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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day How to Fail
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4.7 • 496 Ratings
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How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things in life that haven’t gone right and what we might learn from them along the way. Every week, Elizabeth’s guest explores three failures, and what these failures have taught them about how to grow and succeed, better. We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with Elizabeth to share your failures, problems or questions - anonymously or otherwise. She'll go through these each week with the help of her very special guests. And remember: a fail shared is a fail halved. https://forms.sonymusicfans.com/campaign/how-to-fail-uk-2023/ An Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Original Production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastsales@sonymusic.com
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‘A member of my family had an affair with my then boyfriend’
‘There is good in every situation’ - Danny O’Donoghue gives the best advice. This bonus episode looks at a listener who has lost a parent early and the heartbreak that has come with that, alongside the growth a listener has experienced, following adversity.
As ever, I’m so thankful to you for taking the time to write in and please keep them coming. I love hearing from you and my guests are often surprised at how good they are at giving advice!
Do you have something to share of your own? 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
Head of Marketing: Kieran Lancini
How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.
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Danny O’Donoghue - ‘Lean into every feeling’
Danny O’Donoghue is best known as the lead singer of The Script and a former coach on singing talent show The Voice. But the last year of his life has been overshadowed by personal tragedy: the death of his bandmate and best friend Mark Sheehan at the age of 46.
In his first full-length interview since Mark’s death, Danny opens up about how he navigated grief, how he spiralled into alcohol abuse and how he managed to find a way to survive through therapy and faith.
It’s an extraordinary story, movingly told with great profundity.
Danny’s failures include failing music in school and dropping out (he was finally diagnosed with Dyslexia earlier this year), the failure of his first record deal and failing to look after himself physically and spiritually as an adult.
Thank you, Danny, for being so open and for your willingness to show a vulnerability that I know will help many others who are struggling with loss.
As always, I’m desperate 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
Head of Marketing: Kieran Lancini
How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.
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Introducing How To Write a Book: Episode 1 - The Idea (Part 1)
In this first episode of How to Write a Book, Elizabeth Day’s new podclass series, hosts Sara Collins, Sharmaine Lovegrove and Nelle Andrew discuss coming up with ideas.
Just where do ideas for books come from? How do you know if they’re any good, or even if they’re right for you to pursue? Our expert podclass provides answers to all of this - and even a lesson in how to know when your idea might be ready to send to an agent.
And we could not have a more experienced bunch to guide you on this journey. Sara Collins is the bestselling novelist and screenwriter currently serving as a judge for the 2024 Booker Prize. Her debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, won the Costa book awards in 2019 and she later wrote the TV screenplay. Nelle Andrew is a literary agent and former Agent of the Year at the
British Book Awards, and Sharmaine Lovegrove is the co-founder and managing director of Dialogue Books, an inclusive imprint at a major publishing house. Each of them is an expert in one stage of the publishing journey…. and all are literary nerds (in the best possible way).
Together, Sara, Sharmaine and Nelle are your on-hand writing community giving you the push you need to get started on that novel, memoir, or piece of non fiction you've always dreamed of writing.
We hope you enjoy our part 1 & part 2 on IDEA. If you don’t want to wait for next week’s episode, you can subscribe now and binge them all at once by tapping ‘subscribe’. You’ll get to listen to all episodes ad-free and get exclusive subscriber access to How To Fail and Failing With Friends.
Books discussed in these episodes include:
•The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
•The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
•Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
•Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
•The Color Purple by Alice Walker
•Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day
•Paradise City by Elizabeth Day
•Magpie by Elizabeth Day
We also talk about Christopher Booker, Kit de Waal, The Seven Basic Plots and Michael Crichton’
Executive produced by Elizabeth Day for Daylight Productions and Carly Maile for Sony Music Entertainment.
Produced by Imogen Serwotka.
Please do get in touch with us, your writing community, with thoughts, feedback and more at: howtowriteabook.daylight@gmail.com
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Friends with benefits, dealing with an absent parent and To Botox or Not To Botox?
Sara Cox joins me to answer your questions on how to deal with a friend who is prioritising her sex life, how to deal with an absent father, and whether facial injectables and/or plastic surgery are ok.
As ever, I’m so thankful to you for taking the time to write in and please keep them coming. I love hearing from you and my guests are often surprised at how good they are at giving advice!
Do you have something to share of your own? 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
Head of Marketing: Kieran Lancini
How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.
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Sara Cox - ‘So much good has come from the bad things that have happened to me'
Sara Cox is a broadcaster and author. You might have grown up with her on Radio 1’s iconic Breakfast Show. You might remember her being one of the first so-called ‘ladettes’ (and if you do, we talk about how much she hates this word in the episode). You might have read one of her bestselling books - she wrote a memoir in 2019, followed by two novels, the most recent of which, Way Back, was published in March.
She’s now the host of the most listened to radio show in Europe: BBC Radio 2’s tea time, as well as being on our screens at the helm of the hugely successful TV books show, Between the Covers. But her upbringing was far removed from media luvviedom: she comes from a Lancashire farming family and spent her childhood shuttling between her divorced parents - her father’s farm and her mother’s pub. We talk about how these early experiences affected her and what she learned from her parents’ break-up. We also discuss her failure to farm, her failure to believe she’s ACTUALLY an author and an early career failure to control Sacha Baron Cohen when he was a live guest on Radio 1 (and the media’s misogynistic treatment of Cox in the aftermath).
As always, I’m desperate 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
Head of Marketing: Kieran Lancini
How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.
Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts
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I wear tinted moisturiser - but careful, no f***ing shimmer
This week, Danny Dyer gives us excellent advice, including how to get a glow-on in the mornings and whether or not one listener should go on a reality TV show. Plus: we answer your emails and discuss moving abroad, feeling stuck and why everyone has talent.
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How to Fail Live presented by Hayu: https://mailer.brackets.digital/h/r/44ABE7D32748CB322540EF23F30FEDED
Production & Post Production Manager: Lily Hambly
Studio and Mix Engineer: Gulliver Tickell and Josh Gibbs
Senior Producer: Selina Ream
Executive Producer: Carly Maile
Head of Marketing: Kieran Lancini
How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.
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Customer Reviews
Wow…
I feel rather selfish that we are on the 20th series and having never missed an episode, I am only writing a review now. I think I always wanted to, but could never quite articulate how much I really love this podcast…
What I need to express firstly is my Gratitude at the quality content that I get for FREE… I find this podcast remarkable. Elizabeth is an exceptionally skilled interviewer. Her own vulnerability brings the same out in her guests. At this point I feel Elizabeth is my friend as I rejoice in her good news stories and achievements, and emotionally remember and admire how much she has conquered and overcome to get to where she is today. Elizabeth you are my inspiration and thank you.
The podcast is a perfect length, it is funny, laugh out loud, sad, and many more emotions but never boring. The mix of guests of great. It has opened my mind to all sorts of people and lifestyles… I look forward to every episode and remember fondly where I was in the world for some of the more memorable ones… Good luck with the next 20 x
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I’m a regular listener & enjoy all episodes whether I know interviewee or not. Find interviews engaging funny & at times heartfelt. Keep it going Elizabeth….great show!
Inspirational and heartwarming
I haven’t listened to this podcast in a while and for some reason tuned in today and heard the inspirational Dr Gladys Mc Garry, a 102 year old woman whose outlook on life was exactly what I needed to hear at this point in mine. Thank you.