Andrea McLean | Risking everything, navigating mental health challenges, low self-worth and following your gut.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Andrea McLean is one of those people you already feel as though you know. Not least because she's been a familiar face on British television for two decades but because she has such an easy, warm, open and welcoming way with everyone she meets. And let me tell you, in the flesh, this magnetism is even more charming than you could imagine. She is also blessed with a dry wit and an excellent side-eye!
After years anchoring the liveliest panel on TV, the prime-time show Loose Women, she is now focused on her website and app This Girl is On Fire, which focuses on supporting women (and soon men) through midlife. It's not just her day job, it's a calling. Having navigated her own mental health struggles, crises of confidence and a constant drive to want to do better and be better, Andrea is committed to passing on and sharing everything that has worked for her with those who feel the same.
I open each podcast by asking my guest 'what's your relationship like with risk?' and, as you can imagine, Andrea's answer, as someone who walked away from one of the most coveted jobs for women in broadcasting, is an incredible one... We discuss being in bad relationships, trying to make a bad thing work, knowing when to listen to advice - and when to ignore it - and why admitting you're wrong can sometimes be the greatest gift.
Andrea was so open and honest and I'm thrilled to share this conversation with you...
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| 1:33.6 | Life's defining moments don't always feel that great when they are happening. |
| 1:37.6 | In the moment, they can feel challenging, uncomfortable, difficult, impossible even. |
| 1:43.4 | But with hindsight, they can take on a different shape. |
| 1:46.4 | Each week I asked my guests to share their biggest life learnings to date |
| 1:50.6 | as we explore those difficult, swampy, infuriating times and how they shaped them all from a comfortable distance |
| 1:58.2 | that supported them the time to take the positive out of what might have seemed nothing but negative at the time. |
| 2:04.2 | Because whether it's risks, excuses, obstacles, opportunities both missed and taken, |
| 2:09.6 | successes, regrets, curveballs, weaknesses, strengths, and perhaps the hardest lesson of all, |
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