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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Author Daisy Buchanan - Food, mental health and bad boyfriends

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to journalist and author of How To Be A Grown-Up, Daisy Buchanan about being in a terrible play at the Edinburgh Fringe with her own Tommy Wiseau, internalising bullying, wanting to see the good side of Love Island, bad boyfriends, what men are taught about being men, cosmetic surgery, fitting in, building emotional muscle, the comfort of being put in a box, confidence and fear, working alone, valuing your work, trying not to rush everything, a complicated relationship with food, The Babysitters Club, a dystopian future, writing about mental health while maintaining your own mental health, not wanting to feel like a victim, a gymnastics routine of shame and having a well-stocked toolbox.

Trigger warning - bullying, fatshaming, sexual assault, anxiety, anorexia and bulimia


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0:00.0

I've got quite bad anxiety I take medication for it and I see my therapist.

0:06.0

Sometimes it's easier than others. I've had it as long as I have been conscious and alive but it was only really in my 20s that I learned there was a

0:16.3

word for it and that I could maybe envisage a day of not feeling like that or not feeling that way all the time.

0:27.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:32.0

We're all made of human.

0:37.1

Hello, you are listening to the Made of Human

0:39.1

podcast. I'm your host Danish comedian Sophie Hagen. The background is the sounds of a very busy London

0:47.2

street because my window is open because it is so hot that I can't breathe if the window is closed so I do apologize for the honking or cat

0:58.4

calling or whatever you're about to hear in the background of this episode.

1:02.0

This is Daisy Buchanan. I want to first just quickly

1:06.4

ask you to go and check the trigger warnings because there might be something coming up that you

1:12.1

don't necessarily want to or you want to be prepared

1:15.6

for.

1:16.6

My conversation with Daisy was incredible.

1:18.0

She's just one of my favorite people.

1:20.4

She's one of those people where, I want to sit on a couch and eat popcorn and watch

1:24.9

a ram come with her and just be her best friend forever and I'm pretty sure that's how everyone

1:29.3

feels about her because she's so, just a lovely, lovely person.

1:35.0

There's, I don't know how, because it's been a while since I recorded it, from what I remember,

1:41.0

it ended too abruptly because I had to go to do a live show so I we just could

1:48.8

usually I would have spoken to her for way way longer than I did and I think we had to end it when the atmosphere was a bit

1:57.4

tense and it's I hope it doesn't come across too badly but just if you feel like I'm I might come across as a bit of a dickhead

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