Feb 9
ON FINDING LOVE AT ANY AGE… With Luke Evans and Dolly Alderton
We’re taught that love should happen early, and if it doesn’t, something’s gone wrong. But what if that’s not true? In this episode, we hear from past How to Fail guests who found love later, or in their own time. Luke Evans reflects on meeting his soulmate in his forties and Dol ... Show More
28m 20s
Feb 4
Shabaz Ali - ‘I’ll be a diversity quota as long as I get paid’
A few years ago, Shabaz Ali was a chemistry teacher in Blackburn. Today, he’s one of the internet’s most beloved creators, best known as Shabaz Says, with millions of fans and a knack for skewering the most outrageous (and often tasteless) displays of online excess. Since quittin ... Show More
49m 2s
Apr 2021
BOOK CLUB: It Ends With Us
Hiya! Happy Saturday!
This month, we tucked into the heart-shattering 2016 novel, It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover. It Ends With Us tells the story of an unusual love triangle between protagonist Lily, her first high school romance Atlas, and neurosurgeon Ryle. It’s a page-turni ... Show More
37m 37s
Apr 2021
IN CONVERSATION: Yumiko Kadota
Gooooood morning, wonderful listeners!
Today on the show, we bring you the brave Yumiko Kadota. Yumiko, as you’d read in her new memoir Emotional Female, has been an over-achiever her entire life, studying medicine at university and deciding to enter the perilous surgical stream ... Show More
42m 3s
Feb 2023
#259: That Sucked, Now What? Cultivating Resilience with Dr. Neeta Bhushan
Themes: Grief, Loss, Transformation, Resilience, Anger Summary: Today I’m chatting with Dr. Neeta Bhushan, a world-renowned emotional health advocate and expert in the areas of grit and resilience. In this episode, we talk about her new book That Sucked. Now What?: How to Embrace ... Show More
1h 20m
Jan 2021
Oprah Winfrey: BROKEN OPEN
<p>Job loss, addiction, a break up, the death of a loved one, illness… these are the kinds of struggles that have the potential to break us wide open. Oprah says that before you ask the question <em>Why me, Why me</em>? Realize that nothing is happening out of order. Your life i ... Show More
41m 1s
Feb 2022
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “I Love You, Even When You’re Mad” Edition
On this week’s episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a complicated question about navigating unwanted attention—especially if the attention may be chalked up to a child’s appearance. Then they are joined by Deborah Farmer Kris, parent educator, education journalist, childre ... Show More
47m 31s
When I started this podcast, I had a list of dream guests.* At the top was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her third novel, Americanah, is one of my favourite books of all time. I can remember exactly where I was when I read it. I was moved by the power of its epic sweep, the brilliance of its observations and the characters who made your heart break.But although ... Show More
<p>OMFG — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/jessa.hastings">Jessa freaking Hastings</a> is on So Into That this week!!!!!</p><p>Jessa is the brilliant author of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.magnoliaparksuniverse.com">Magnolia Parks book series</a>, an ... Show More
