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Episode 150 of the Drink Less Live Better podcast. 150. How did that happen? Hello, darling heart, and welcome to this episode
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of the drink less, live better podcast. This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful,
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lonely, or boring. I'm your host, Sarah Laura Williamson, and I decided to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment
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and haven't looked back. I'm a best selling author, expert speaker, corporate workshop facilitator, and life coach. I'm here
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to support you with your alcohol free or drink less adventures. To keep up to date, be sure to follow me on Instagram at drink
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less, live better, and head to the site, drink less live better dot com, where you will be able to sign up to the 5 day drink
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less experiment, find blog posts, and you can Choose to join the email club where I share resources, wisdom, insights and
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glimmers of hope and joy. I hope you Enjoy this episode. Let's get straight to it. Big mistake. Big. Huge. I don't drink,
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but that doesn't mean I don't make mistakes. Last week, I received an email. It was out a commissioned piece of press for
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the mainstream media. I was excited. Getting my name and business into this publication would have been fabulous exposure.
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Someone I really love and admire had recommended me for the piece. I had an email conversation back and forth with the journalist
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just before we were booking my interview. As we were getting round to booking the interview, she asked me a particular question,
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which I answered. She then messaged straight back to say, sorry. I wasn't going to be a suitable fit for the piece after all,
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and they were going to find somebody else. I was a bit naffed off. I knew the answer I had given to her last question hadn't
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been what she'd expected. I spent the afternoon feeling a bit tetchy, a bit gnarkey, but I sent a polite and gracious response
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to her. Of course I did. That evening, I opened up the email trail Again, I don't really know why, but I just did, and I read
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back through it. I realized that in the response I had sent her before our conversation ended, I had made a massive error,
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a spelling take. The answer I had given to her question had been 500 when I meant type 5,000. It just missed off a 0. In the
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context of what we were talking about, This made a huge difference. Whoops. No wonder. 500 was not enough, and 5000 absolutely
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would have been. No wonder she'd stopped our conversation. It wasn't about her. It was absolutely about me. I sent a quick
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email back explaining my previous reply had been an error. I suspected they would have commissioned someone else by then,
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and indeed they had, but she and I had a light hearted back and forth about how easy It was to make mistakes. Oh, I was cross
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with myself for all of about 5 minutes. That was clearly not my ship, not my opportunity. I've made a note for my future self
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to to check, double check, maybe even triple check responses to questions like that one. I'm chalking this up to experience
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big bold experience. We all make mistakes. Some of them are tiny, some of them are bigger. Big mistake. Big, huge, or Maybe
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it just wasn't. Who knows? Thank you for listening in today. Come back again next week. I'd massively appreciate it if You
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