Fearne Cotton: “I’m completely out of my depth!” Happy Place turns seven
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It’s Happy Place’s 7th birthday! To celebrate, Fearne’s put down her own trusty notebook and let her presenter mate Alex Jones turn the interview tables!
In this chat, Alex asks Fearne about Happy Place’s evolution from a podcast, to a book publisher, to a festival, and now a marketplace too.
Fearne opens up about feeling bleak and being on anti-depressants before she created Happy Place, as well as all the moments she’s cocked up personally and professionally over the last seven years. Do you have imposter syndrome and a deep desire to be liked? Fearne chats about how to cope with those feelings.
Fearne’s also got better at admitting she’s ambitious and proud of her work, and wants you to be allowed to feel good when you’re good at something too!
You’ll hear some exclusive BTS stuff: how does Fearne pick guests for the show? What does she look club in Book Club author? And how the bloody hell does she manage her time as a brand founder, presenter, mum, and mate?? (Spoiler: she tells Alex about the reality of bringing her kids to work!)
Plus, Fearne answers the questions you’ve voicenoted her on Instagram! One of you has sparked an important conversation about fertility, and Fearne and Alex cover other big topics like taking more time to consider death and grief.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. Today I hope that you've got your |
| 0:06.8 | snazziest party outfit on Gang because we are celebrating seven years of Happy Place. |
| 0:13.9 | And it started with you and a microphone. |
| 0:17.9 | What are the things that go wrong? |
| 0:20.6 | Oh my God. |
| 0:21.9 | Where do I start? |
| 0:23.5 | It seemed like every duck and goose in South West London had shit on our site. |
| 0:29.1 | And I went, I'm too overwhelmed and I don't feel like I should be here. |
| 0:32.7 | That was a lovely room of like-minded people that want to learn and they're really up for this. |
| 0:37.3 | So I just literally text her and went, do you want to write book? |
| 0:39.8 | She was like, no, maybe. |
| 0:42.3 | This was a day where I had no childcare, so I had to bring my kids to work. |
| 0:46.2 | And my manager at the time went, you're not here, are you? |
| 0:49.9 | And I went, no. |
| 0:52.5 | So you ask about your guest's happy place, but obviously we have to know what's your happy place. |
| 1:00.1 | Where is your happy place? |
| 1:01.6 | Where is my happy place? |
| 1:03.6 | It's my bedroom. |
| 1:04.8 | My happy place is in my mum and dad's kitchen. |
| 1:06.7 | My happy place is people, actually. |
| 1:08.7 | It's got to be performing magic. |
| 1:09.9 | So there's an hour before the sun rises. |
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