How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things in life that haven’t gone right and what we might learn from them along the way. Every week, Elizabeth’s guest explores three failures, and what these failures have taught them about how to grow and succeed, better. We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with Elizabeth to share your failures, problems or questions - anonymously or otherwise. She'll go through these each week with the help of her very special guests. And remember: a fail shared is a fail halved. https://forms.sonymusicfans.com/campaign/how-to-fail-uk-2023/ An Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Original Production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastsales@sonymusic.com
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S20, Ep14 Will Young - ‘I like to talk about it because I survived it’
TW: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault and suicide. In many ways, Will Young is the definition of resilience. As a child, he endured physical and psychological abuse at prep school. In his 20s, he found fame on a... -
S20, Ep13 Richard Osman on cats, crime and c**ts
I loved interviewing Richard Osman and can’t stop thinking about our conversation. I think it’s because his brain works at warp speed: I genuinely felt he was three steps ahead of every question I was about to ask. It became something... -
S20, Ep12 Dr. Jen Gunter - Patriarchy, periods and penile failure
TW: infant loss and birth trauma Dr Jen Gunter is an obstetrician-gynaecologist, pain medicine physician and bestselling author. She’s most well-known to many of us as Twitter’s resident OB-GYN, the woman who took on Gwyneth Paltrow’s... -
S20, Ep11 Adeel Akhtar - The importance of staying true to yourself
My guest today has a nickname in showbiz circles: he’s called ‘Ideal Actor’ because of his scene-stealing talent and his ability to get under the skin of what it is to be human. If you’ve watched Netflix’s monster hit, Fool Me Once, or... -
S20, Ep10 Katie Price - ‘Everything bad that’s ever happened to me is because of men’
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S20, Ep9 Nicole Scherzinger - ‘I’ve never felt I’m enough’
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S20, Ep8 Jon Ronson on truth-telling and the culture wars
Jon Ronson is a journalistic hero of mine, as he is to many. He was one of the first people to write about the culture wars, well before the phrase became commonplace in our news cycles. His two audio series exploring real-life origin... -
S20, Ep7 AJ Odudu - ‘Living to tell the tale is the joyful thing’
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S20, Ep6 Mel B - ‘I was a Spice Girl shouting about girl power, but I was girl powerless.’
TW: coercive / controlling relationships Mel B has a story that everyone needs to hear. It’s a story of resilience in the face of severe adversity - and how we can conquer our biggest fears if we put our minds to it. Melanie was in a... -
S20, Ep5 Sabrina Dhowre Elba… I thought ‘this is how I’m going to die’
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S20, Ep4 Paloma Faith… ‘I overshare by whose standards? Not mine.’
TW: miscarriage Paloma Faith’s teachers used to ask her why she ‘acted stupid’, which is ironic given that she’s now one of the smartest, sharpest guests I’ve ever had on this podcast. A global singing sensation, as well as an... -
S20, Ep3 Sathnam Sanghera on why books can save us and how to understand Empire
Full disclosure - Sathnam is a dear friend of mine. He was a guest on the first ever season of How To Fail and there’s a very good reason why I’m chatting to him again. A lot has shifted in both our lives. Since he was last on here,...