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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Elizabeth Day - The Universe is Unfolding Exactly as Intended

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is my one of my dearest friends, Elizabeth Day. I have been waiting for this conversation for a long time, and it's flattering to know that many others have been as well. I appeared on Elizabeth's podcast earlier this year, and the episode was an absolutely massive hit. All of this is humbling, but the real gem is the bond I forged with this amazing woman.This conversation is an invaluable follow-up as we end one of the most trying years in collective human history. It says a lo...

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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 one of my dearest friends, Elizabeth Day.

0:40.0

Elizabeth was a novelist and a journalist, still is, until she turned a few years ago her biggest failures, into a movement that helps us learn about how to fail and how to turn failure

1:00.5

into our biggest opportunity for learning and success.

1:05.0

She started a podcast called How to Fail that became an incredible sensation and a big hit

1:12.0

and then wrote her first non-fiction how to fail

1:15.7

which became an international bestseller and then eventually just a few months

1:21.6

ago released her second non-fiction,

1:24.0

fail-osophy, like fail-osophy, clever,

1:29.0

which I have to say is a must must read.

1:34.3

Of all of Elizabeth's work and analysis and studies

1:40.0

about failure, I think there's quite a bit of irony about how successful and truly admired

1:49.4

and loved she is.

1:51.6

We're going to be recording this conversation on Instagram live, which I intend to

1:57.9

be doing quite a few of in the future. So before we start get your Instagram out and find me on

2:05.8

Instagram Mo underscore Gaudet so that you can be part of those conversations

2:11.7

live in the future. I've been waiting for this one for quite a

2:16.7

while and I hope you're going to enjoy it.

2:21.5

There she is. Hello!

2:23.0

I've got ridiculous headphones.

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