Everything you need to know about regret. [Spoiler Alert] It can be your greatest guide...
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Recently, I’ve had a few of those awful dark nights of the soul. The ones where you can’t sleep because your brain is on that setting where it’s showing you all the mistakes you’ve made, all the things you did and are doing wrong and all the ways in which you are screwing up. Spoiler alert - your thoughts are not facts.
However, that’s not to say that life’s experiences don’t all add up to series of lessons and while it can be unpleasant to revisit the parts of yourself riddled with error, that can often be where you find the really helpful, enlightening and magical stuff.
I was on the brink of being drowned by my negative thoughts when I remembered my conversation with Daniel Pink. You may have heard him on one of the many huge podcasts lately, but back in 2022, Daniel and I unpicked the many ways in which regret leads to growth. It was a helpful conversation then and I believe it is just as helpful now.
Don’t fear regret, embrace it. It might be an unconventional view, but it sure beats staring at the ceiling at 2am feeling rubbish about yourself…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome. I am your host, Emiggen-Awardner, and in my nearly 20-year career as a beauty and health writer, I have interviewed a lot of people. Supermodels, entrepreneurs, authors, celebrities and doctors, and many of these conversations had a real impact on me and I'd come away feeling inspired, |
| 0:22.1 | excited, informed and really empowered. And at the back of my mind, I'd always think, |
| 0:26.8 | I wish I could just publish the tape so people could really feel that conversation. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, on this podcast, you get to feel the conversation. I talk with experts, guests and a few |
| 0:36.0 | friends who I hope will inspire, inform and empower you, |
| 0:39.4 | and maybe also challenge you, whether you're looking for self-help, self-improvement, beauty |
| 0:43.5 | advice, health insights, business know-how, or just some good old-fashioned life advice and a bit of a |
| 0:48.5 | laugh. It's all here. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:52.7 | My guest in this episode is the author Daniel H. Pink, and I'm going to level with you listeners. |
| 0:58.4 | I loved this conversation, but that's not to say the content is entirely easy or comfortable. |
| 1:07.0 | But that actually has been a bit of a theme recently. |
| 1:10.0 | I feel very lucky that of late I've had some |
| 1:12.2 | incredibly fascinating guests on the show who have explored some quite uncomfortable topics |
| 1:17.2 | in extremely helpful ways. So there was Dr. Tracy Dennis Tuari discussing anxiety, Dr. Tracy Shaw was |
| 1:24.3 | explaining her research into trauma and Dr. Nate Zinzer's analysis of how |
| 1:28.3 | to cultivate a more confident mind. All of these discussions involved one thing, which is also |
| 1:34.0 | common in this conversation with Daniel about regret. Being honest with yourself about your |
| 1:38.8 | role in whatever situation you find yourself in and being accountable for the work required to help yourself. |
| 1:45.5 | The crucial part of that, of course, is sitting with these negative feelings and emotions when |
| 1:50.4 | they arise, analysing them, learning from them and using them positively. So regret. So Daniel's |
| 1:57.3 | book, The Power of Regret, how Looking Backward, Moves Us Forward. |
| 2:05.2 | Regret is an interesting subject and honestly, I don't think I've ever considered it, |
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