It is, somewhat ironically, phenomenally successful.
The podcast is warm, funny and totally empathetic. It has been downloaded more than a million times and featured guests including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lily Allen and Dolly Alderton talking frankly and openly about the biggest fuck ups in their life thus far and what can be learned from them. And yet her most recent project is a podcast called How To Fail. How to Fail, Elizabeth Day Elizabeth Day is an award-winning journalist and novelist and, it must be said, an enormously successful person. There was a pressure to conform to the tidal wave of non-conformity." There was a pressure to conform to the tidal wave of non-conformity. Yet all around me, everyone else seemed to be having a wild time experimenting with drink, drugs and sexual partners, and I felt I should be doing the same. The duo chat about everyday mental health challenges and therapeutic topics in an accessible and reassuring way."That was the thing about my twenties: it was meant to be a decade of experimentation, but sometimes the experiments taught you nothing other than that you shouldn't have done it in the first place. In 2022, she launched a second podcast with her best friend, the psychotherapist Emma Reed-Turrell, called Best Friend Therapy. Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong was described by Alain de Botton as ‘beautiful, timely and humane.’ It is also a Sunday Times top 5 bestseller. The 2019/20 How To Fail Live nationwide tour played to multiple sell-out venues across the country, including dates at The London Palladium, The National Theatre and the Southbank Centre in London, and iconic venues such as The Lowry in Salford and The Mac in Belfast.Įlizabeth has written two books off the back of the podcast: How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong, is part-memoir, part-manifesto. In print, it has been featured in Grazia, The Times, Harper’s Bazaar, the Independent, the Guardian.
It was listed as one of BBC America’s Most Buzzworthy Podcasts of 2018. The podcast has been featured on multiple broadcast shows, including The Russell Howard Hour, The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, The Sara Cox Show and The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. In 2019 it won the Rising Star Award at the British Podcast Awards. In 2020, Elizabeth was given a prestigious Harper’s Bazaar ‘Women of the Year’ award for ‘bringing solace to the nation with her sensitivity and wit.’ Previous guests of How to Fail include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Malcolm Gladwell, Stanley Tucci, Jamie Dornan, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Scott, Adam Buxton and Bernadine Evaristo.
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