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Happy Place

Erling Kagge

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.615.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Silence can seem quite frightening to many people - but not Erling Kagge. You wouldn't think the explorer, lawyer, art collector, entrepreneur, politician, author and publisher has any time on his hands to sit in silence but, as he tells Fearne, that's the secret of his many successes.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place.

0:05.0

Now, every now and then I introduce you to someone who is an absolute game changer.

0:11.0

Today is one of those episodes.

0:14.0

When I think about you know, with my oldest daughter she had this painter's stomach.

0:20.0

And every night the mother of me had to carry her back and forth the floor in over flat.

0:25.0

It was terrible, it was like torture.

0:28.0

But today many years later I think about those nice as some of the happiest in my life.

0:33.0

It's Erling Kagger and he's well quite a lot of things actually including a polar explorer,

0:39.0

a entrepreneur, a lawyer, and an art dealer, not bad eh.

0:44.0

But what we're talking about is silence.

0:49.0

Tricky for a podcast but we're going to embrace it.

0:52.0

Now a massive thank you to the sponsor of this episode, Betest.

0:56.0

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0:59.0

I wash my hair once, maybe twice a week.

1:04.0

But there are absolutely times when I'm honestly so busy that washing and drying it

1:09.0

falls to the bottom of my priority list.

1:11.0

So boring washing hair.

1:13.0

Which is why I love Betest.

1:15.0

You know them, the inventors of the gorgeous dry shampoo.

1:18.0

They now have a game changing, leave in dry conditioner.

1:23.0

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1:24.0

This is incredible news.

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