Okay, confession time, I've never been big into business podcasts. As part of my own learning journey for pg I listened to some popular ones, and the ones i enjoyed you can find in our free resources list here. I was delighted to discover How to Fail with Elizabeth Day offers insights into the human experience and the business lessons and makes for a lovely listen.
Review
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them about how to succeed better. The honest conversations coupled with Day's kind, authentic and vulnerable journalist approach makes for some enjoyable and heart felt listening. Highly recommend choosing someone who resonates with you and using that as a jumping off point for listening.
Pg tip: Listening to this has helped me recommit to journalling and reflecting with compassion on past failures and what they have taught me.
Here are other recommendations you might enjoy:
This was a special pandemic episode. Renowned philosopher, and founder of The School of Life (another remarkable resource), Alain talks to Day about embracing vulnerability. The conversation is talking specifically about the challenges faced during the pandemic yet it highlights important and nuanced attributes of vulnerability, values, purpose, empathy and human connection that are universal to us all and it's lessons can be carried over until business and leadership.
"I think empathy is a two-way street. When we're able to connect with other people, to understand where they're coming from, and to feel their pain, it also helps us to feel more connected to the world around us, and to feel a sense of meaning and purpose. It makes us feel like we're part of something larger than ourselves."
- Alain de Botton
Pg tip: Alain has reminded me to dig deeper when people ask how I am and really tune into their responses as well - together, we can form deeper bonds.
As Day describes in the episode synopsis, in their conversation Brown “speaks with such honesty, clarity and humour about what it is to be human and how to make sense of the world.”. There are so many learning moments and thought provoking areas to take away from what Brene has to say. A joy to listen to her talk about some of her own failures with her textbook vulnerability and courage.
Pg tip: Brene reminds us to apply true emotional naming to what we experience and not minimize our feelings.
This live episode with Journalist and Author of multi-award-winning bestseller How To Be A Woman, Caitlin Moran has brevity and depth and everything in between. It’s a witty and intelligent conversation between two women talking about their experiences.
Pg tip: I will be using Caitlin’s perspective to remember I don’t have to please other people to feel whole.
Takeaway:
I listen to stories relating to the human experience, which is why I love This American Life, or something just totally light hearted which is why The Off Menu Podcast is one of my all time favourites. How to Fail brings a blend of the two which makes for light hearted listening that leaves you with some self reflection and humanizes the failures we all inevitably experience in life.
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