One Thing with Emma Gannon on taking a year of NOTHING
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
As one of the top writers on Substack with The Hyphen, Sunday Times bestselling author Emma Gannon is well known for writing and podcasting about career/wellbeing however her latest book A Year of Nothing, couldn’t be more different.
In this memoir, release by indie publisher The Pound Project, Emma reveals what happened in 2022 when, despite having an award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete and ‘not even working crazily hard’ she suffered a breakdown brought on by existential burnout. Unable to look at a screen or even walk down the road, the famously productive entrepreneur then decided to take an unplanned year off. During this time Emma, who is also happy to speak about being child-free by choice, kept a diary and discovered how the most mundane parts of life were not only full of wisdom but also the most fun to write about and formed the basis of this new book.
A Year of Nothing, is available to buy for a limited time only between May 14 and June 4 through The Pound Project website.
You can also follow Emma on Instagram
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Here's the truth about AI. |
| 0:02.0 | AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. |
| 0:05.0 | Service now puts AI to work for people across your business, |
| 0:09.0 | removing friction and frustration for your employees, |
| 0:12.0 | supercharging productivity for your developers, |
| 0:15.6 | providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier. |
| 0:19.7 | All built into a single platform you can use right now. That's why the world works with |
| 0:25.0 | Service Now. Visit Service Now.com slash UK slash AI for people. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the therapy edit with me psych therapists mom of three and author Anna Martha |
| 0:37.0 | every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere. |
| 0:46.3 | So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom. |
| 0:50.3 | I hope you enjoy it. Hi everyone, welcome to today's guest episode of the Therapy Edit and I have with me today Emma Gannon. |
| 1:00.0 | Now I just had to click record because we were, we've just been chatting away for the last 10 minutes and I just yeah |
| 1:05.9 | Didn't want to lose out on the gold but Emma is someone who has so much gold to give she takes a life experiences and turns them into books full of wisdom. |
| 1:15.6 | She's I've got many of her books. I've read her book called Disconnected. How to stay human in an |
| 1:20.7 | online world, the success myth she's she written as well, how to let go of having it all. |
| 1:26.7 | She's also written sabotage because this is a topic I love thinking and talking about as well. How to silence your inner critic and get out of your own way. |
| 1:36.3 | She's also got, she's an absolute book machine. She's also got a novel called Olive. |
| 1:40.8 | Now that's about four friends kind of navigating parenting and |
| 1:44.4 | it's one of the friends that is childless, so it's all about the dynamics around |
| 1:47.8 | that and yeah just go and immerse yourself in her brilliant book. She is one of the top writers on Substack with the hyphen. |
| 1:55.6 | She is a Sunday Times best-selling author and she is well known for writing and |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Anna Mathur, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Anna Mathur and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.