Podcast: Calling All Goddesses with Holly Wainwright

Podcast: Calling All Goddesses with Holly Wainwright

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This week Cheryl is joined by bestselling author, journalist and editor Holly Wainwright to discuss her latest release How To Be Perfect – a page-turning, rip-roaring story about mums, phones and the cult of self-improvement. Together they discuss the pressures that modern women are faced with, and the way in which ‘wellness’ culture has taken over our lives (and our Instagram feeds).

Podcast guest: Holly Wainwright

Holly Wainwright is a former-Mancunian Sydneysider who came to Australia as a footloose traveller more than 20 years ago. Since then, Holly has had a long career as a journalist and editor, originally in travel and celebrity magazines and now online. She’s been working in digital media for three years, most recently as Head of Content at Mamamia. She hosts two podcasts: This Glorious Mess and Mamamia Out Loud, has two small children, lives by the ocean and wishes there were four more hours in every day.

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                      Publisher details

                      How To Be Perfect
                      Author
                      Holly Wainwright
                      Publisher
                      Allen & Unwin
                      Genre
                      Fiction
                      Released
                      29 August, 2018
                      ISBN
                      9781760633486

                      Synopsis

                      In the rolling green hills of Australia's hippest hinterland, a new guru is blogging about her breakfast.ELLE CAMPBELL is back, holed up in an exclusive retreat where women pay thousands to mimic her extreme lifestyle, or die trying. But who's bankrolling Elle's new empire? And why are her two tiny sons suddenly absent from her glossy public image?All ABI BLACK wants is to marry her true love under a tree in the garden on New Year's Eve. But her ex-husband is building a financial cult in the shed, Elle is looming and her teenage daughter's YouTube channel is gaining followers for all the wrong reasons. The wedding might have to wait.FRANCES GRAHAM has a colicky newborn, an absent husband and a WhatsApp Mothers' Group that's giving her anxiety. But she's certain that if she can just be more like those fitmums on Instagram, things can only get better. And surely, if she can scrape enough money together to make it to Elle's retreat, everything in her life will be just . . . perfect.Through a world of fake gurus, green smoothies and bad influencers, How to Be Perfect follows Elle, Abi and Frankie into the cult of self-improvement that's taking over your phone . . . and your breakfast.
                      Holly Wainwright
                      About the author

                      Holly Wainwright

                      Holly Wainwright is a former-Mancunian Sydneysider who came to Australia as a footloose traveller more than 20 years ago. Since then, Holly has had a long career as a journalist and editor, originally in travel and celebrity magazines and now online. She's been working in digital media for three years, most recently as Head of Entertainment at Mamamia. She also hosts a parenting podcast, has two small children, lives by the ocean and wishes there were four more hours in every day.

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                      1. JPOD says:

                        Hi
                        I wanted to hear what Holly Wainwright had to say but the interviewer continually inserted her views and spoke over her. This podcast could have been interesting if it had been about Holly’s book and ideas, but Cheryl’s interview style didn’t let her guest shine.

                      2. Janette Daniel says:

                        I enjoyed the podcast – the two options from slightly different perspectives. I haven’t read any of Holly’s books. But I have a daughter (also Holly) and daughter-in-law that I think will benefit from these books. I shall be looking out for them on my next trip to the bookshop. Cheers Jan