#197 Elizabeth Day: The Myth Of Shiny Success

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Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Elizabeth Day is an author, journalist and broadcaster. She has written 4 critically aclaimed novels, including The Party which was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick. Elizabeth is a currently columnist for You magazine on the Mail on Sunday and a feature writer for numerous publications in the UK and US including The Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, the Observer, Vogue, Grazia, Elle, The Pool and Vanity Fair. Her chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, is a celebration of the things that haven't gone right. Every week, in a one-on-one interview, a guest discusses what they have learned from failure. Interviewees have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lily Allen, Alastair Campbell and Dolly Alderton. Her book How To fail, based on the podcast, is out now, a brilliantly honest memoir about celebrating the things that go wrong.

We talk about personal writing, success 'triggers', fertility, friendship, failures and why your own definition of success is super important.

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete. I'm still making these
1:07.1	podcasts. Today's guest is the amazing Elizabeth Day who's absolutely
1:12.3	everywhere at the moment.
1:13.4	You might have heard her on other podcasts,
1:15.4	but I just had to get her on mine as well.
1:17.8	There's too much to discuss.
1:19.6	She is an author, journalist, and broadcaster.
1:22.4	She's written four critically acclaimed novels so far, including
1:26.2	The Party, which I absolutely loved, which was a Richard and Judy book club pick.
1:31.5	She is currently a columnist for You magazine. She writes really
1:35.2	interesting columns about all the things that we are thinking and she is a feature
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