ON NAVIGATING YOUR 20s... With Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Lily Allen

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Welcome back to this How to Fail special where we journey through the archive to uncover insight and revisit powerful conversations. Each week, I hand-pick moments that speak to our shared challenges - hopefully offering comfort, clarity, and a renewed sense of perspective for whatever life might be throwing your way. Your 20s are notoriously a time of instability, during which you attempt to find yourself and figure out who you are. Which is why I wanted to bring you this episode! We hear from Phoebe Waller-Bridge who speaks about her rollercoaster 20s and the wisdom that hindsight has afforded her. Then the singer and actor Lily Allen shares her experiences of that decade which she lived out in the unforgiving glare of the public eye. Whether you're navigating this chapter yourself or walking alongside someone who is, I hope this episode offers a sense of solidarity, understanding and light in the darker moments. Listen to Phoebe Waller Bridge’s full episode of How to Fail here: https://link.chtbl.com/Vmnz_IXz Listen to Lily Allen full episode of How to Fail here: https://link.chtbl.com/7f_TpEQ6 🔗 LINKS + MENTIONS: Elizabeth’s Substack: https://theelizabethday.substack.com/ Join the How To Fail community: https://howtofail.supportingcast.fm/#content 💌 LOVE THIS EPISODE? Subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts Leave a 5⭐ review – it helps more people discover these stories 👋 Follow How To Fail & Elizabeth: Instagram: @howtofailpod @elizabday TikTok: @howtofailpod @elizabday Website: www.elizabethday.org Have a failure you’re trying to work through for Elizabeth to discuss? Click here to get in touch: howtofailpod.com How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sophie Tom and the kids are standing by the luggage carousel, waiting for Sophie's bag.
0:03.9	Looks like she's going to be wearing Tom's clothes for a week, but she's not worried.
0:07.5	Their HSBC Premier bank account has comprehensive worldwide travel insurance that covers them, the kids and grandkids, if they had them.
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0:22.1	Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier Status Broad,
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0:28.7	Age restrictions and limitations apply.
0:30.4	This episode is brought to you by Guide Dogs, the most incredible charity, which is all about taking part.
0:36.8	Guide Dogs helps people with sight loss
0:38.7	fulfill their ambitions, no matter how big or small. I want to urge you to go and watch a
0:43.8	beautiful little film they've created. It's just 60 seconds long that celebrates the
0:48.0	achievements of ordinary people with sight loss. You can watch it on the Guide Dogs website or
0:52.9	on YouTube. There's so much more to guide dogs
0:55.8	than the actual dogs themselves, who incidentally are the most remarkable animals. The amount of
1:01.8	skill, effort and love that goes into raising and training each one of them is huge. But guide dogs
1:07.3	is here to help people with sight loss in so many ways. They aim to help anyone with a vision impairment, live the life they choose, and are all about building confidence.
1:16.5	Anyone can help by donating, volunteering, or sponsoring a puppy.
1:20.7	To find out more about their life-changing services or how you can support their incredible work, search guide dogs or visit guidedogs.org.
1:30.3	UK.
1:31.3	Welcome to How to Failure to fail with me, Elizabeth Day.
1:44.6	Today I'm diving back into the archive to bring you a curated selection of some of my
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