Emma Gannon
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
How do you change your relationship with success? Writer and podcaster Emma Gannon has written a new book called ‘The Success Myth’ which, for one, has changed how Annie looks at her life. After experiencing burn out, Emma has become even more passionate about debunking the traditional ideas of success.
Emma is a Sunday Times bestselling author with five books to date, including The Multi-Hyphen Method, Sabotage, Disconnected and her novel Olive. In 2018, she was selected in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in media. She has been a columnist for the Times, the Telegraph and Elle and also writes a popular weekly newsletter on SubStack called The Hyphen that is an exploration of ideas that have got her thinking in new ways. Through her careers podcast ‘Ctrl, Alt, Delete’ she has spoken to hundreds of people about their work and idea of success. Clearly, Emma is successful. However, she found that traditional markers of success did not make her happy. So, what was the problem? In this conversation, Emma discusses helpful things she’s learnt about changing our idea of success, burn out, her decision to not have children and much more.
You can buy The Success Myth here: https://linktr.ee/thesuccessmyth
Find out more about all of Emma's projects here: https://linktr.ee/emmagannonuk
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by the new Alpha Romeo |
| 0:03.2 | Tanali plug-in hybrid. Ooh, get us. |
| 0:06.8 | Now I recently had the chance to drive the car, a very nice man. |
| 0:09.8 | Let me have one for 24 hours. |
| 0:11.8 | And it was green and shiny and gorgeous. |
| 0:14.3 | And I was into it because green for Ireland. |
| 0:16.8 | If I had more car tech speak, I would tell you it, |
| 0:19.2 | but just as suffice to say, I felt like a million dollars |
| 0:22.2 | driving it through London. |
| 0:23.6 | So this is a plug-in hybrid. |
| 0:25.6 | I wasn't too sure what this meant before I tried it, |
| 0:27.8 | or how it would work. |
| 0:28.8 | But basically, it means when you're doing shorter journeys, |
| 0:31.1 | you get all the benefits of an electric car. |
| 0:33.6 | And then if you're doing a longer journey, |
| 0:35.5 | it uses the petrol engine. |
| 0:37.1 | It actually automatically takes over. |
| 0:39.3 | So if the battery needs to be charged, you don't have to worry. |
| 0:41.6 | As the car will automatically do it. |
| 0:44.3 | Yes, that's what I need. |
| 0:45.9 | The flexibility is very, very handy there. |
| 0:48.8 | The car itself has all these amazing features. |
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