Maddie Alexander Grout

But, you know, it's very much like...

don't do visibility for visibility's sake.

Make sure that it's intentional.

And when it's accidental, sometimes you think, I mean, and the downsides of it is it throws me out of my business for days because I have to then change my direction so that I can fight for myself and battle.

It does bring reward back in, but it's also like,

sometimes you just think and and I'm not always great like sometimes I get it and I'm like oh here we go again I don't have time I don't have the energy I don't have the spoons like you know as a disabled person sometimes my energy levels are quite you know fluctuating um and I don't have time it's like the third time it happened I had a week's deadline to get my book out and I was like

for this stuff like but you have to you kind of have to and over the last year it has got me seen by some really big people so the more you're in the press the more other press will see you i've been on good morning britain um recently i had zoe ball and joe wiley talking about my book on their podcast i was in

And they've got a podcast called Dig It and they put me in their Christmas gift guide.

Like there's just been there's been loads of positive things.

I've been on the BBC.

BBC did a mini documentary about me, which was lovely.

And they had a nice narrative, which was which was good.

And I've been on LBC now because they saw me on the Nick Ferrari interview and they saw how they handled me.

I've been on LBC six times this year.

So next up this morning, by the way, this morning, if you're listening, like I'm here, I'm available.

I talk about lots of things.

They've met me before, so I've met one of them in person.

I've spoken to one of the directors.

They've invited me on, I think now four times now.

and it always falls through at the last minute.