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emma gannon
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
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Summary
Announcing a new two book special by me, Emma Gannon, including a free virtual workshop and special intro from Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way. **Books are only on sale until midnight on June 4th**
Get yours here: poundproject.co.uk/shop/a-year-of-nothing
It's been a year since I last posted on this podcast.
Sometimes it’s all a bit too much.
Have you considered doing nothing about it?
For years, I have written about work, wellbeing and productivity. Then I was struck down by chronic burnout and could barely get out of bed. Something had to change.
So I bring you: A Year of Nothing, a moving account of why I had no choice but to switch off, go underground, and find joy and wisdom in mundane pleasures.
Split over two books and four seasons, I write about dog borrowing, dopamine dressing, learning how to swim (again), choosing to be child free, tuning into nature and much more.
Every purchase of this memoir includes three exclusives:
- A foreword by The Godmother of creativity Julia Cameron.
- Five beautiful A6 prints by artist and illustrator Georgia-Maia Oliphant, one for each season and one just for you (pictured).
- An invite to a virtual event on July 4th, where Emma and TPP founder JP Watson will host a Q&A and workshop the book’s central question: when you've worked out how to do the most, how do you learn to do nothing?
** Print books will be published on June 12th **
If you would prefer just to buy the digital edition please click here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone it's Emma Gannon here how are you doing it's been a while a whole year in fact so I wanted to say hello and tell you that I've just launched a brand new book it It's called A Year of Nothing and it has been a year of nothing in your podcast feed for Control-Or delete, that's for sure. |
| 0:19.0 | And you might be wondering where I've been or what I've been doing since closing down this |
| 0:23.6 | podcast a year ago after six years and 13 million downloads and thank you so much |
| 0:30.0 | to anyone who continues to listen. At the end of 2022 I went through a really bad chronic burnout |
| 0:36.0 | episode which meant having to quit mostly everything and go back to the |
| 0:39.7 | drawing board, learn to rest, learn to do nothing, learn to just let myself not be very well, and it |
| 0:47.4 | wasn't something I was very off-fay with before, my life was very busy, and my book, A Year of Nothing, is published by The Pound Project, which is an independent publisher close to my heart. |
| 0:59.0 | It's the only way I wanted to do this book. |
| 1:01.0 | It's definitely the right place for a book of this nature. The book is split |
| 1:06.1 | into two books and it's across four seasons, winter, spring, summer, autumn and it arrives in this really beautiful, sustainably made case. |
| 1:15.9 | I don't know if you've seen the Pound Project books before, but they're really beautiful |
| 1:20.0 | and they look really poetic and they're just a really lovely keepsake. |
| 1:24.0 | In the books I write about recovery, dog borrowing, dopamine dressing, learning how to swim again, |
| 1:30.0 | choosing to be child free, tuning into nature and so much more. |
| 1:34.4 | Here's a quote from the book. |
| 1:36.4 | In nature things are allowed to break down and regenerate and build back up again. |
| 1:41.0 | But as humans it feels trickier. Life is busy. You can't really |
| 1:45.4 | schedule in a breakdown. I really think you'll like it if you liked this |
| 1:50.3 | podcast. It covers a lot of themes that I've really evolved into wanting to |
| 1:54.9 | talk about. And when you buy a copy of the book you also get access to a free |
| 1:58.6 | workshop with me on July the 4th, plus some beautiful postcards designed by one of my favorite illustrators that |
| 2:05.5 | brings to life some of the book's themes. |
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