Josh Langley is an award-winning children’s author and kids mental health advocate. For 10 years he’s been creating books, programs and school talks to help make talking to kids’ about mental health easy. He simplifies big topics such as self-acceptance, emotional regulation, and resilience into simple easy to understand language that all kids can understand.His work is used by schools, child psychologists, speech therapists and occupational therapists around Australia.In his early life, Josh Langley was told he would amount to nothing in life, having failed high school (twice) and being unemployed for several years. But that didn’t stop Josh from becoming an award-winning radio copywriter and award-winning author. His quirky and inspirational books have inspired thousands of people of all ages around the world to see life from an entirely new perspective. Josh has published 10 books in 10 years and in 2018 won the Australian Book Industry Awards Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of Year. An engaging speaker, he’s appeared at Paracon 2015, Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, Telling Tales Balingup, delivered workshops and presented at over 120 primary schools.Josh is a passionate advocate for both kids and adult mental health having himself experienced childhood trauma, and since being with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Positive mental health themes feature across his books, public talks, workshops and interviews.