Elizabeth Day - How To Cope With Being A 'Friendaholic'

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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My guest today is the awesome Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is a very dear friend and a person who has affected my life incredibly positively. If it wasn't for her you wouldn't know about me. Back in 2019, she hosted me on her podcast 'How To Fail" which now has more than 35 million downloads. Elizabeth is an amazing soul who has found a way to use her vulnerability to dig deep inside to tell us about what we all feel but don't say or address. She now has a new book out called 'Friendaholic' it's ...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.0	Welcome to slow more. My guest today is the awesome Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is a very, very dear friend and a person that has affected my life incredibly positively.
0:45.9	If it has not been for Elizabeth Day you wouldn't know about me back in 2018, 2019, she hosted me on her incredible podcast How to Fail, which now has 35 million
1:00.1	downloads isn't it? Even more. go brag and that was really the first
1:06.8	real introduction of my concepts on long-form conversations which I think not only got me reach but also got me thinking
1:17.3	about the fact that maybe books or social media short clips are not the way to send my message to the world.
1:25.0	Elizabeth is an amazing soul who has found a way to use her vulnerability, to dig deep inside and tell us about things that we all sort of feel, but we don't actually voice and surface and address.
1:48.8	Her first book, How to Fail, is a beautiful,
1:53.0	beautiful, vulnerable connection to herself
1:56.8	to talk about the parts of her life where she struggled
1:59.7	that has taught so many of us that failure is a wonderful thing. Philosophy was her experience from some of the
2:06.6	conversations she had on the topic. And now she has a new book out end of March it came out that's called a friend-the-holic and when I saw that I was like
2:19.3	oh because I count myself as a friend so I'm not really sure if we should talk about this book.
2:28.0	But Friend Horik is really a beautiful, beautiful approach.
2:32.0	As always a very simple cover and a lovely
2:35.1	lovely approach to sort of understanding that friendship is not always
2:40.6	better when there is more of it that there is a lot of toxicity that
2:45.8	comes with friends that are perhaps not the best for you in your life.
2:49.2	Anyway I just use that as an excuse to meet my wonderful, wonderful friend, Elizabeth Day.
2:56.0	Mo, oh my goodness, you know how much I adore you, and you are so kind to say that it was how to fail that gave you a platform but I
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