But during the pandemic, she says, ‘A lot of people opened up about how lonely they felt, and not just if they were living alone. In the past, before launching the podcast, fans asked her exclusively about her writing or books. Her inbox alone can detect a societal shift. She’s well-placed to know if the mood of the country is changing: in recent years she’s become the unofficial agony aunt of our age. ‘I realised assumption and timeline was not something I crafted for myself, it was something that society had bequeathed me… I think that’s changing a lot now.’ Instead, she went through three miscarriages and a messy divorce and now swears by the years of therapy she’s had since she was 29. She thought she’d be married with children by her mid-thirties. ‘There’s way too much cultural emphasis placed on being the next big thing and it’s really unhelpful because actually older voices have so much to say and contribute.’ Back then she believed you had to be young for an achievement to be worth anything. She says she spent the decade ‘lost’ and anxious about turning 30. If you asked her in her twenties, though, she wouldn’t have believed her life would look this way. And the snapshot I can see of their south London home during our Zoom chat only supports my suspicion that every corner of her life is stylish and immaculate. She’s found happiness with new husband, financial tech CEO Justin Basini, 46.
She has a dazzlingly successful career as an award-winning author and chart-topping podcaster. This is the optimal time of my life,’ she says.Įlizabeth is famous for finding the value in failure, but on screen her life looks pretty sorted. I feel like most of my professional successes, and actually my personal life, got so much better in my late thirties and early forties. Vocal about her belief that women have been sold a lie that their power diminishes the older they get, at 42 and having recently married for the second time, she’s found the opposite to be true.
Anyone obsessed with the idea that success means ticking off milestones according to a certain timeline would do well to follow Elizabeth Day.
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