Episode Description
his is the first-ever bonus episode of Captn OffScript. CJ Cawley and I recorded the main S02/E32 conversation for over an hour and twenty minutes, and somewhere around the hour mark it took a turn that didn't belong in the main episode and didn't deserve to be cut either.
So we held it back. It went to newsletter subscribers first as a private YouTube link. Today it's available here too.
This is the more personal part of our conversation. CJ talks openly about growing up on a council estate in London, leaving home at 16, and cutting ties with his family two to three years ago. I share my own parallel story for the first time in public — Bosnia, a relationship with my mum that I'm grateful for, and most of the rest of the family almost non-existent.
It's a conversation about the scripts we were given as kids, the partners who helped us rewrite them, and finding home far from where we started.
If this is one you needed to hear, I hope it does for you what it did for us when we were having it.
In this conversation we talked about:
- The script you're given by your parents as a child
- Leaving home at 16 and living above a pub
- Cutting ties with family after years of trying
- The partners who saw the good part first
- Finding home far from where we started
- Why we wouldn't change it, even if we could
The main episode this bonus extends: S02/E32 — CJ Cawley: Getting Cloned, Getting Married & Showing Up Anyway https://captnoffscript.com/s02-e32-cj-cawley-showing-up-anyway
Find CJ here:
- Website: https://www.cjcawley.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cjcawleydesign
- Sticky Notes podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@WeAreStickyNotes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cj.cawley.design/
Find me here:
This was the first-ever Captn OffScript bonus episode. Newsletter subscribers get future bonuses on YouTube a week before they reach the podcast feeds. Subscribe at https://captn.myflodesk.com/newsletter.