Alex Jones: Making mistakes, being present, and chaotic family holidays
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Do you get frustrated by everyone asking you “what’s next?” Presenter Alex Jones reckons there’s too much pressure to bypass being content in the moment, particularly when it comes to our careers.
In this chat, live from the Happy Place Festival, Fearne and Alex say there’s no shame – in fact there’s real beauty – in sitting still and enjoying the moment.
There’s also a nice bit of gossip about Dolly Parton, Jared Leto, Art Garfunkel, and Richard & Judy...
Massive thanks to British Airways Holidays for sponsoring the Happy Place Festival Talk Stage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that lets you |
| 0:07.1 | enjoy the bloody moment and reflect on what you've got right now. Today, live from the Happy Place Festival in Chisic I am chatting to |
| 0:16.2 | the delightful Alex Jones. Why is there all this pressure to find the next |
| 0:21.1 | thing the next move you know sometimes you have to really |
| 0:24.9 | look at what you've got and go this is great and if this is it I love it and you know |
| 0:30.8 | people ask a lot but what do you want to do? |
| 0:34.3 | Like what do you mean? I'm really happy and they look but you know don't you want to do a big |
| 0:38.9 | entertainment show and I'm like well all new projects are exciting and a new challenge but actually it would be really remiss of anybody I think to overlook the bread and butter |
| 0:50.0 | Actually for me longevity is key. |
| 0:53.3 | Alex has presented the One Show on the BBC for 14 years and she's no intention of going anywhere. |
| 1:00.0 | She's properly content with where she's at and I love that I love that she's found |
| 1:04.4 | the joy of sitting still and just enjoying the present instead of constantly moving |
| 1:10.3 | towards the next thing. Now British Airways holidays are the brilliant |
| 1:15.4 | sponsors of our talk stage at both our Chisic and upcoming Tatton Park |
| 1:20.7 | festival so I want to say a massive thank you to them for bringing this fabulous |
| 1:25.1 | chat with Alex to life. By the way if you're coming along to the Tatton Festival, just go to |
| 1:30.4 | happyplace Festival.com if you haven't got your tickets yet. |
| 1:33.8 | Make sure that you drop into the British Airways Holiday's T.P. |
| 1:37.9 | Not only for the chance to win a holiday, by the way, you can win a holiday, |
| 1:42.2 | but you can also try out their amazing |
| 1:44.1 | immersive holiday experience I had a go in Chisic and it was so lovely you can sit |
| 1:48.7 | there smell the smells of a holiday hear the sounds of a holiday, sit on a deck chair, you've got this lovely scent of |
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