Week six of Stylist’s podcast – Working from Home with Stylist – is here and this week the team are talking about how lockdown has made life (and predicting future plans) so unpredictable, and how we might feel re-entering work. Editor-in-chief Lisa Smosarski and editor-at-large Alix Walker are joined by TV presenter Stacey Dooley and career expert and co-author of Squiggly Careers, Sarah Ellis. 

Stacey Dooley spoke candidly with Alix about her time in lockdown, it was week 8 at the time of the interview. 

“This is the longest I’ve been in the UK for 10 years,” Stacey began. The TV presenter has been making documentaries for many years, and that involves a lot of travelling, often taking her away from home for long periods of time. 

“We always flirt with the idea of taking some time off and not prioritising work, but then something else brilliant comes along and you’d be mad to turn it down. So now we’ve been forced to stop, we can’t physically leave the house… so, yeah. It has been nice to not feel like you’ve got 1000 things to do. And not feel guilty for lying on the sofa and binge-watching Netflix.” 

We couldn’t agree more, Stacey. Scroll down to listen to the podcast and hear Stacey talk about her latest show Lockdown Heroes. 

Also in the podcast this week, Stylist’s Helen Bownass shares her love-themed TV series for anyone with a Normal People shaped whole in their lives and columnist Billie Bhatia shares her post lockdown fears.

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And for those missing the print edition, a digital edition of Stylist magazine has also been made available on the Apple News+ subscription channel, with a stand-alone app launching for this week’s issue.

Episode six: our recommendations

Here you can find the links to all the content we discuss in this week’s podcast. 

Sarah Ellis
Read more about The Squiggly Career book here. And if you enjoyed today, we think you’ll love the Squiggly Careers podcast. 

Love Themed TV Shows
Love - Netflix Official Site
The L Word/The L Word
The End of the F***ing World
Never Have I Ever
Dawson’s Creek

Post Lockdown Anxiety
To read Billie’s column download the new issue of Stylist using the new Stylist app, available in all App stores now: here’s the link for iOS and Android.  

For further reading, please see: 
Anxiety UK 

Mind
No Panic
More content written by Stylist on anxiety can be found here. 

Stacey Dooley
Watch Stacey’s Lockdown Heroes here, and Glow-Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Stars here. 

Stylist Loves recommendations
One-pot tandoori chickpeas
Cross-stitch
Lyons Seafood restaurant (only available in north London)
Fraud Shake
Women for Women Virtual Car Boot Sale