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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

S18, Ep5 Geri Halliwell-Horner on writing, grief - and what the Spice Girls taught her

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.79.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, I welcome the all-singing, all-writing, all-dancing POWERHOUSE that is Geri Halliwell-Horner. She started out as Ginger Spice, in the most iconic girl band of all time (simple facts), the Spice Girls, selling over 100 million records worldwide. After the birth of her first child in 2006, she started writing while a single mother and released a series of bestselling children’s books - the Ugenia Lavender novels. Now, she returns with the publication of the young adult novel Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen, a mixture of fantasy and history carrying a message that we can all be our own heroes. Geri joins me to talk about her love of writing (and why an early mentor was none other than William Boyd), not applying herself enough at school, why the Spice Girls belongs to everyone, how she dealt with grief after the death of her father and why it's morally important to her to 'age with grace and power.' Geri is my second ever Spice Girl on the podcast (the first was the amazing Melanie Chisholm) and it is a podcast goal of mine to have them all on as guests. They were such an amazing and empowering part of my teenage life. Three more to go. CAN YOU IMAGINE? IT WOULD BE A DREAM COME TRUE. -- Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen by Geri Halliwell-Horner is out now and available to order here. -- I'm going on tour! To AUSTRALIA, mate! You can now purchase tickets to see me live at Sydney Opera House on 26th February 2024 or the Arts Centre Melbourne on 28th February 2024. -- How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com -- Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabday How To Fail @howtofailpod Geri Halliwell-Horner @gerihalliwellhorner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.4

Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things

1:14.7

that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding

1:21.0

that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger, because learning how to fail in life actually

1:27.3

means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth

1:32.8

Day, and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.

1:39.4

The protagonist of the new young adult novel, Rosie Frost and the Fork and Queen, is a

1:44.8

girl with red hair who gets sent to a fantastical boarding school after her mother dies. One of

1:50.6

the school's rules is to have courage to make the choice you fear the most. The author

1:57.1

of the book just so happens to be a woman who is also famed for her red hair and who also

2:02.2

lost a parent at a formative age. She is, too, someone who has made many courageous choices

2:09.1

through an extraordinary career. Born in what food to a mom who cleaned in a car dealer

2:14.9

dad, Jerry Hallowell Horner shot to global fame as Ginger Spice, one-fifth of the Spice

2:20.8

Girls and the best-selling female pop group of all time. She is known for girl power for

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