Elizabeth Day On Embracing Failure, Modern Dating & The Importance Of Friendship | SL Conversations
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Mia Luckie
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week on SL Conversations, Charlotte Collins is joined by best-selling author, journalist, and podcast host Elizabeth Day for an insightful conversation on embracing failure, the evolution of success and the challenges of modern dating. As the creator of the hit podcast How to Fail, Elizabeth has spent years exploring the power of setbacks and resilience. Now, she’s launching How to Date – a new podcast delving into the highs, lows and everything in between when it comes to love and relationships. In this episode, the two discuss the inspiration behind How to Fail and what Elizabeth has learned from it, why modern dating needs a new approach and the Good Dating Pledge – plus, what’s next for her in 2025…
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TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:17 How To Fail: Vulnerability, Memorable Guests & Lessons On Resilience
12:32 The Value Of Friendships & How To Navigate Breakups
18:55 How To Date: Tips On Online Dating & Advice On Rejection
33:52 Outro
Elizabeth Day | @elizabday | https://www.instagram.com/elizabday/?hl=en
How To Date | https://tinyurl.com/2rpvup64
How To Fail: Mo Gawdat | https://tinyurl.com/5n96452z
How To Fail: Kate Winslet | https://tinyurl.com/3tyhy7z6
How To Fail: Andy Cohen | https://tinyurl.com/dmxerv24
Friendaholic By Elizabeth Day | https://tinyurl.com/37v4pwb4
How To Date: How To Write A Book | https://tinyurl.com/axbwv45j
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a very special interview with Elizabeth Day. |
| 0:09.0 | Yay! |
| 0:10.0 | I've got a formal intro. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm going to give you the formal intro, okay? |
| 0:14.0 | Elizabeth Day is bestselling author, journalist and the host of hit podcasts How to Fail, |
| 0:19.0 | a celebration of life's unexpected setbacks and the resilience of the human spirit. |
| 0:22.6 | Now she's gearing up to launch How to Date, a new show examining the highs, lows and everything in between of modern dating. |
| 0:28.6 | She joins me to talk about the power of vulnerability, lessons learned, and why embracing imperfection leads to personal growth. |
| 0:35.6 | Those are some deep topics. |
| 0:36.6 | They are. |
| 0:38.3 | A lot deeper than the Kardashian below deck chat that we've been having free recording. |
| 0:41.3 | Well, you say that Charlotte, but I actually think, yeah, reality TV can be very deep. |
| 0:46.3 | It's like a mirror into real life. |
| 0:48.3 | It is. |
| 0:49.3 | It is. |
| 0:50.3 | It is. |
| 0:51.3 | We've got to start with how to fail because, I mean, |
| 0:55.1 | that's what has absolutely catapulted you into like household name almost. Where did the idea come |
| 1:01.0 | from? How did it start? So I started thinking about it at the end of 2017 and the reason I can |
| 1:07.1 | date it so precisely is because I had just been dumped. I know exactly the date and the minute. |
| 1:12.6 | The date and exactly what he said and his phone number. |
| 1:15.4 | No, I'm kidding. |
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