How to fail podcast

How to Fail!

Kristin Vermilya

How to Fail is a podcast about struggling, making mistakes, doubting yourself, feeling like you’re faking it, and wishing more people opened up about this too. Tina & Kristin host a light-hearted talk about failure with creative women so we can all fail forward together.

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Read the show notes and learn more about Christina by heading to howtofailpodcast.co/episode39!

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THROWBACK: How to Fail! x Misses Ambitious

In honor of our friends over at the Misses Ambitious podcast coming back from a break with their new branding and new episode, we wanted to revisit our interview on their show!

About Misses Ambitious

Kiley and Blaine are best friends and small business owners! Every Tuesday they chat with a #magicalunicornladyboss guest and ask questions that are meant to inspire, motivate, and pump up their community! Listen to this podcast if you want inspiration, real talk, and honest opinions and experience!

Whether talking about failure, the internet, or hard work, Danielle makes it clear in this episode that you can’t edit out the humanity from what you do. Our humanity is what connects us and our humanity is what fails us. Danielle gives us a bit of tough love during our conversation and reminds us that starting where we are with whatever we have is the best course of action. Oh, and she to this day takes very good care of her American Girl Dolls.

To read more about Danielle and check out the show notes, head to howtofailpodcast.co/episode37!

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Launch Your Daydream founders Britt & Kelsey join us on the podcast today to bring the kind of content our listeners want to hear: what it was like to meet and hug all five of the Backstreet Boys. We also talk to them about what it’s like to work with a partner (we can relate) and how to let your failures show you that you don’t have to force yourself to do what your heart doesn’t want. To read the show notes and check out more about Britt & Kelsey, head to howtofailpodcast.co/episode36!

About Britt & Kelsey:

Britt and Kelsey are Biz BFFs who launched a business together while living states apart. They can’t live without the Backstreet Boys, pizza, and reruns of The Office. Launch Your Daydream provides photographers and wedding professionals with a comprehensive one-on-one branding + website design experience, targeted educational tools + a supportive and engaging creative community.

LYDD Website | Instagram (@launchyourdaydream) | Facebook | Spotify playlist

In our second installment of Pillow Talk with Tina & Kristin, we get our pillows out and chat about Kristin’s wedding stress (she has a lot of complaints) and, relatedly, the Netflix true crime docu-drama The Staircase. A few things Kristin complains about include: gift registries, bridesmaid dresses, feeling like no one cares, the dowry issue, and how expensive weddings are. Tina indulges and talks about how much she loves showering.

If you want to give advice on the wedding side or conspire about The Staircase, message us on Instagram! We’re @howtofailpodcast. If you want to check this episode out on our website and read the show notes, head to howtofailpodcast.co/episode35!

Jen Hatzung joined us on the podcast to talk something woo: affirmations! We chat with Jen about the power of words, how something failing doesn’t make you a failure as a person, and noticing if your feelings about something match up with the facts. By the end of the episode, Jen may have even turned Kristin into an affirmations believer. Read the show notes at howtofailpodcast.co/episode34!

Cher Hale is a publicist who helps authors, activists, and artists tug at more heartstrings + get more eyeballs on their work. She specializes in writing cold (but heartfelt!) pitches and has landed interviews on outlets like The Unmistakable Creative, goop, and NBC. When she’s not writing emails, you can find her re-watching Remember the Titans, playing with her cat Totoro, or hiking somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.

In this episode, we chat with negotiation consultant Devon Smiley about some hefty topics: value and worth, gender stereotypes around negotiating, and pre-Drake Degrassi. Devon talks to us about asking for what we need and going after the ‘no,’ because it means you’re pushing far enough. You can find Devon on Instagram @devonmsmiley or at devonsmiley.com. For show notes and more about Devon, head to howtofailpodcast.co/episode30!

Our 25th Episode! (Part Two // Guest Host Alyssa Nutile)

Our 25th Episode! (Part One // Kristin + Tina)

On today’s episode (the first of a two-parter!) Kristin + Tina chat solo about how their ideas of failure have changed since starting the podcast. They talk personal failures, what they’d like to see happen with the podcast, and Kristin tells Tina how to correctly pronounce Ben Affleck’s name. Stay tuned next week for part 2!

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day Elizabeth Day

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.

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall’s latest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, is out next week in paperback and is available to pre-order here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320237/the-book-of-hope-by-goodall-jane/9780241479469

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Jane Goodall @janegoodalluk

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Kit de Waal

Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal is available for pre-order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/without-warning-and-only-sometimes/kit-de-waal/9781472284839

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Kit de Waal @KitdeWaal

S14, Ep9 How To Fail: Russell Kane

TW // descriptions of self-harm

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Russell Kane @russell_kane

S14, Ep8 How To Fail: Asim Chaudhry

As well as being a stone-cold legend, Asim Chaudhry is probably best known for co-creating the BAFTA-award-winning mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing and if you’ve ever been on a British Airways flight and paid attention to the safety video, you’ll recognised him instantly as the inept director of a sketch involving national treasures Sir Michael Caine and Olivia Colman. He’s an actor, writer, director and musician. And he’s also hilarious.
He joins me to chat about failing drama class and being kicked out of school with two GCSEs, the time he got deported from America (no, really) and a vicious mugging that left him questioning what life was all about. Along the way we discuss comedy as a defence mechanism, using his dad as creative inspiration and why he wasn’t sure about the jeans he was wearing on the day he came to my house.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Asim Chaudhry @asimc

S14, Ep7 How To Fail: Benjamin Zephaniah

This episode is airing on Windrush Day in the UK, 22nd June, a legacy Zephaniah explores in his latest book for children, We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me, available to order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/we-sang-across-the-sea-the-empire-windrush-and-me/benjamin-zephaniah/onyinye-iwu/9780702311161

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Benjamin Zephaniah @BZephaniah

S14, Ep6 How To Fail: Warsan Shire

TW // eating disorders

Warsan joins me to talk about her failures in everything from breastfeeding to maths. We also talk about her eating disorder and her ‘failure to control it’. We discuss what ‘home’ really means and what it is to be a refugee. And yes, we OBVIOUSLY talk about Beyonce.

Warsan is a beautiful, powerful communicator and this interview made me think and understand better. I hope you like it as much as I do.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day Elizabeth Day

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.

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall’s latest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, is out next week in paperback and is available to pre-order here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320237/the-book-of-hope-by-goodall-jane/9780241479469

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Jane Goodall @janegoodalluk

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Kit de Waal

Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal is available for pre-order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/without-warning-and-only-sometimes/kit-de-waal/9781472284839

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Kit de Waal @KitdeWaal

S14, Ep9 How To Fail: Russell Kane

TW // descriptions of self-harm

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Russell Kane @russell_kane

S14, Ep8 How To Fail: Asim Chaudhry

As well as being a stone-cold legend, Asim Chaudhry is probably best known for co-creating the BAFTA-award-winning mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing and if you’ve ever been on a British Airways flight and paid attention to the safety video, you’ll recognised him instantly as the inept director of a sketch involving national treasures Sir Michael Caine and Olivia Colman. He’s an actor, writer, director and musician. And he’s also hilarious.
He joins me to chat about failing drama class and being kicked out of school with two GCSEs, the time he got deported from America (no, really) and a vicious mugging that left him questioning what life was all about. Along the way we discuss comedy as a defence mechanism, using his dad as creative inspiration and why he wasn’t sure about the jeans he was wearing on the day he came to my house.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Asim Chaudhry @asimc

S14, Ep7 How To Fail: Benjamin Zephaniah

This episode is airing on Windrush Day in the UK, 22nd June, a legacy Zephaniah explores in his latest book for children, We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me, available to order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/we-sang-across-the-sea-the-empire-windrush-and-me/benjamin-zephaniah/onyinye-iwu/9780702311161

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Benjamin Zephaniah @BZephaniah

S14, Ep6 How To Fail: Warsan Shire

TW // eating disorders

Warsan joins me to talk about her failures in everything from breastfeeding to maths. We also talk about her eating disorder and her ‘failure to control it’. We discuss what ‘home’ really means and what it is to be a refugee. And yes, we OBVIOUSLY talk about Beyonce.

Warsan is a beautiful, powerful communicator and this interview made me think and understand better. I hope you like it as much as I do.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day Elizabeth Day

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.

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall’s latest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, is out next week in paperback and is available to pre-order here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320237/the-book-of-hope-by-goodall-jane/9780241479469

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Jane Goodall @janegoodalluk

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Kit de Waal

Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal is available for pre-order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/without-warning-and-only-sometimes/kit-de-waal/9781472284839

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Kit de Waal @KitdeWaal

S14, Ep9 How To Fail: Russell Kane

TW // descriptions of self-harm

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Russell Kane @russell_kane

S14, Ep8 How To Fail: Asim Chaudhry

As well as being a stone-cold legend, Asim Chaudhry is probably best known for co-creating the BAFTA-award-winning mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing and if you’ve ever been on a British Airways flight and paid attention to the safety video, you’ll recognised him instantly as the inept director of a sketch involving national treasures Sir Michael Caine and Olivia Colman. He’s an actor, writer, director and musician. And he’s also hilarious.
He joins me to chat about failing drama class and being kicked out of school with two GCSEs, the time he got deported from America (no, really) and a vicious mugging that left him questioning what life was all about. Along the way we discuss comedy as a defence mechanism, using his dad as creative inspiration and why he wasn’t sure about the jeans he was wearing on the day he came to my house.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Asim Chaudhry @asimc

S14, Ep7 How To Fail: Benjamin Zephaniah

This episode is airing on Windrush Day in the UK, 22nd June, a legacy Zephaniah explores in his latest book for children, We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me, available to order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/we-sang-across-the-sea-the-empire-windrush-and-me/benjamin-zephaniah/onyinye-iwu/9780702311161

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Benjamin Zephaniah @BZephaniah

S14, Ep6 How To Fail: Warsan Shire

TW // eating disorders

Warsan joins me to talk about her failures in everything from breastfeeding to maths. We also talk about her eating disorder and her ‘failure to control it’. We discuss what ‘home’ really means and what it is to be a refugee. And yes, we OBVIOUSLY talk about Beyonce.

Warsan is a beautiful, powerful communicator and this interview made me think and understand better. I hope you like it as much as I do.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day Elizabeth Day

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.

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall’s latest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, is out next week in paperback and is available to pre-order here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320237/the-book-of-hope-by-goodall-jane/9780241479469

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Jane Goodall @janegoodalluk

S14, BONUS EPISODE! How To Fail: Kit de Waal

Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal is available for pre-order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/without-warning-and-only-sometimes/kit-de-waal/9781472284839

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Kit de Waal @KitdeWaal

S14, Ep9 How To Fail: Russell Kane

TW // descriptions of self-harm

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Russell Kane @russell_kane

S14, Ep8 How To Fail: Asim Chaudhry

As well as being a stone-cold legend, Asim Chaudhry is probably best known for co-creating the BAFTA-award-winning mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing and if you’ve ever been on a British Airways flight and paid attention to the safety video, you’ll recognised him instantly as the inept director of a sketch involving national treasures Sir Michael Caine and Olivia Colman. He’s an actor, writer, director and musician. And he’s also hilarious.
He joins me to chat about failing drama class and being kicked out of school with two GCSEs, the time he got deported from America (no, really) and a vicious mugging that left him questioning what life was all about. Along the way we discuss comedy as a defence mechanism, using his dad as creative inspiration and why he wasn’t sure about the jeans he was wearing on the day he came to my house.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Asim Chaudhry @asimc

S14, Ep7 How To Fail: Benjamin Zephaniah

This episode is airing on Windrush Day in the UK, 22nd June, a legacy Zephaniah explores in his latest book for children, We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me, available to order here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/we-sang-across-the-sea-the-empire-windrush-and-me/benjamin-zephaniah/onyinye-iwu/9780702311161

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Benjamin Zephaniah @BZephaniah

S14, Ep6 How To Fail: Warsan Shire

TW // eating disorders

Warsan joins me to talk about her failures in everything from breastfeeding to maths. We also talk about her eating disorder and her ‘failure to control it’. We discuss what ‘home’ really means and what it is to be a refugee. And yes, we OBVIOUSLY talk about Beyonce.

Warsan is a beautiful, powerful communicator and this interview made me think and understand better. I hope you like it as much as I do.