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Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.

My guest today is a journalist and editor of more than 20 years.

In 1995, she was named the Guardian's student journalist of the year after launching a magazine while at the University of East Anglia.

She landed her first post from Fleet Street at the same title,

joining as a columnist and features assistant, before moving to the evening standard and then British Vogue, where she served as deputy editor.

Describing her time at the fashion Bible, she said, Vogue was unbelievably fun and glamorous, I took for granted how much support I had, plus the parties I went to, the clothes I had access to, the people I met.

In 2013, a picture she posted to Instagram for her sister on her wedding day went viral.

The reason? Her brother-in-lawed David Cameron, the then Prime Minister, was napping in the background.

But least as she is in the news for another reason, as the editor of the evening standard, one of a raft of new female newspaper editors.

She has taken the reins at a challenging time.

Her predecessor George Osborne describes the current pandemic as the paper's greatest crisis.

My guest today is Emily Sheffield.

So, Emily, thank you very much for joining us today. On this podcast,

we like to begin by briefly talking about your early life. One question we ask most people is

ultimately, would you describe your childhood as a happy one? Mostly, yes. As a child, definitely. I grew up

in the countryside with my mother and my stepfather. I have an amazing stepfather.

Lots of younger siblings. I was outside the whole time. I had huge imagination. I was always

running around the garden, pretending to be an animal, actually. That's my biggest memory of my childhood.

My teen years, I guess, I became more frustrated. I think I was always one of those people who wanted to grow up very fast and wanted the big adult life.

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