Pandora Sykes is a journalist, speaker and brand consultant from London who wears several professional hats. Pandora has written for titles including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Vogue.co.uk, Red magazine, Net-a-Porter’s The Edit, The Cut, Vogue Australia, The Spectator and The Sunday Times—and has interviewed celebrities like Chloe Sevigny, Jennifer Connelly, Margot Robbie, Alexa Chung and Amber Valletta. In addition, Pandora has personally collaborated with brands including Topshop, Cartier, Farfetch, Net-a-Porter, Estée Lauder, Burberry and Swarovski. Talk about impressive. Currently, Pandora co-hosts an iTunes-topping news and pop-culture podcast, The High Low, and is the Contributing Editor at Man Repeller, as well as at ELLE magazine. You might also spot her on a panel or two. Multi-hyphenate, much? Along with her many coveted roles, Pandora is also a new mother who shares her life on her very popular Instagram. Below, this incredible boss tells us how she wraps up a busy day. 
6:30 P.M. I’ve just finished my bath with the baby, and as my husband gets through the door, I hand him the baby and he gives her her bedtime bottle.
7 P.M. If I’m going out, I’ll be chucking make-up and clothes all over the place, trying to get ready in 2 minutes flat. If I’m at home for the evening (bliss) I’ll be rustling through the freezer for a healthy frozen meal by By Ruby (a total life saver as you can cook them from frozen.)
8 P.M. We’ll eat dinner at the kitchen table or if there’s something we’re really into, on the sofa. We don’t watch TV together much but we both started watching Press on the BBC so we might watch that on iPlayer. It’s about two competing newspapers – a tabloid and a broadsheet, loosely based I believe on The Sun and The Guardian – and I love it as it reminds me (albeit loosely) of my time at The Sunday Times.  
8:30 P.M. I’m often back at my desk at this time, either editing the podcast or trying to make inroads into my ever-bloated inbox. In a dream world I’ve applied an Avene mask and I’m reading magazines (I subscribe to literally everything – my favourites are House & Garden, ELLE, The Week and all the Sunday supplements from the newspapers) on my bed with Jazz FM playing on the Google Home while an Amber scented candle by Laboratory Perfumes burns nearby.
9 P.M. If I’m in the dream world, I’ve moved on to a book. I read a lot, it’s like therapy for me. Last week I read Adèle by Leila Slimani and this week I’m on In Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. A book shop sent me a beautiful copy along with Love In A Cold Climate, after I mentioned on The High Low I had never read any Nancy Mitford. It’s a riot – I’ve been missing out!
9:30 P.M. Dream world: still reading. More likely: at desk, or perhaps tidying up my dressing room. I had it built when we moved into our house in December and it’s the ultimate luxury – it means none of the mess creeps into our bedroom! I’ve just finished decorating it, I co-created a split carpet (half yellow, half red) with the design consultant Campbell Rey, whose work I love and Balineum made me a bespoke yellow wavy mirror that looks like mustard sauce in a hotdog. I love being in there and the baby is quite into the carpet, so it’s a win all round. We put the cat to bed in the kitchen, blow out the candles and give the baby a night feed.
10 P.M. Since we had the baby, we try and go to bed at 10pm – especially because I work a lot in the evenings at the moment – but often I read until 11pm. If we have friends for dinner – my favourite, since we moved we have great entertaining space – it will be well after midnight. But well worth it!