Being Single, Dating and Setting Boundaries with Michelle Elman
Doing It! with Hannah Witton
Global Media & Entertainment
4.8 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Apologies that my audio in this episode is slightly distorted - not sure what happened to my microphone for this one! But hope you enjoy the conversation nonetheless.
✨MORE ABOUT MICHELLE ELMAN✨
Michelle Elman is a five-board accredited Life Coach and is most known for her campaign Scarred Not Scared. She has an active social media presence with over 300k followers across her accounts. She has appeared on Sky News, Loose Women, Channel 5 News, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio 5 Live, LBC sharing her expert opinion, as well as radio worldwide from Hong Kong to Los Angeles to Ireland. Her TedX talk "Have You Hated Your Body Enough Today?" has been viewed over 50,000 times and her debut book "Am I Ugly?" was released in 2018. She has also written for a number of reputable publications including Huffington Post, Grazia, Metro, MTV and Stylist. In 2020, she was named as one of The Sun's 50 most inspirational women in the UK. She recently launched her life coaching podcast "In All Honesty" and her new book "The Joy Of Being Selfish" is being published in 2021.
- The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-joy-of-being-selfish/michelle-elman/9781787396777
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| 0:00.0 | We talk about self-love all the time, but we don't recognize that in order to actually have time for self-love and self-care, you need to make time for yourself. |
| 0:09.0 | And in order to do that, you do have to put yourself before other people. |
| 0:13.8 | And so people can really get on board with a wafty idea of self-love. |
| 0:18.9 | But I'm like, boundaries are the practical side of self-love. |
| 0:21.7 | How do you have time for self-love and self-care when you're taking care of everyone else first? |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies. |
| 0:42.9 | Hi, welcome back to doing it. Today's guest is the brilliant Michelle Elman, who is a life coach, |
| 0:50.5 | body positive activist and author. She recently announced that her second book, |
| 0:56.0 | The Joy of Being Selfish, How to Set Boundaries and Why We Need Them, |
| 1:00.0 | will be coming out in February next year, |
| 1:03.0 | and I just had to talk with her all about it. |
| 1:06.0 | In recent years, Michelle has become more open online |
| 1:09.0 | with talking about her experiences dating, |
| 1:12.3 | and she always has such great wisdom to offer. |
| 1:16.3 | In this episode, we talk about what Michelle calls empowered dating, |
| 1:20.1 | how it changed the way she felt about dating and felt about herself, |
| 1:24.3 | and helped her get over the fear of ending up alone. We chat about all sorts from the |
| 1:31.0 | hierarchical notion that meeting a partner IRL is better than meeting them through apps, |
| 1:36.5 | the scam that is virginity, our thoughts on the TV show normal people, and we go on a bit of a |
| 1:43.0 | tangent about neuro-linguistic programming and |
| 1:46.0 | pick-up artists. |
| 1:48.0 | And of course, we tackle boundaries. |
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