#96 Rae Earl: "Snowflake" Is A Bullsh*t Word

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emma gannon

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

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🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Rae Earl is a brilliant author. Her books My Mad Fat Diary & My Madder Fatter Diary have been made into a TV show that is shown in over 50 countries worldwide including the USA, Brazil, South Korea & Morocco. My Mad Fat Diary has been nominated for 2 BAFTAS, 2 RTS awards, an international Emmy award and has won 2 MIND Media awards. Her mental heath guide It’s All in Your Head is out now – and it is a hug in a book. Rae has written articles for The Guardian, Marie Claire, Elle, Elle Australia and Sarah Millican’s The Standard Issue online magazine and has featured in The Telegraph, Heat, Grazia and The Times. In this episode with talk about mental health, the term “snowflakes”, how to have an argument online and how to know what to share online.

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0:54.7	King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast. Hello and welcome back to another
0:58.8	episode of Control-Alt Delete. Very excited about today's guest, and in fact, after editing this episode, I was just
1:05.4	laughing to myself and just smiling to myself because it's such a great episode.
1:11.6	It's with Ray Earle Earl who is an amazing author and she is full of
1:16.7	energy and just made me laugh so much. So I hope you enjoy this episode. She used to
1:22.2	work in commercial radio and whilst doing
1:25.4	that she wrote a book called My Mad Fat Diary which has now been made into a
1:31.2	TV show and it's been shown in over 50 countries worldwide
1:34.4	has been nominated for two BAFSA, an Emmy Award and has won two Mind Media
1:41.2	Awards. In this episode we talk about how it's been 10 years since her first book came out and we also talk about her new book which is called It's All in Your Head which is a mental health guide that came out in August this year and it is available now. It is an amazing
1:55.5	look at all kinds of mental health issues and really does give a really nice
2:01.0	helping hand. I actually described it as a hug. It's a hug in a book and I really
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