Janette Manrara is starting a new career as a self help guru.
The TV favourite wants to use her life experience to give others a boost. In recent years she’s quit her role as a pro dancer on Strictly, become a mum for the first time and turned 40.
And she is convinced she’s now in a position to dish out handy advice on how to tackle challenges.
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She said: “Now I’m 40, hopefully I’ve experienced a few things that I can share with other people. I want to use my platform to give back in some shape or form.
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“I’ve done a lot of work on myself and I took a couple courses to just learn a little bit more about how the mind works and how the body functions and things like that.
“And I realised that there was so much about my own kind of life and my own story that I had already been applying all these principles to that I didn’t even realise were there.”
Janette is kicking off her new venture by releasing her own self help book.
The star penned Tiny Dancer, Big World: 12 Simple Steps to Inspire You to Follow Your Dreams in a bid to help as many of her fans as possible.
It’s tipped to be a best-seller when it’s published in September.
She said: “I’m hoping the book will really help people do little things like take tiny steps towards leading a better life for themselves… whether that be in their career or in the personal relationships.
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“It’s a very, very optimistic book about what we can be as human beings.
“It’s about me sharing what I’ve learned from my own practices and how I finally understood why I behaved the way that I behaved.
“And going forward, how I’m using all these things now in my life. I’m really, really hoping to help a lot of people.”
The book will also be about her life growing up in Florida, her years training as a dancer and becoming a TV star on shows including Strictly.
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She added: “I have shared a little bit of my story. I use parts of my own life to show the reader a certain lesson or something that I want them to understand.
“You will learn a lot about me that you’ve not known before.”
Janette wrote the book while her and hubby Aljaz Skorjanec were expecting their daughter Ira.
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Doing it while pregnant made it an emotional experience.
She said: “I finished the last chapter two days before I gave birth. I was going through a very transformative time in my life and I was very reflective.
“I cried a lot. I was almost a bit like going through therapy, revisiting all these old stories and trying to find a way to get the reader to understand that aspect about themselves through my own kind of experiences.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
