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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

"We Are Afraid of Our Own Light" Bryony Gordon on Joining the Daily Mail, Criticism & Mental Health

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Bryony Gordon, journalist, author, and mental health advocate, recently faced criticism for joining the Daily Mail as a columnist. Despite the backlash, she vows to use her platform to raise awareness about mental health issues.0:00 Bryony has received criticism for moving to the Daily Mail03:45 Mo introduces Bryony05:40 Why was Bryony attacked on social media for joining the Mail?14:00 Mo's experience of online criticism 17:56 Bryony's critical voice in her head27:20 Why Bry...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.2

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.7

Welcome to Slo-Mob. What I find very uncomfortable and you see it as well in this conversation about Israel and

0:38.7

Gaza is the kind of dehumanization of people that don't do what you want them to do, you know?

0:48.6

So that like the good on the left, and I would describe myself politically as left of centre, like I will vote labour, I will,

0:56.7

do you know what I mean? But I've always worked in organizations that are right of center and I really cherish being in spaces that my

1:08.4

opinion is maybe not the norm.

1:11.3

A hundred percent.

1:12.3

That's the beauty of it.

1:14.0

And it's like, I always have this thing, it's like, well in a kind of, you know, in my dream easy world,

1:18.9

I just go off and write for the guardian and have an easy life, la, la, but that isn't, the guardian doesn't need me.

1:25.5

The people reading the guardian don't need me,

1:27.8

you know, and this idea as well that only people on the left

1:31.3

are allowed content about mental health is not.

1:36.7

I mean it's actually unwell in itself.

1:39.0

So like what makes you think that the 2 million people reading the mail online don't include

1:46.5

alcoholics who want to get better? Don't include people with eating disorders who want to

1:51.0

get better or people to brat, you know, like humans are humans, you know, and if we, if we kind of vilify and dehumanize and say, you're

2:05.0

don't come together you're never we're never gonna get better

2:10.0

don't you think that this is is this is deliberate that we divide in this way. I mean a big part of the

2:17.3

of the sign of our time is how the truth is sunk into division.

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