Hello Again;

This week I’m posting another previously recorded interview.

As my friend Lorraine Reguly reminded me last night I have to accept that it may take me longer to recover from my travels than it used to. :)

It’s a good thing that I do have so many amazing interviews that most of you have never heard before.

That way I don’t have to disappoint anyone when I’m dragging a little and don’t quite make it to recording a new episode.

And having Patty Fletcher to share with all my new listeners on The What’s Your Excuse? Show this week is a real life saver.

I met Patty while preparing to have Peter Altschul on the show.

Patty helps Peter and others with the publicity of their books. And you can expect to hear several more of her clients on the show in the near future.

In fact the recent interview with best selling blind author Phyllis Staton Campbell happened because of Patty.

Before I introduce you to Patty properly I want you to know that she is a real trooper and a no excuses person herself. Her laptop was damaged a few days before our interview. Instead of backing out she decided to call in on a phone line instead.

So, even before we got started I was impressed by her openness towards trying something new and just doing our best. It's every bit as motivational as what she had to say.

She is a twice published author who also happens to be blind. She shares her life with her guide dog King Campbell who figures heavily in her personal life story. She actually credits him with helping her to retrieve her life.

We talked about the experience that lead her to decide to replace her white cane with a guide dog. She shared how she was feeling at that time and the decision making process she went through. And then she talked about just how physically demanding the training turned out to be.

She openly shared about her struggles with mental illness. She went through some of her coping mechanisms that she uses now. She even talks about some of her lowest moments. And through it all King Campbell AKA Bubba is there with her and for her.

We talked about the whole process of writing and publishing her books. She shared about how many people in her life are asking about and pressuring her to release her next book. And how she is pushing back telling them to let her enjoy the latest one first.

And she did a great job talking about her writing. She transitioned from her first book Campbell's Rambles, How a Guide Dog Retrieved My Life.

Which trust me is a powerfully inspirational read.

She also talked about her latest book Bubba Tales, From the Puppy Nursery at the Seeing Eye.

Giving a great teaser to get readers to want to buy it.

And then she laid out her current and future plans and invited my audience to come over to her website and participate in the writing of her first ever book of what she is calling inclusive fiction.

I don’t want to spoil the interview for you. I will only say that some of the most important things she had to share don’t come until the bottom half of the hour.

I decided to go long so we could talk honestly about her struggles with mental illness. What she shared then was positive and powerful because of how she dealt with the experiences during an especially bad Christmas holiday season.

From beginning to end Patty will have you saying if she can do it then what’s my excuse?

Now On To The Show

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