How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - How to Fail: End of Season 1

Episode Date: August 30, 2018

A thank you from Elizabeth for listening to the first season of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day and a sneak peek of the guests lined up for season two. See you in October! How To Fail is hosted by Elizabeth Day and produced by Chris Sharp How To Fail is sponsored by Moorish The Party by Elizabeth Day is published by 4th Estate  Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabdayChris Sharp @chrissharpaudioMoorish @moorishhumous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let's go seize the night. That's the powerful backing of American Express. Visit amex.ca slash yamex. Benefits vary by card, other conditions apply. Hello, it's Elizabeth Day here, author, journalist and host of How to Fail. This is a little farewell note after eight episodes of the first season of the podcast. We will be back in October with a new range of incredible interviewees, including Michelle Hussain, the Radio 4 presenter, and Jesse Burton,

the best-selling novelist, Alastair Campbell, former spin doctor for Tony Blair, and Deborah Frances White, who is the host of the Guilty Feminist podcast. So I hope you tune back in then. I just wanted to say also on a more personal note, how incredibly thrilled and moved I have been to hear so many of you connecting with How To Fail. It started off as such a personal idea and it was really quite a small notion I had that myself, having learned from failure in my own life, I thought maybe other people would connect with the idea. But I genuinely, when I put the podcast out there, thought that maybe if I was lucky, 12 people would listen, including my parents. And to see it connect on the scale that it has has been a really emotional and wonderful journey for me so I'm recording this before the final two episodes of season one of how to fail have aired and we've got 90 000 downloads downloads already. And we are just so, so thrilled that you have all

downloaded, listened, shared your opinions, rated us, reviewed us. I cannot thank you enough. It is incredibly meaningful for me to get your messages. And I think it just shows that we all really wanted to talk about failure, about in this age of Instagram and filtered selfies and Pinterest boards and people striving to live what seems to be perfect lives. I think we all really hanker after vulnerability and open and honest discussions of what we've learned when things haven't gone right, as well as when things have.

So that was it, really. I just wanted to thank you all so much for listening. And I hope that you tune in again when we're back in October. And I also want to thank Moorish Hummus for sponsoring us. The amount of my friends who have come up to me and said that they cannot stop laughing every time they hear me say baba ganoush. That has been quite something. But Moorish Hummus is a completely delicious and if you haven't eaten it, you must. You really, really must. So I'd also like to thank my wonderful interviewees who gave up their time to speak to me so eloquently and so funnily. And a lot of them just did it as a favour to a friend.

And I am so grateful to you all. Thank you. And I also want to thank my amazing producer, Chris Sharp, who is really the power behind it all and is such a lovely man and makes it sound so special and studio level quality every time that we do it. So without getting too Gwyneth Paltrow at the Oscars, I just want to say a final thank you. Thank you for enjoying it. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing your own stories and I hope to see you all again in October. Bye.