Help Existing Podcast
1) Tuesdays With Tashi: Help Confronting Death
This week I'm joined again by Buddhist Monk Tashi Nyima, who you might recognize from past episodes, Help With Despair Over the State of the World and Help With Generosity. Tashi had a near-death ex...Show More
2) What Teachers Today Face & How To Support Them—Author & Teacher Shannon McLeod
This week I'm joined by one of my closest friends in the world, author and teacher Shannon McLeod. Shannon is the author of the wonderful new story collection Nature Trail Stories, as well as the nove...Show More
What Teachers Today Face & How To Support Them—Author & Teacher Shannon McLeod
47:57 | Mar 21st, 2023
3) Help Planning For Aging When You're Unconventional--Author & Counselor Kathy Labriola
Continuing on a similar theme as the baby decision episodes, I wanted to have a conversation about what aging while child-free (and/or unmarried, and/or nonmonogamous, and/or without a high-paying jo...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) The Baby Decision (Part 2): Help From Therapist & Author Merle Bombardieri
In Part 2 of this super-personal series, I'm speaking again with author and therapist Merle Bombardieri about the decision of whether or not to have kids. Merle is the author of THE BABY DECISION, whi...Show More
The Baby Decision (Part 2): Help From Therapist & Author Merle Bombardieri
49:15 | Feb 21st, 2023
5) Tips For Online Dating, No Matter Your Orientation—Coach & Author Myisha Battle
This week I'm talking with sex educator and author of the new and inclusive dating guide This is Supposed to Be Fun, Myisha Battle. We're talking specifically about online dating: ways that both non-...Show More
Tips For Online Dating, No Matter Your Orientation—Coach & Author Myisha Battle
39:44 | Feb 7th, 2023
6) The Baby Decision (Part 1): Help From Therapist & Author Merle Bombardieri
In this super-personal episode, I'm talking with author and therapist Merle Bombardieri about the decision of whether or not to have kids. Merle is the author of THE BABY DECISION, which I found to be...Show More
The Baby Decision (Part 1): Help From Therapist & Author Merle Bombardieri
1:07:49 | Jan 24th, 2023
7) What Speciesism Has To Do With Racism, Sexism & Homophobia—Writer & Academic Christopher Sebastian McJetters
This week I'm joined by writer and academic Christopher Sebastian McJetters. We're talking about what speciesism—the view that certain species should have more rights to freedom and life than others—h...Show More
8) And The Most Popular Episode of the Year Is...
I'll be back in 2023 with all-new episodes of Help Existing, but for our last episode of 2022, I wanted to celebrate the most-listened-to episode of the year: Help Understanding Bisexuality Better, wi...Show More
9) Encore Birthday Episode: Help Viewing Aging As Sexy
It's my 35th birthday today, so I figured it was the perfect time to reissue one of the most popular episodes of Help Existing: my conversation with self-esteem icon Cindy Gallop about viewing aging a...Show More
10) Help Facing Fatphobia, Workaholism & Chronic Illness—Author & Journalist Evette Dionne
This week I'm joined by Evette Dionne, author of the excellent new memoir in essays, Weightless. Her new book is about many things: the prejudiced way fat Black women are treated in our culture, her ...Show More