S20, Ep18 Shania Twain - ‘There is no man that intimidates me’

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s guest has the biggest selling studio album ever in the UK by an international female artist. She has won five Grammys, sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and, at 58, remains the top-selling female country pop artist of all time. This year, she makes her Glastonbury debut in the coveted Legends slot, undertakes a new tour of the UK and Ireland and returns to Las Vegas for her third residency. And yet Shania Twain has battled adversity from a young age; her childhood was challenging and impoverished. From the age of eight, she was helping to support her family by singing in bars. Today, she is a cultural icon who has influenced a new wave of artists including Taylor Swift and Harry Styles. Shania and I talk about her inability to remember song lyrics, her failure to stick to the rules and the grief she felt after her parents died in a car accident. Plus, why recording Man, I Feel Like A Woman, was a transformative experience for how she felt about her own body and her own femininity. It was such an honour being in the same room as this total icon, and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. As always, I’d LOVE to hear about your failures. Every week, my guest and I choose a selection to read out and answer on our special subscription offering, Failing with Friends. We’ll endeavour to give you advice, wisdom, some laughs and much, much more. Have something to share of your own? I'd love to hear from you! Click here to get in touch: howtofailpod.com Production & Post Production Manager: Lily Hambly Studio and Mix Engineer: Gulliver Tickell and Josh Gibbs Producer: Hannah Talbot Executive Producer: Carly Maile 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	Now those of you who know me know that I'm very much about sisterhood and women supporting women and so are sweaty Betty.
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0:59.7	Head online or in store to find out more. Hello and welcome to how to Fail with me Elizabeth Day. This
1:16.7	podcast puts failure in the spotlight and asks us what we learn from the moments in
1:21.2	life that don't go according to plan.
1:24.0	Because I firmly believe that most failure can teach us something if we let it.
1:29.0	Every week I talk to a new guest about the times they failed and had their perspective on life and what
1:34.7	success really means was shaped along the way.
1:37.9	Before we begin, I just wanted to remind you about my subscriber series. This week in Failing with Friends I cover the stress of
1:45.3	full weekends away for hen do's, the difference between having a failure and feeling like a
1:50.8	failure, the importance of listening to your inner voice, a failure to have a baby
1:56.4	and to manage that at work, and much, much more. We'd love to hear from you.
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