Jamie Oliver

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

There’s never going to be anything comfortable about facilitating change, but if we deeply care about a cause we should do it nonetheless. As well as entertaining the nation on TV, Jamie Oliver has spent decades learning about, and fighting for, healthier food policies. In this chat, Fearne and Jamie explore how failure can ignite more fire in your belly, and why a little optimistic naivety might initiate more ground-breaking change than a measured approach.

Jamie’s new recipe book is called Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy, and is available to buy now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. The podcast that delves a little deeper into the
0:06.6	hidden worlds of people we might think we know well. I'm Fern cotton and today I'm
0:11.6	chatting to Jamie Oliver. It's really hard to teach that failure is the most
0:16.7	precious commodity. Like that shapes you, that creates a memory in your brain that
0:21.7	sticks like just coasting stuff is nothing. Even my biggest failures and I've had
0:28.4	quite a few have carried incredible value and merit and if it changes you in a
0:34.2	positive way from their onwards then I think you can take it as a positive.
0:39.1	Jamie very kindly invited me to his gorgeous office in North London for our chat.
0:44.0	It's stunning. There's obviously tons of food you walk in and you're hit by the
0:50.2	most sensational smells. There's very happy people walking around everywhere.
0:54.6	Everyone loves working there. It's a beautiful office with pots and pans hanging on
0:59.5	walls and a huge kitchen area and so far areas to sit and enjoy free cake. It really
1:04.5	is the dream. Seeing him in the beating heart of his world like that was so lovely.
1:09.9	He's been doing all of this cooking TV activism around food and poverty for
1:14.8	decades now. So it's brilliant to see firsthand how much fire he still got inside
1:20.3	of him. What was really interesting though was hearing what it is that continues to
1:25.2	motivate him to keep pushing for change even when it gets hard. In fact even when
1:31.1	he himself doesn't enjoy the work. Lots of great little life lessons in here
1:35.6	about why there's never going to be anything comfortable about facilitating
1:39.1	change but we should advocate for it anyway because it's the right thing to do.
1:43.4	Hi it's Natty here from Growing Up with Gaudem. Will we invite friends of Gaudem to
1:50.0	respond to old diary entries, text messages or letters from their younger
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