Louise McSharry

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, you know, all anyone wants when they're interviewing someone is for them to cry.

So no need to apologize.

No, I'm only joking.

I'm actually not in the business of making people cry on this podcast.

Sometimes crying is good.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I completely think so.

And sometimes it can be, it can really help you identify the bits that you maybe need to scratch a little bit more despite it being uncomfortable.

But I think as well, you know, like, cause we started the conversation, I was asking you how it felt to be the interviewee rather than the interviewer.

And you said, you know, it's kind of, it's stressful to think about being seen in this way.

And, you know, for you to be so highly visible as yourself in this context, to talk about this thing that happened to you and to have a physical scar as a result of it, all of that wrapped up has got to be hard.

Yeah.

I totally agree.

And like, I think, you know, it can be for me as an interviewer, right.

I get pitched a lot of authors and I say no to a lot of authors, to be honest, because it's difficult if people haven't read the book or they don't know the person, it can be difficult to get people to even just listen to the episode, you know, and get people to connect if they don't know the name and

don't know who is this person yeah why should I care yeah and um so you need something that you know people are going to connect to um and you know because I mean you are easy because well first of all I like you and I've met you before and but the fact that you have the the job that you do but also the fact that there is this personal connection and there is a real life experience at the heart of it it's hard to talk about but it does just help people connect like it really does and I think yeah

you know, but you could have said, well, I'm actually just not going to talk about it.

So I think fair play to you that you decided that you will.