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Finding Light After Depression · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning, listeners. Thank you for listening to Lament
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  Speaker 1: of Hope podcast. And thank you for listening, watching whichever
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  Speaker 1: platform you're on. Against the monetary value of having a
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  Speaker 1: very well-paying job. And I'm assuming that I'm doing pretty
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  Speaker 1: much the same. So soon after I filmed Bake Off,
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  Speaker 1: I started working for a company in Milan, an American company,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that has one of their research and
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  Speaker 1: development centers in Milan and I was working for them.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fantastic job. I had landed the job
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  Speaker 1: of a lifetime there. I mean, my salary was six figures.
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  Speaker 1: I had private health, paid holidays, private pension, a team
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  Speaker 1: of engineers working with me that were exceptionally talented. The
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  Speaker 1: company was really good and really strong. You might have
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  Speaker 1: heard of them because these are the people that patented
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  Speaker 1: in the 50s the bubble wrap. The company is called
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  Speaker 1: Seal There. And when I had the offer to write
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  Speaker 1: my first book, I went to my manager and I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is the situation. I might need some time off
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  Speaker 1: to write this book. But obviously the two things were
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  Speaker 1: incompatible because I was looking after a team of 25
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  Speaker 1: people with three pilot lines in check. It wasn't compatible
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  Speaker 1: with having to spend five days a week writing recipes.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to quit that job. come back to
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  Speaker 1: the UK and dedicate the following two years to write cookbooks.
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  Speaker 1: My mom was furious. She was fuming because she said,
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  Speaker 1: you're dumping a job that people would pay good money
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  Speaker 1: to have. You've been lucky enough to get it. You
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  Speaker 1: are in a senior management position and you're giving all
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  Speaker 1: of that up to write a cookbook. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: you're crazy. You're going to regret this. well, now it's
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  Speaker 1: been five years since, I haven't regretted it. Because I'm
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  Speaker 1: fully aware that I would have been in a much
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  Speaker 1: better financial situation if I'd stayed in Milan. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also aware that I would be spending every single day
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  Speaker 1: of my life wondering what could have been. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't live with that thought. I'd rather... take
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  Speaker 1: a gamble, get it wrong, and pay the price for that,
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  Speaker 1: then not jump at all. And in case it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go well, you see, and go back to the initial
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  Speaker 1: point of our conversation. Yeah, I mean, this is probably
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  Speaker 1: probably how I ended up on Bake Off. Because when
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  Speaker 1: I was putting together the form to apply, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: what the heck, I might as well do it. What
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  Speaker 1: have I got to lose? I never, ever close any
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  Speaker 1: doors in front of me. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 1: probably the only mantra I want to leave to my
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  Speaker 1: kids as they grow up. Because you never know. You
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  Speaker 1: never know what may happen, what may come. I keep
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  Speaker 1: telling them that falling down is absolutely worth the fun
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  Speaker 1: of a run. So go for it, give it a go.
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  Speaker 1: And if you fall, you'll recover. You know what not
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  Speaker 1: to do next time around.