Elizabeth Day
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5,372 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 4d ago
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you were paying for them.
Will you describe one of those courses?
Looking back on it now, and we're going to come on to what happened and how harmful it was for you.
Looking back on it now, do you think it was cult-like?
I can totally understand, by the way.
And that's a testament to the quality of your writing and your explanation of it.
There were some great things that came out of it.
Meditating for 45 minutes is probably a great thing.
Not that I've ever done it, but it's a great thing to do right here.
And then I can understand how the allure of that and that feeling and the connections you're making and the community you're forming with other people leads you somewhere where suddenly you've got a wand and you're chanting and you're believing in dragons and unicorns.
There is a character in the book called Steve who is the most senior person in this organization.
And you develop a fixation on him.
Would that be fair to say?
Before we get on to your second quote-unquote failure, I wonder if you could talk to me a bit about your 20s more broadly.
Because I wonder if part of you...
was also looking for a community of like-minded people because you were already separate from your peers because of the life that you were living and the acting jobs that you got since you were a teenager.
Was it difficult sometimes to connect with your contemporaries?
fascinating this sense of specialness being attractive but also crushing that you had the specialness of being the child that your mother so desperately wanted the specialness of getting that part and skins the specialness of a Cambridge interview allotting you the position of chosen one to study that degree yeah and and now in this wellness organization the specialness you hope of being chosen by Steve yes
So can I just ask you a final question on this?
Yeah.
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