Fearne Cotton

Hello everyone, I'm Fearne Cotton and welcome to Happy Place.

It's time again to open The Happy Place Hotline.

This is a chance for you to get in touch with your dilemmas, if you so choose, and your voice notes and little life updates.

I was so fuming because how could you set us up like that? Do you know what I mean? You get us there in our fucking satin dresses.

and our heels I was like we'll go at the interval and I was like no no no and I was ready to go and like Fern Cotton was like sat in front of us as

well

and yeah we were just being very ungracious losers basically and I just really wasn't interested in the awards after that like I was I was yeah I was just about interested I was just about interested before and they said our names early and so I remember that day I had a wedding to go to as well so I was just like fuck this I can go to the wedding we went to the wedding yeah and so I was just like Yeah, I was like, let's just cut.

And I've got to tell you what happened while we were recording because the timing just couldn't have been more perfect.

So literally, as we were having this conversation and we were chatting about Jo becoming braver, about sharing her wisdom and her creativity and her poems, an email landed in her inbox from Fern Cotton's team, inviting her to read her poetry at the upcoming Happy Place Festival.

I mean, how amazing is that? And in this conversation, Jo shares really openly about why she spent years questioning whether she was qualified enough to teach what she knew, where some of those beliefs came from, and how she's learned to stop letting an old version of herself dictate who she gets to be now.

We also talk about why networking can be such an important part of visibility, the way that we can hide behind humility because it feels safer than owning our own expertise, and and why sometimes the best reason to share what you know is simply because there might be one person who really needs to hear it.

yeah because that was you know huge in the sort of early 2010s all the way up until probably around the end of that decade yeah still on And he would comment on, you know, like Holly Willoughby's breasts and stuff like that.

And the fact that he thought Fern Cotton didn't have any breasts.

And it's just like, it wouldn't happen now.

It was only like 10 years ago with that.

How I'm doing it, I don't really know.

I heard you, you told Fern Cotton when you spoke to her that, acting is like you never really enjoyed it but everyone watching out whether it is Sugar House whatever they're like this guy is amazing like you are so gifted and blessed right but you just see it as just anything

no it's not anything it is it's too much okay that's that's the issue is I'm I've I have a problem with accepting compliments

okay

Now I don't know what she does.

Fern Cotton.

You've got Louis Faroo as well.

Sean Walsh.