you listen to the earlier episodes, they really are just stuck together with a bit of tell-it-hate, basically, from Skype and all of those various tools that we used before Zoom, became a part of our lives.

So yeah, I'm just going back to basics really and wanted to say huge thank you so, so much for being here and for downloading this podcast.

And, you know, I can't really wrap my head around it to be honest. How many people have listened over the years? I've just hit 12 million listens.

So it's a lot of you. There's a lot of people listening to maybe every single episode every week and things like that.

So yeah, I wanted to just post this, say thank you, say goodbye, but not a really, you know, dramatic exit.

I'll be back in different ways and this isn't the end of my podcasting journey, but it's the end of this particular format.

And I always said I would stop doing it when I felt that the magic had gone. And I think I've had a pretty good run, really proud of it.

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