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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

TW: eating disorders

All this week, I'll be dropping the recordings of our How To Fail live shows, held at Shoredtich Town Hall earlier this year.

Now, I know we shouldn't have favourites. Having a podcast and labelling one of your episodes as your 'favourite' is akin to choosing your preferred child. But, sod it, this is one of my favourite conversations of all time. Caitlin Moran is as brilliant, witty and generous as you might expect. Here, she talks about the terrible sadness of realising her daughter had an eating disorder and how she didn't deal with it in the right way at first. She also talks about childhood insecurities, learning to love herself, the joy of female solidarity and plenty more. You will laugh. But you might also cry, so do bring some tissues.

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This podcast was recorded on 6th October 2022 in Shoreditch Town Hall and is sponsored by Sweaty Betty. You have a chance to get 20% off everything until 14th December with the code HOWTOFAIL20. That’s 20% off everything until 14th December with the code HOWTOFAIL20 on sweatybetty.com
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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things
0:19.2	that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding
0:25.5	that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger because learning how to fail in life actually means
0:32.2	learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every
0:38.4	week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure. I'm so delighted that
0:44.9	this evening's recording is sponsored by Sweaty Betty. Yes! I'm sure many of you in the audience
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0:57.1	to empower women through fitness and beyond. I personally wear their clothes all the time and I'm
1:03.5	a massive fan of their best selling power leggings. So good that they sell one pair every 30 seconds.
1:08.4	I love the way that they make me feel held and empowered with full-way stretch for extra comfort.
1:14.0	They're so versatile you can wear them for almost anything. A spin class, a yoga session or
1:19.4	a dance with friends and there's lots of clever little details like pockets I can slip my phone into.
1:24.9	They are bomb sculpting, sweat wicking and quick drying. Truly everything you could ever need in a pair of leggings.
1:32.1	You have a chance to get 20% of everything until the 14th of December with the code How to Fail 20.
1:40.6	That's 20% of everything until the 14th of December with the code How to Fail 20 on SweatyBetty.com,
1:47.4	terms and conditions apply and can be found on SweatyBetty.com. Now, when I was 12,
1:55.3	I remember hearing a teenage girl being interviewed on the radio about a book she'd written.
2:00.6	She was 16 and her debut novel The Chronicles of Namo had just been published.
2:06.3	In the interview the writer was funny and smart and brilliant and because I too wanted to write books
2:13.3	and be a journalist, I took note of her name. It was Catlin Moran. In the three decades that followed,
2:20.9	I watched her career with a mixture of all and jealousy. She became one of the most prolific and
2:28.2	influential newspaper columnists of the modern age, a best-selling author who changed the face
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