Alexandra Shulman
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to run one of the most influential magazines on the planet? And what do you need to be a great leader?
Alexandra Shulman spent 25 years as the editor of British Vogue - here she tells Fearne about the things she learnt about herself, and how to cope once you decide to walk away from the job you love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to Happy Place, I'm Fern Cotton. This is the podcast where we open |
| 0:07.2 | our minds, the experiences of others, all in the name of achieving good mental health. |
| 0:13.7 | Right now I am out and about in a beautiful setting, it's a sunny day, it's a lovely |
| 0:19.3 | field that might even be a couple of lambs over there but I have very poor sight so who |
| 0:23.8 | knows it could be pigeons. I'm actually out in the back, I'm about to go to Russell Brandt |
| 0:28.1 | House, that's for a future episode so make sure you subscribe to Happy Place to get that |
| 0:33.4 | as soon as it's released. Now if you're new to podcasts there's all sorts of free apps |
| 0:38.4 | you can use to do that. I've given a few links on my website just head to officialferncotton.com |
| 0:44.5 | forward slash Happy Place. But back to today's podcast which is with former |
| 0:50.0 | Vogue editor Alexandra Schillman and someone who I have so much respect and time for. If |
| 0:55.8 | you need a motivating pep talk every now and then Alexandra is the one to go to. I don't |
| 1:01.7 | find it that easy to just give myself that time but it's not so much because I'm worried |
| 1:09.5 | about not doing things, it's that I'm worried about not getting things done. |
| 1:25.8 | This episode is brought to you by Sky Protect Smart Home Insurance. I don't think you'd have to |
| 1:54.7 | listen to many episodes of the Happy Place podcast together that I adore, adore being at home. |
| 2:02.0 | I laugh with my lovely guest all the time about how content I am in my home. I feel very lucky |
| 2:06.9 | because of that but I am a right old homebody. I take a lot of pride in it being a cozy haven |
| 2:12.2 | for me and my family. When you love your home you want to keep it safe and home insurance |
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| 2:24.6 | to give you better peace of mind every day. It comes with a bundle of smart tech worth £250 |
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| 2:38.6 | cleverly help spot little problems before they become big ones and they all manage through |
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