Daisy is Careering

In this episode we speak to international bestselling author of The Push Ashley Audrain. We talk about how our family's attitudes to work and money have a dramatic impact on our own, and how many of us push our dreams aside while we try to build ourselves a safety net. Ashley generously shares information about her own career path. She talks about how writing was and is her ultimate dream job, and how easy it is for us all to make compromises that serve our anxiety – until playing it safe becomes dangerous . . .Read Daisy's novel Careering nowUSA: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/713351/careering-by-daisy-buchanan/9780385684170UK: https://www.waterstones.com/book/careering/daisy-buchanan/9780751580204

This week’s guest is the bestselling author, activist, campaigner and journalist Bryony Gordon. We talk about the connections between work, mental illness and addiction, and how work out who we are, what we love and how we want to work without being overwhelmed and distracted by the noise and chaos of social media. Bryony is running ten 10ks in ten days to raise money for Mental Health Mates, you can sponsor her here. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/10ks-in-10days

This week’s guest is the presenter, campaigner and author Sophie Morgan. We talk about how her career path was forever altered when she was paralysed in a car crash at the age of 18 – and about the emotional and practical realities of navigating the working world from a wheelchair. Sophie talks about the complicated nature of success, and how to find feelings of security, pride and happiness in a competitive and uncertain industry – as well as revealing what it’s like to work with some of the world’s cutest, fluffiest guests as a Crufts presenter. Sophie’s memoir Driving Forwards is out now. 

This week’s guest is the journalist, author and influencer Natalie Lee, AKA Style Me Sunday. We talk about her career path from midwife to writer, how ambition fluctuates and evolves, and the complicated nature of setting boundaries and protecting your mental health when it’s your job to share your life online. Natalie’s first book, Feeling Myself, will be published in June, and is available for preorder now. 

This week’s guest is the journalist, broadcaster and campaigner Kat Brown. We talk about Kat’s new book with Unbound, No-One Talks About This Stuff, the work Kat has done to open up conversations around ADHD, infertility and mental health, and how we make room for our complicated, messy, human selves in the corporate world. If you enjoy this episode, we hope you’ll enjoy Daisy’s new novel Careering, published by Sphere and available from all retailers including Waterstones. https://www.waterstones.com/book/careering/daisy-buchanan/9781408725931 Listeners can pledge to Kat’s Unbound book here https://unbound.com/books/no-one-talks-about-this-stuff/ using the discount code DAISY10 – valid for up to 7 days after the episode is transmitted. 

This week’s guest is the bestselling author and Women Who founder Otegha Uwagba. We talk about how she made a platform for creative women, and how an organic experiment became a career shaping success. We also talk about the experiences she describes in her book, We Need ToTalk About Money, how she left a toxic work environment, how we create our own work and finding the confidence to seek out creative challenges. If you enjoy this episode, we hope you’ll enjoy Daisy’s new novel Careering, published by Sphere and available from all retailers including Waterstones. https://www.waterstones.com/book/careering/daisy-buchanan/9781408725931

This week’s guest is the bestselling author and podcast host Emma Gannon, who explores themes of work, the pressure to perform on and off social media and the possibilities and realities of self-employment and imposter syndrome in her brilliant books – The Multi Hyphen Method, Sabotage, Disconnected and the novel Olive. We speak about the myths and realities of being freelance workers, anxiety, creativity, ambition and more.

In Daisy is Careering, journalist and author Daisy Buchanan will be looking at one of the most complicated relationships of our lives: work. We all want to find jobs that we love, but what happens when we start to realise they are never going to love us back? How much of ourselves should we bring to our careers? What can we do when our ambition makes us feel anxious? Is there such a thing as a 'dream job'? In a series of intimate and revealing conversations, Daisy will ask her guests to explore how they navigate the highs and lows of their working lives, and how we can all survive and thrive, while making sure our professional passion doesn't turn into a bad romance. The podcast accompanies Daisy's latest novel, Careering.