How to Cope with Being Awkward with Fern Brady

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author and comedian Fern Brady chats to Stevie and Tessa about how to accept and embrace your awkwardness rather than sit up til 5am thinking about that thing you said in 2009.

Find Fern on Twitter: @FernBrady and Instagram: @fernfrombathgate

Buy Fern's book 'Strong female Character' here.

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0:00.0	Hello, in to help us just sort of discuss how to how to cope with being awkward
0:25.4	and awkward situations is obviously comedian but now author. Not just
0:29.7	author, best selling author. Yeah. Number three. Yeah. It'll be number one next week.
0:35.4	And number one in the audio books? Yeah, yeah that surprised me because I really
0:40.4	when I did the audio book I felt like I was learning to read. Did you guys have that for your while? I really
0:45.0	when I did the audiobook I felt like I was learning to read.
0:46.0	Did you guys have that for your one? Yes, it was a really weird experience.
0:47.0	I thought my audiobook was going to be amazing and then I got this stinking cold
0:51.0	the week of doing it and I couldn't reschedule so it just was terrible and I remember
0:56.6	not wanting it to sound downbeat and depressed but people like the audio book.
1:01.3	Yeah you got a good voice.
1:02.3	You got a good voice.
1:02.5	You've got a beautiful voice. I'm so self-conscious of it because I have an English voice in my head
1:07.1	because I've lived in England for like 13 years. So whenever I hear my voice, it's quite a big gap between my inner monologue.
1:17.0	And I've gone really southern and posh and I've gone really southern and posh and I'm like,
1:21.0	oh God I sound like Dame Maggie Smith.
1:23.1	We haven't even said your name.
1:24.1	If you haven't realized, because you haven't read the title of the podcast,
1:27.5	or it's Fern Brady, of course.
1:29.3	It's Fern Brady.
1:29.3	It's Fern Brady.
1:30.5	Hello.
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