Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by

and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast.

After a short break, it is so good to be back.

It's September, my favorite month of the year, my favorite time of the year.

And even though it feels busy right now, it definitely feels to me like a great time to focus, to kind of reset,

and to really be intentional about the last few months of the year. So I couldn't think of a better guest to kick off this season than today. I am joined by the brilliant Anna Mather. Anna is a

psychotherapist and a best-selling author. and I'm sure you may have seen some of her

wonderful content online. Welcome to the Power Hour podcast. Thank you. No, it's so good to be here.

I've been really, really excited because I love September as well. Not just because it's my birthday

in a couple of days. It's your birthday too. Yeah, which day? Which day are you? 9th? 12th.

Very close. It's big energy for us this time. I feel like saying Happy New Year to you.

Yes, happy, happy new, I feel like it's more New Year than New Year. I like it more actually,

but I don't like the fact that it's spider season. Anna, oh my gosh, you and I. So we've both got the birthday, which is very soon.

Yeah. Absolutely.

Spider season.

I feel like I am on hypervigilance.

I look around the house because my husband always says, you're the only person that

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