Podcasting

My award-winning podcast with Stu Oakley 'Some Families' explored our own and guests' experiences of queer parenting.  This evolved into From Gay to Ze which looked at parenting through the lens of queer pop culture. I also hosted Grazia Life advice, interviewing celebs 

Guest podcast appearances

  • Emma Gannon’s Ctrl Alt Del

    My guest today is Lotte Jeffs – author, journalist and previous acting Editor of ELLE magazine. She writes for a wide variety of publications including The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian covering topics from fashion and style to sexuality and gender to social trends, memoir, and observational humour pieces. As well as writing award-winning columns, she writes colourful and newsworthy celebrity interviews and has in the past two years written cover profiles of Kristen Stewart, Karlie Kloss, Lana Del Rey and Victoria Beckham, to name a few.

    Her new book How To Be A Gentlewoman: The Art of Soft Power in Hard Times is out now and in this episode we discuss book writing, failure and career pivoting. Listen Here

  • Sunday Salon

    I’ve known Lotte for five years – she was once my editor at ES magazine and I’ve watched in awe as she has achieved ever greater things, becoming Deputy Editor and then Acting Editor in Chief of ELLE, winning awards for her writing, moving into advertising, and then publishing her first book, How to be a Gentlewoman: The Art of Soft Power in Hard Times.

    Part memoir, part self-help book, it draws on a host of personal and professional experiences to detail how she found her inner confidence, a sense of balance and, ultimately, happiness. I loved talking to her for this episode – she was incredibly thoughtful and open, and made me think about so many things in a new light.

  • ANTHEMS Pride

    Lotte Jeffs is a freelance writer and creative consultant. Previously, Lotte was the acting editor-in-chief and deputy editor of UK ELLE Magazine. She’s written for the likes of The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian, and is the author of the book How To Be A Gentlewoman.

    Her word of the day is Wild.

  • The Emma Guns Show

    Lotte Jeffs is a writer, creative consultant and author who joins me on the show to talk about her new book How to be a Gentlewoman: The art of soft power in hard times.

  • The Journey

    Everyone has their own unique journey and path to parenthood. There is often a lot to learn from other people’s experiences so we have decided to share the stories of some inspiring people we have met along the way. Today is with Lotte Jeffs. Lotte is an author, award winning journalist and former deputy editor of Elle Magazine. Many people have a complicated road to becoming parents and when you are in a same sex couple it is automatically less straight forward. We talk to Lotte about her experience, what she learnt along the way and being a career woman and a parent. Something many of us struggle with these days.

  • BBC Talent Works

    Lotte Jeffs is a journalist, creative director and author. Her illustrious career includes being published in the Independent, the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard. She won Writer of The Year at the Press and Publishing Association Awards in 2016 and was shortlisted for Columnist of the Year in 2017 for her eponymous column Lotte’s Lexicon in Elle magazine. Lotte has always been on the pulse when it comes to seeking out the most creative talents of our generation and her eye for a story is second to none, it’s no wonder that after 15 years as a deputy editor and then Acting Editor in Chief of ELLE magazine that she was appointed Creative Director at global advertising agency Ogilvy to bring her storytelling expertise to the ad agency world. She has since published her first book ‘How To Be a Gentlewoman’, represented by digital first literary agency Gleam Titles and launched the LGBTQ+ parenting podcast ‘Some Families’. We spoke to Lotte at our Writers Retreat in collaboration with the BBC Writers Room.