Lorraine Candy: The Joys Of Cold Water Swimming

08/26/21 • 50 min

On the show this week I have Lorraine Candy, one of the most influential people on the UK’s magazine industry and formerly editor-in-chief at Cosmopolitan, ELLE & latterly Sunday Times Style. Lorraine is also the host of the Postcards from Midlife podcast, and author of new book, Mum, What’s Wrong With You – a funny, practical manual for anyone raising teenage girls. I found this conversation so refreshing – Lorraine is full of helpful advice about looking after yourself and living your most grounded, authentic life. We discuss:

The joys of cold water swimming
How alone time underpins self-awareness
The ‘distraction’ problem inherent in the wellness industry
How tuning in with your individual energy levels can have a game-changing effect on your work output
The relationship between hormonal changes and mental health
& much more

Lorraine Candy's book, 'Mum, What's Wrong With You?': 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know, is available to buy now.

My book, Alonement: How To Be Alone and Absolutely Own It, is also out now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops.

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The joys of cold water swimming
How alone time underpins self-awareness
The ‘distraction’ problem inherent in the wellness industry
How tuning in with your individual energy levels can have a game-changing effect on your work output
The relationship between hormonal changes and mental health
& much more

Lorraine Candy's book, 'Mum, What's Wrong With You?': 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know, is available to buy now.

My book, Alonement: How To Be Alone and Absolutely Own It, is also out now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops.

Social links:

Twitter:

Instagram:

Contact: [email protected]

With a one-off payment of £5, you can listen to the Alonement podcast ad-free. https://plus.acast.com/s/alonement.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: Finding Purpose & Focus At Work

Hello, my worker bees! So let's face it, the perfect office probably doesn't exist – but if it did, it would be the brainchild of Alex Soojung Kim Pang, PHD, a Silicon Valley consultant and a futurist who has spent the last two decades researching the nature of people, work and technology. Alex totally transformed how I think about the 'work-life balance' – we spoke about the need to instead create a sense of 'harmony' in your working day, instead (which also takes into account how much solo/social time you need as an individual). He proved a fascinating guest – we chatted about:

Getting the right balance of social interaction and focussed solitude at work
The relationship between 'rest' and being alone
How to find a greater degree of purpose and 'flow' in our working days
The need to create a distraction-free office environment post-pandemic
Whether the terms ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ are useful – or not
Why we need to bring back the communal office lunchtime

& more!

Happy listening.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang’s book, Rest, is available to buy now.

My book, Alonement: How To Be Alone and Absolutely Own It, is also out now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops.

Social links:

Twitter:

Instagram:

Contact: [email protected]

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Next Episode

Emma John: Being Single In Your Forties

Emma John is an award winning journalist and author. Her most recent book, Self-Contained, is a memoir which chronicles what it’s like to enter your 40s without having been in a serious long-term relationship. It’s a book that celebrates the fullness of single life – the highs and lows.

Our conversation is an unapologetic, unflinching look at the single experience, with a particular emphasis on how hobbies, interests and platonic relationships, as long as shorter-term romantic ones, can become centre stage – filling the space a relationship might otherwise.

We also discuss:

What it means to be ‘self-contained’
The difficulty of trying to write a narrative as a single woman (Who hasn’t met someone at the end/without a happy ending) - What is my narrative arc- without the happy ending?
The one constant in your life is you
The myth that it’s only OK to be single if you’re living a hedonistic, free lifestyle
Why solo travel isn’t really solitary – especially if you’re in South Carolina
Why following your passion can be a brilliant reason for doing things alone
Why your life starts right now – not when you meet your ‘Other Half’

Emma John’s book, Self Contained, is available to buy now.

My book, Alonement: How To Be Alone and Absolutely Own It, is also out now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops.

Social links:

Twitter:

Instagram:

Contact: [email protected]

With a one-off payment of £5, you can listen to the Alonement podcast ad-free. https://plus.acast.com/s/alonement.