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Here’s a clip from Candace McPhie's interview with me on The Mind of Sai Marie.

Candace breaks down the hilarious and messy chaos of her backpacking journey across the Middle East in the 1990s. She traveled with an around-the-world ticket and a mission to find herself beyond the kryptonite of a past relationship.

But as any traveler knows, finding yourself often comes with a gritty price. From the dusty streets of Amman to dodging bed bugs and camel spit on the Nile, Candace pulls back the curtain on the reality of navigating the world before the age of connectivity. She reveals that while she started out waiting for a guy who didn't love her, she ended up discovering that what she was actually missing wasn't a comfort-food peanut butter sandwich—it was her own strength.

This conversation is about more than just a trip through the Czech Republic or Egypt—it’s about the Architecture of Resilience and the bravery required to be messy, honest, and "here".

Listen to the full episode now on Substack to hear more about the third book in the Back in a Year series, available via Anneek Inc.

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00:00Writing a hilarious memoir about messy experiences requires a lot of honesty.
00:04Was there a particular scene that was too messy to include or did you put it all on the page?
00:09But in terms of memoir writing for my own self, I wrote what happened to me and how I felt
00:15about it.
00:16If someone told me something personal or someone shared something with me, that didn't end up in this book.
00:21I would have conversations with people that I would have in this book, but there's not something personal from someone
00:27else that they didn't ask to share that, right?
00:29So that's not in there, but there's things that I did that I'm not proud of that are in there.
00:34And I think the book is richer for it.
00:37It's actually once you do it and you get the courage, once you get through it, you feel so much
00:42better.
00:42You truly do.
00:44Yeah. I mean, I didn't commit a crime or anything. It wasn't that bad.
00:47I just morally, some of the things weren't great.
00:49And some of the interactions I had with people, I was hurt by them and I put them in.
00:54And the things maybe people said to me that weren't a personal thing, but they said to me about me
01:01and my reaction to that.
01:03Those are the types of things I put in there.
01:05I did.
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