How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Every success story you've ever been told is incomplete. How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is the part they leave out. Each week, Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Elizabeth Day sits down with someone extraordinary - and asks them about the moments that didn’t go according to plan and how these failures shaped them. Kate Winslet on body image. Malala Yousafzai on rewriting her story. Pamela Anderson on refuting shame. Phoebe Waller-Bridge on creativity. Salman Rushdie on survival. Emilia Clarke on fame. What happens when the people you most admire stop performing and start telling the truth? Five hundred episodes in, we're still finding out. With sold-out nights at the London Palladium and Sydney Opera House, millions of listeners worldwide, and a British Podcast Award to its name, How To Fail is one of the UK's most successful podcasts. And yes, we're aware of the irony. Pick an episode. Start anywhere. An Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment production. All guest booking is manag

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Every guest on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

324 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Nicole LePera The Holistic Psychologist
S10, Ep5 How to Fail: Dr Nicole LePera, The Holistic Psychologist · Mar 2021

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Melanie C
S15, Ep3 How To Fail: Melanie Chisholm on mental health, self-worth and the Spice Girls · Sep 2022

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Steven Bartlett
S13, Ep2 How To Fail: Steven Bartlett · Jan 2022

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Jay Shetty
S17, Ep2 Jay Shetty on failing to fit in, learning to love and how to survive heartbreak · May 2023

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