Season 9, Episode 6: Clothes, Confidence and a conversation with Jo Elvin

Dahlia is joined by Jo Elvin, journalist, broadcast and multi award winning editor to get her view on the link between clothes and confidence. Jo reflects on the moments where she has used clothes for confidence across her career as a magazine editor. She talks about the moments she has explored body confidence, moving into new parts of the media industry and found confidence in her current role (now also in front of the camera).

Dahlia and Jo talk about the role of an editor and how the changing media landscape has changed the way we consume information - and whether or not that is a good thing.

The conversation also includes a look in to Palace Confidential, discussing 'Royal' fashion and a nomination for the best dressed Royal!

Jo Elvin is a multi-award winning editor and broadcaster who has launched and helmed some of Britain’s most successful women’s magazines. She is most well known as the editor in chief of Glamour, a title she launched in 2001 that rapidly became the biggest-selling women’s magazine in the UK and Europe. Under her direction, Glamour quickly became the biggest selling magazine in Europe. During her time there, she also launched the internationally renowned Glamour Women of the Year Awards.

She was the editor of the Mail on Sunday’s YOU magazine from 2018-2022, the most widely-read women’s magazine in Britain with close to 2 million readers every week.

In 2022, Jo was appointed CEO of Children With Cancer UK, one of the biggest funders of research into childhood cancers in this country. She dedicated two years to increasing the charity’s profile, including helping to produce the acclaimed documentary , Kids Like Us, available on Sky.

She is a five-time winner of an Editor of the Year award from the British Society of Magazine Editors.

Born in Sydney, Australia, Jo even worked as a publicist in her early career for the iconic Aussie soap, Neighbours. She is a well-known broadcaster and podcaster, presenting on Lorraine and hosting the popular royal talk show, Palace Confidential. She has written extensively for most national newspapers including The Telegraph, The Times and The Daily Mail.