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Quillette Podcast

Founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay on the history and future of Quillette

Quillette Podcast

Quillette

Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6917 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how and why she created Quillette, and her plans for its future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.

0:08.0

Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

0:15.3

Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,

0:18.8

associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by visiting

0:24.6

Patreon.com forward slash quillet and becoming a monthly patron. By becoming a

0:29.6

monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.

0:32.4

Welcome to this 100 patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.

0:33.0

Welcome to this 100th edition of the Quillett Podcast.

0:37.0

I'm Jonathan Kay speaking to you from Toronto.

0:40.0

It's been almost two years since we launched this podcast.

0:43.0

Episode number one aired on November 8, 2018, under the title,

0:47.8

Jordan Peterson on the Dreadful Attraction of Utopian Ideas.

0:52.0

Since then, our first 99 episodes have been downloaded more than 2 million

0:56.0

times. Thank you to all our listeners who have turned what was originally a side project

1:01.2

into a popular franchise in and of itself.

1:04.4

For this 100th episode, we've got something special.

1:07.0

An interview with the woman who made this all possible when she started Colette on a whim in late 2015.

1:14.0

I am speaking of course about my boss,

1:16.3

Claire Lehman, who spoke to me this week

1:18.6

from her home in Sydney, Australia.

1:23.4

I know that it's considered politically suspect to ask female executives about work life balance because

1:31.1

men typically don't get asked that.

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