Fearne Cotton
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week we bring you a conversation that has been on the cards for a long time! A TV and radio presenter turned businesswoman with her ever expanding brand of Happy Place, Fearne Cotton has both experienced and enabled big change in her life. One significant change for Fearne was making the decision to leave her job presenting one of the biggest shows on BBC Radio 1 after 10 years. Fearne and Annie were colleagues, and as part of this episode, they finally get a chance to revisit their time at the station together and explore their respective decisions to leave.
Curating her own world with Happy Place, Fearne is now an award winning podcaster, has a Happy Place festival, a publishing imprint and an app, all of which advocate for a wider conversation around mental health, self-care and helping people live happier lives. She’s also an author with multiple Sunday Times Best Sellers including her latest and most personal book, ‘Bigger Than Us’.
In this episode, as well as discussing Radio 1 days, Annie and Fearne discuss Fearne being CEO of her business, being women in the entertainment industry, bulimia, step parenting and much more.
You can get tickets to the Happy Place Festival and find out more about all things Happy Place here:
https://www.happyplaceofficial.co.uk/events/
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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. |
| 0:08.9 | A very nice man 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 a surprise to say I felt like a million dollars |
| 0:22.2 | driving it through London. 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 but basically it means |
| 0:29.7 | when you're doing shorter journeys you get all the benefits of an electric car |
| 0:33.6 | and then if you're doing a longer journey 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. |
| 0:50.8 | It's got a 10-inch touchscreen that has apple car play in it. |
| 0:54.3 | It's very modern, very stylish. |
| 0:56.2 | It kind of purrs when you drive and of course you can't |
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