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#218 Lotte Jeffs: The Art of Soft Power In A Harsh World

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emma gannon

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Lotte Jeffs - author, journalist and previous acting Editor of ELLE magazine. She writes for a wide variety of publications including The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian covering topics from fashion and style to sexuality and gender to social trends, memoir, and observational humour pieces. As well as writing award-winning columns, she writes colourful and newsworthy celebrity interviews and has in the past two years written cover profiles of Kristen Stewart, Karlie Kloss, Lana Del Rey and Victoria Beckham, to name a few.

Her new book How To Be A Gentlewoman: The Art of Soft Power in Hard Times is out now and in this episode we discuss book writing, failure and career pivoting.



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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles.

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Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control Art Delete.

1:06.0

Really excited that today's guest is Lottie Jeff's.

1:09.0

She is a writer and author of the new book How to Be a Gentlewoman, the art of soft power in hard times, which is out now.

1:16.4

I really loved the premise of this book and that's why I wanted to get Lottie on the

1:19.3

podcast to talk about it. In a world where we're meant to be harsh and tough and have a thick skin.

1:25.5

I really like this idea of slowing down and leaning out and nurturing your relationships

1:30.4

and creating a space that you love. It's been described as the gentle

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antidote to a brutal world. So if you're interested you can buy that now. It is

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currently out in stores. It came out this month. And a bit more about Lottie she was the acting

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deputy editor of E.S magazine she's written for so many different magazines and

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worked in so many incredibly exciting roles but just to narrow it down she was acting deputy editor of

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