#154 Katherine Ormerod (Part One): Is Social Media Ruining Your Life? (Recorded Live At Waterstones)

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🗓️ 20 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Ormerod is a journalist, influencer and author. She has worked as a journalist for over a decade, starting her career as a fashion assistant at Sunday Times Style, moving to Grazia to become Senior Fashion News & Features Editor then on to Glamour where she was Fashion Features Editor at Large. Prior to her career, she graduated with a MA(Hons) in History from the University of Edinburgh and went on to get a Master's in Fashion History & Theory from the London College of Fashion. Katherine has written for the FT, the Telegraph, Harper's Bazaar and the Mail on Sunday.

In January 2017, she launched workworkwork.co, an anti-perfectionism platform where high-profile social media stars and women with aspirational careers share stories from their 'unedited' lives.

She's now written a book 'Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life' a no-holds-barred, no-filter look at what social media is doing to us as a society, and how we can deconstruct the online fantasy to change our own attitudes about modern womanhood.

Quotes from the episode:

"Social media takes all the WORK out."

'Social media has to be ONE of the pans frying in our general life, it can't be the only pan frying. It can't be every part of the way you validate yourself. It can't be the only way you promote your career."

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1:05.0	I'm so excited because we have the amazing Catherine Ormerod who,
1:10.0	well I've just been a bit of a fan girl kind of following you for years so this is really
1:13.8	fun I'm really really excited and the book why social media is ruining your life is a an
1:19.8	incredible book is also kind of going mad online ironically with the hashtag which is really
1:25.8	really interesting you should check that out but I just feel like tonight's going to
1:29.6	be quite therapeutic in general for all of us because we're getting to that point aren't we with the
1:34.7	internet so just a little bit of a background on Catherine 10 years or more of being a
1:41.8	journalist 12 you are an incredible journalist you're also
1:46.8	someone who's very wise very real and just everyone likes you you you're
1:50.8	just one of those people who kind of tells it how it is but in a really
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