Elizabeth Day: Your Twenties Shape the Best Years Of Your Life | GREAT MOMENTS
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Your twenties can feel like A LOT.
There’s a pressure to find a job that you love, show up perfectly in your friendships and relationships… and somehow keep up with everyone else. It’s hard not to compare yourself when everyone else seems to have it figured out.
Author, journalist and host of the award-winning podcast How to Fail, Elizabeth Day understands that feeling all too well.
In this Great Moment, she reflects on how each decade of her life has shaped her, and why reframing the way we think about success is so important.
She explains how comparison can fuel self-doubt, and why the lessons we learn along the way are what truly matter.
Because ultimately, life isn’t a sprint it’s a marathon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey guys, how you doing? Welcome back to another great moments. I hope you're having a great day, |
| 0:13.6 | whatever you're doing. Now, today we're sharing a little slice of my conversation with my |
| 0:18.4 | very good friend and friend within the industry, Elizabeth Day. |
| 0:23.1 | Now, Elizabeth Day, she's an author. She's a podcaster. She has a podcast called How to Fail. |
| 0:27.7 | And actually, I don't think she knows this, but she was the first person to sort of champion me. |
| 0:32.1 | Coming from Made in Chelsea, kind of a little bit like Marmite and definitely Marmite within the industry, |
| 0:38.5 | but she was the one who asked me onto her podcast to talk about my three failures. |
| 0:43.0 | And still to this day, I get comments about it. |
| 0:45.6 | So I've got to thank Elizabeth Day a lot for that. |
| 0:48.8 | Now, I think many of us in our 20s feel like we're kind of failing. |
| 0:52.1 | I definitely did. |
| 0:53.2 | I know that a lot of us feel like we're |
| 0:54.5 | comparing ourselves to everyone else. And I did that as well, especially with social media that |
| 0:59.5 | happens a lot. Elizabeth knows that feeling too. So in this great moment, she talks about the |
| 1:04.6 | pressure to keep up in the rat race that can define your 20s. But actually, she believesie's power comes with age. So if you're feeling |
| 1:12.2 | behind or you're feeling like you're not quite where you should be, this great moment is for you. |
| 1:18.0 | And don't forget, okay, if you like this, check out our other amazing guests on Great |
| 1:21.1 | Company. Just search Great Company wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like this little |
| 1:26.2 | snippet, go and click on the show notes |
| 1:28.4 | and listen to the full episode. Okay, here it is. Enjoy this. It's Elizabeth Day on Great |
| 1:34.3 | Moments. Walk me through the decade. So why were your teen years tricky? Why is that a tricky |
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