Kim-Louise Liddell

I sold my business at the end of 2023 and I was pretty tired and I thought I'll take six months off.

I had a nice ring to it, six months sabbatical and didn't know what I was going to do, but I had a bit of traveling and then we had the Olympics, which was amazing.

Very cool.

And I wrote this book called A Whisper to the Weary about what it's like when it gets tough.

Oh, sure.

And mental health challenges are really huge in our world.

Oh, yeah.

And what to do when it's tough and how to survive that.

I now say the river of pain allows the joy to flow through.

So we know that there's pain and what you do about it.

So A Whisper to the Weary is about that.

And then, you know, my publisher said, well, who is Kim Liddell actually?

Who's the dirt boss?

And I'd started writing it way back and then it just all flowed out.

So the dirt boss story had to be told.

It's, that's a legacy in itself.

I think for Dirt Boss it was about writing what people wanted to hear.

They wanted to hear how I did it, what that story was like working in construction in one of the biggest construction markets in the world.

So that was hard.

I think it was trying to live up to expectations and in the end I just went with the flow and I think that works.