Isolationcast #17: Pandora Sykes on online exposure and building resilience

The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania Jarvis

I am so delighted that my guest this week is Pandora Sykes, whose new book, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life, is a thought-provoking and insightful dissection of contemporary fads and foibles - from wellness and self-optimisation, to our urge to appear "authentic" even when doing so is in itself superficial and so much more. I found her totally fascinating to speak to. As an early adopter of Instagram while working as a fashion journalist - and as the co-host of The High Low podcast - she has had to get used to putting herself out there, being public facing, and being scrutinised - for better and for worse - by the entire internet. We discussed that, as well as her identity struggles when she became a mother, how and when she writes (it's often in the small hours) and what, as someone who is highly sensitive, it is like to be publishing your thoughts and opinions in book form. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Instagram: @aliceazania / @pandorasykes
Twitter: @aliceazania / @PINsykes

Buy the book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-do-we-know-were-doing-it-right/pandora-sykes/9781786332073

Edited by Chelsey Moore