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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

S9, Ep6 How to Fail: Failosophy Special

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.79.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

***SPECIAL EPISODE KLAXON***To mark the publication of my new book, Failosophy, I take a trip down memory lane and share my favourite moments from the How To Fail archive, featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mo Gawdat, Alain de Botton and many, many more. AND I discuss the three personal failures that many lovely listeners sent in - they're funny and insightful and moving (best have a hankie nearby, is all I'm saying).Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to write in and to all of you for listening. I love and appreciate you more than I can say.*Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is published on 1st October and is available here*I am doing a LIVE show at the newly Covid-secure London Palladium on 2nd October at 6.30pm UK time. It is also live-streamed online. If you'd like to buy tickets for either option, you can do so here.*How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com You can buy our fantastic PODCAST MERCH here.* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayHow To Fail @howtofailpod      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of How To Fail is sponsored by Missoma, my go-to jewelry brand.

0:06.4

Now, I was introduced to Missoma by a very, very close friend of mine and I have barely gone

0:12.3

a day without wearing a piece of her jewelry since. They really are amazing.

0:16.7

And Missoma know that every piece of jewelry a woman wears tells a part of her story, her

0:21.5

successes, her celebrations, and of course her failures. The earrings she bought with her

0:26.7

first paycheck, the surprise picked me up present from her best friend after that rubbish breakup,

0:31.6

the matching bracelets they got on that wild holiday refusing to take them off for months.

0:37.4

As we grow so too does our armour. From past loves to career milestones,

0:42.4

morning to night, we wear our treasured moments, knowing they have shaped the person we have become.

0:49.4

Missoma are on a mission to build a more confident, creative and collaborative world,

0:54.3

starting a chain reaction, one link at a time. I'm thrilled to share to all listeners of How To

1:01.1

Fail a very exclusive 15% off now when you use Elizabeth Day 15 on missoma.com. Thank you very much to Missoma.

1:24.9

Hello and welcome to How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, the podcast that celebrates the things that

1:31.9

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

1:38.0

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

1:44.8

learning how to succeed better. I'm your host author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every week

1:51.3

I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.

1:56.2

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of How To Fail. It's special because, well,

2:02.4

there are no guests, at least not new ones. We'll be hearing from some old friends and we'll also

2:08.4

be hearing from the most important people of all. That's you. This is a special episode to mark

2:14.8

the publication of my new book, Philosophy, a handbook for when things go wrong, which is out

2:20.6

tomorrow. See what I did there? Philosophy, not philosophy. I will never, ever let a pongo unmade.

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