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My guest today is the brilliant Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? In this episode we discuss her latest book Pure Colour, a new novel l about art, love, loss and time. It has been described as a galaxy of a novel: explosive, bright, huge and streaked with beauty. Sheila Heti has also been described as philosopher of modern experience - and I really enjoyed this conversation. Motherhood, her novel which grapples with the question of whether or not to have kids was a huge inspiration on me - and I think Sheila is one of the most talented artists of our time. Enjoy this conversation, I loved it and was on cloud nine after recording! 

• My Substack! https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Sheila Heti's Pure Colour: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781787302808
• Sheila Heti's books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/sheila-heti
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• Books Mentioned On Ctrl Alt Delete Podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcast
• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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Does happiness even exist? Dr Rafa Euba doesn't think so. He is a consultant psychiatrist, based in London, born in the Bask Country, Spain and after qualifying in Medicine, he became a psychiatrist in England. He has worked in many different settings, from exclusive clinics to slums, and his work on depression moved him to write a book on how we are not designed to be happy, called "You are not meant to be happy. So stop trying!" It is such an interesting book, looking at the myths of happiness, how our brains are not designed to keep us happy 24/7, the smoke and mirrors of self-help positive thinking industries, and how mixed and contradictory our emotions can be. I hope you enjoy this conversation and feel intrigued to pick up a copy of his book!

LINKS:

• Join my Substack community and come and say hi! https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Buy DISCONNECTED here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529373127
• Buy Dr Rafa Euba's book HERE: https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-meant-happy-stop-trying/dp/1913613038/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• My favourite 2022 reads: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/best-reads-of-2022

Social media:

• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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My guest today is Delia Ephron: bestselling author, screenwriter and playwright. Her movies include You've Got Mail (starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks) and The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, she has written novels and non-fiction, and her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Oprah magazine and Vogue. She collaborated with her sister, Nora Ephron, on a play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which ran for two years off-Broadway, and today we are chatting about her brilliant new memoir called Left on Tenth, A Second Chance at Life - a beautiful book about many things: Delia's second chance at love, her wonderful friendships and a heartfelt account of life after cancer. It’s a book about hope and I really really recommend a read and curling up with Delias words and shutting the world off for a moment. Hope you enjoy the conversation :)

LINKS:

• Join my Substack community and come and say hi! https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Buy DISCONNECTED here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529373127
• Buy Left On Tenth here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780857528834
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• My favourite 2022 reads: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/best-reads-of-2022

Social media:

• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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My guest today is Josh Roberts, author of Anxious Man and Generation Drift (Why We’re Up Career Creek and How to Paddle Home). He is a mental health writer, speaker and consultant; and cohost of the Voicemale podcast with Jamie Laing. He started his career as a Strategy Consultant at Deloitte, before moving into advertising. Three years ago, he experienced a rather intense mental breakdown which culminated in being diagnosed with a Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Inspired by comments and stories he received, he resolved to quit his job and devote my time to trying to help others through writing, broadcasting and public speaking on the topic of mental health. I really enjoyed this new book on careers, mental health, comparison, success and why so many of us are ‘drifters’. Hope you enjoy this conversation and definitely recommend grabbing a copy of the book!

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LINKS:

• Join my Substack community and come and say hi! https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Buy DISCONNECTED here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529373127
• Buy Anxious Man: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529364927
• Buy Generation Drift: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529377248
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• My favourite 2022 reads: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/best-reads-of-2022

Social media:

• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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Welcome back to Ctrl Alt Delete. My guest today is Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author and consultant devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays, while staying focused and productive. He is the author of four books, including SHORTER, REST and The Distraction Addiction. He speaks so brilliant on the topic of the 4-day week and future of work, and how deliberate rest makes creative careers more productive and sustainable.In this episode we dive into the four day week, will it ever happen? What are the benefits? How the pandemic has changed our working days and how do we be happier and healthier at work? Hope you enjoy.

• My Substack page, come and say hi: https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Check out Alex's books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/alex-soojung-kim-pang
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• Books mentioned on Ctrl Alt Delete podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcast
• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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Clemmie Burton Hill on the podcast today. I became friends with Clemmie years ago now when she interviewed me at Hay festival about my book and ever since then we spoke about books, work, life and everything in between. Clemmie is a broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist, violinist and a lover of arts and music. On the morning of January the 20th 2020, only weeks before the pandemic turned the world upside dow, Clemmie suffered a catastrophic brain injury. One moment she was in a meeting in New York where she lives with her husband and two children. She is one of the most inspirational and magical people I know. Today we're discussing her brilliant book, Another Year of Wonder, a fantastic book making classical music more accessible to everyone with a song for every day. She's given me a song for every mood and every feeling that I can't really conjure up with words. I hope you enjoy this episode.

• My Substack page, come and say hi: https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Clemmie’s book: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781472259370
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• Books mentioned on Ctrl Alt Delete podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcast
• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk
• CHOOSE LOVE: https://chooselove.org/
• Max Richter: https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/

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Trigger warnings for this episode, we discuss Sarah Everard, violence against women, rape and sexual assault in this episode. If you are not in the mood to listen to these topics, please protect yourself and perhaps give this one a miss.

My guest today is Jamie Klingler, writer, activist, keynote speaker and campaigner for women’s safety as co-founder of Reclaim These Streets. This is part two of this full conversation with Jamie (part one available here). In this episode we are discussing her activist work, how Reclaim These Streets started, how to show up and make change and what we can do to help. The group began as a collective of women organising a vigil for Sarah Everard in March 2021, to raise awareness, make change and to stand up for all women who feel unsafe, have been lost to violence, who go missing from our streets and who face violence every day. They campaign, hold vigils, rally together volunteers and speak and act on women’s safety and even recently took on the Met police. They aim to use legislation, education and community action to ensure no woman has to be asked to 'text me when you get home' again. I will leave all the information in the shownotes below, and thanks again to Jamie for coming on the podcast to chat to me about her work.

Jamie Klingler: https://twitter.com/jamieklingler

Reclaim These Streets: https://reclaimthesestreets.com/

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Hello and welcome back to Ctrl Alt Delete! (Just a heads up in this one we talk about weight loss, alcohol dependency, mental health and big life changes.) My guest today is Jamie Klingler, born and raised in Philadelphia and has lived in London for almost twenty years working in publishing and events. She is a writer and speaker/campaigner for women’s safety. In December she was named #9 in the UK Communicators of 2021 by PR Week for her work with Reclaim These Streets. In this part one of the episode we discuss Jamie’s life transformation over the lockdown period where she gave up drinking and overhauled her life. In her words in the Guardian, she "gave up booze, took up running and found the strength and stamina to fight for a better future”. In part two of this episode we discuss her brilliant work as co-founder of Reclaim These Streets, a group formed to remember Sarah Everard and campaigns for women’s safety. I am fascinated by Jamie’s story and how she speaks so openly about how a big lifestyle change enabled her to do more work in a space she is passionate about. Hope you enjoy listening.

• Reclaim These Streets: https://reclaimthesestreets.com
• Jamie's YOU magazine article: https://www.you.co.uk/jamie-klingler-i-was-always-the-drunk-party-girl/
• My Substack page, come and say hi: https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Jamie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamieklingler
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• Books mentioned on Ctrl Alt Delete podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcast
• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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Come and have a look here >>> https://thehyphen.substack.com

Introduce yourself here >>> https://thehyphen.substack.com/p/shall-we-introduce-ourselves/comments

Hello, listeners of Ctrl Alt Delete! 

First of all, thanks so much for being a regular listener of this podcast, I really enjoy making it for you! This podcast gets hundreds of thousands of downloads every month and I always wonder who you are, where you are listening from? What the episodes resonate the most with you? I know that this is a really warm and welcoming bunch of people who tune in every week and basically I’d love to hear from you and say hello! :)

I now have the perfect place for us to chat in a two-way dialogue. Recently I have launched a community based newsletter on Substack called The Hyphen and it’s my place to write, share links, books, podcasts, all sorts of recommendations, and it’s already a wonderful community of like-minded people. It is a paying advertising-free community of $7 a month, the price of a couple of coffees, to access the community threads (every Tuesday we discuss a new topic which each other), Q&A columns from me where I write an answer on a specific reader question and tons more. There is a thread called ‘introduce yourself’ (see link above) where you can tell us a bit about you and what you do and what you like to do! I will also donate a portion of each month’s revenue to Choose Love, in particular at the moment I’ll be donating to the Ukraine Crisis Fundraiser.

So come and say hi! I'd love to hear from you!

E xo

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Fearne Cotton is one of the best-known and most popular broadcasters in the UK and is most recently known as the founder of the wellbeing brand and podcast, Happy Place. This came off the back of her first book Happy in 2017 which was a Sunday Times Bestseller. This was the first in a series of books talking about her own positive, and some of the not so positive, experiences with happiness. Happy Place Podcast now has over 40 million downloads and had over 10,000 people attending two Happy Place Festivals in the UK. I really enjoy Fearne's laid back, warm and approachable vibe and I love her curiosity. In this episode, we discuss her new book Bigger Than Us, which brings insight and wisdom from lots of different teachers, ​​from intuition and energy to manifesting, ritual, prayer and star signs. It covers so much and it is really intriguing, bringing some of the magical bits to us in a more accessible way. I went to Fearne's home studio to record this one and it was really fun, I hope you enjoy our conversation!

• My Substack! https://thehyphen.substack.com/
• Fearne's book 'Bigger Than Us': https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780349415376
• My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
• Books Mentioned On Ctrl Alt Delete Podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcast
• Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon
• Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk

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