Lucy Loves Ben Mercer

My guest this week is the charming and handsome Ben Mercer, a best-selling author and former professional athlete.  I was lucky enough to meet Ben at a virtual coffee event, where his warmth and natural humour shined through, and so it's a privilege to have him on the podcast talking about what makes his heart smile.     Here are the highlights:  {1:11} Literature was my passion  {4:31} Book recommendations  {8:01} Bad at accepting compliments  {11:17} Moving to France and playing rugby  {14:39} You can never pay too much for a cinnamon bun  {19:07} Upcoming book projects    Ben’s Book Recommendation:  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas  The Thinking Project by Michael Lewis  Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman    Find out more about Lucy and listen to more episodes at http://lucygourlay.com  

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Lucy Loves is a podcast bringing a bit of light-hearted fun and humour, inspired by you for you. It is borne from Lucy’s love of listening and love of laughter. Each week our aim is to bring you a few laughs and some inspiring momentum to lift the spirits - and to find out what makes your heart smile. Lucy Gourlay is a happy, hard-working, busy single mum to two fabulous children. Lucy lives in rural Northumberland and loves baking. She also loves the idea of running! Lucy is a Time to Think coach giving unconditional space to people who don’t feel listened to. Each week Lucy chats to a different guest so they can bring their laughter and humour and we can learn about what or who inspires them to keep the feel-good moments alive. Life has its fair share of challenges and we can be affected in so many ways. But it is remembering to find or look for the humour, the heartwarming, or even the laugh out loud moments - and that’s what we aim to do each week, is to find the laughter in amongst the challenges. We really hope you enjoy this podcast and would love you to subscribe so you can keep updated with new episodes. And if you really enjoy it, it would mean a great deal if you can leave a review.