Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-Help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less

This week, Lisa talks with Rebecca Scritchfield, author of Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--And Never Say Diet Again.  Rebecca  is a well-being coach, registered dietitian nutritionist, ACSM certified exercise physiologist, and author. Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, podcast, workshops, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the TODAY show, O Magazine, Real Simple, Time, and many others. Rebecca is a freelance writer for The Washington Post and Self magazine, an advisor to Health Magazine (2019) and Diversify Dietetics, and a mom of two young girls.  In this Body Kindness book review podcast and discussion with the author, we discuss the three pillars of Body Kindness: Love, Connect and Care, and touch on the four parts of the book: Part one: What You Do Part two: How You Feel Part three: Who You Are Part four: Where You Belong In this episode, we mention that Lisa was a guest on Rebecca’s podcast, Body Kindness. If you would like to listen to their great conversation, you can do so here. If you like what you're hearing, and want to know more, head to the author's website here. If you want to buy the book and learn more about Body Kindness, you can do so here. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and recommend Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty checks in on her homework from How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Then, she shares an article called Kintsugi and the Art of Repair: Life Is What Makes Us.  If you'd like to listen to the other GHY episodes and links we mention, you can check them out here: Ibram X. Kendi's Ted Talk Misty's experience doing a virtual meditation retreat GHY's review of Know My Name: A Memor by Chanel Miller Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty review the #1 New York Times bestseller How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi is a multiple #1 NYT bestselling author, a National Book Award recipient, and one of America's foremost historians and antiracist voices. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research as well as a contributor writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In this How To Be An Antiracist book review podcast, we talk about a few concepts from various chapters, including: 1. Definitions 3. Power 4. Biology 14. Gender 15. Sexuality and a few more in passing.  We also mention Ibram X. Kendi's Ted Talk, if you'd like to watch it. If you'd like to learn more about the author, you can do so here. If you'd like to buy the book, you can do so here. And please rate, review, subscribe and recommend Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, we are joined again by special guest Ben Sheehan for election-themed trivia! IF YOU ARE HAVING ANY TROUBLE VOTING OR ARE EXPERIENCING INTIMIDATION AT THE POLLS, you can report it to the ACLU's Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Ben Sheehan is the author of OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work. He is also a former award-winning executive producer at Funny Or Die. He founded OMG WTF (Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida) to teach voters about state executive races during the 2018 midterms. The Hollywood Reporter listed him as one of entertainment’s 35 Rising Executives Under 35 and OMG WTF’s Gerrymander Jewelry was a finalist for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2019. In 2016, he helped register 50,000 voters through digital videos as the executive director of Save the Day. The projects he’s been involved with have received over a billion views. If you'd like to learn more about Ben, you can follow him on Instagram and Twitter. Make sure to check out his other account @omgwtfvote and his website, OMGWTF.VOTE, too! BUY BEN'S BOOK and help raise money for local book stores at the same time!  You can also buy his stunning and hilarious gerrymander jewelry right here.  If you'd like to listen to our episode covering Ben's book, check out our OMG WTF book review here.  And check out last week's episode where he talks with us about his book, self-help, and what it was like becoming a first-time author during a pandemic.  You can also follow Lisa, Misty, and Go Help Yourself on Instagram. As always, please subscribe, rate, and review GHY!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty are joined by special guest Ben Sheehan, author of OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work. Ben Sheehan is a former award-winning executive producer at Funny Or Die. He founded OMG WTF (Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida) to teach voters about state executive races during the 2018 midterms. The Hollywood Reporter listed him as one of entertainment’s 35 Rising Executives Under 35 and OMG WTF’s Gerrymander Jewelry was a finalist for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2019. In 2016, he helped register 50,000 voters through digital videos as the executive director of Save the Day. The projects he’s been involved with have received over a billion views. If you'd like to learn more about Ben, you can follow him on Instagram and Twitter. Make sure to check out his other account @omgwtfvote and his website, OMGWTF.VOTE, too! BUY BEN'S BOOK and help raise money for local book stores at the same time!  You can also buy the stunning and hilarious gerrymander jewelry right here.  If you'd like to listen to our episode covering Ben's book, check out our OMG WTF book review here.  If you'd like to listen to our review of Liz Plank's For the Love of Men that we mention during this episode, here is Part 1 and Part 2.  You can also follow Lisa, Misty, and Go Help Yourself on Instagram. As always, please subscribe, rate, and review GHY!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty shares an article from the New York Times about how to help someone who has lost a job.  Make sure to listen to last week's episode for an amazing conversation with special guest Caroline Giuliani.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty are joined by special guest Caroline Giuliani, who offers advice about how to navigate difficult conversations around politics. Her father, Rudy Giuliani, is President Trump's Lawyer -- and she is an open supporter of the Democrats. After this episode was recorded, Caroline published an article in Vanity Fair called "Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris." Read it here.  Caroline is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker originally from New York City. After working in a wide range of entertainment industry positions from representation to studio development and production, she now focuses on directing full time. With a passion for creating bold content, her work is aimed primarily at reducing the shame and stigma associated with mental health and sexuality. Her latest film, Or (Someone) Else, is a psychological thriller about a woman struggling to break free from an abusive relationship and the powerful mental health ramifications of her repressed anger. It stars Emily Althaus (Orange is the New Black, The Handmaid's Tale) & Peter Vack (Love Life, Someone Great, The Bold Type) and was produced by a largely-female crew (more than 50%), including the Director of Photography, producer, and editor, among many other positions. You can watch the promo of the film here.  If you'd like to learn more about Caroline, you can follow her on Instagram, on Twitter, or at her website here.  If you'd like to learn more about Healing Tree, the non-profit Caroline supports, you can do that here.  To support the Biden/Harris campaign, click right here.  Please visit Vote.org to make sure you are registered to vote, get election reminders, request an absentee ballot, or find your polling place.  You can follow Lisa on Instagram here. You can follow Misty on Instagram here. You can follow GHY on Instagram here and on Twitter here.  As always, please rate, review, and subscribe to Go Help Yourself.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, we are joined by special guest Renee Colvert of the podcast "Can I Pet Your Dog?" to talk about how dogs can contribute to self-help. Renee Colvert is a Los Angeles based writer, comedian, and co-host of the wildly successful and entertaining podcast Can I Pet Your Dog? If you'd like to learn more about Renee, check out her twitter and instagram. If you'd like to see the explosion of adorableness that is her dog Tugboat, check out his very own instagram, too! (You can also see many other cute animals on GHY's insta account here.) Misty and Lisa were also guests on CIPYD and got to meet Tugboat, bring Lisa's dog Wrigley, and talk about her journey with him and her other dog Zoey. Check out that episode here. If you'd like to listen to the episode of GHY that covers the book Fed Up by Gemma Hartley, you can do that here.  And if you'd like to read I'll Be Home Soon, the book about preventing and treating your dog's separation anxiety, you can purchase it here.  As always, please rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty review Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. Carol Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and has won nine lifetime achievement awards for her research. She addressed the United Nations on the eve of their new global development plan and has advised governments on educational and economic policies. Her work has been featured in almost every major national publication, and she has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California. We cover the major concepts in this Mindset book review podcast, including: The Fixed Mindset The Growth Mindset How we form our Mindsets How to praise children so they develop a Growth Mindset How to change your Mindset If you like what you're hearing, you can purchase the book here.  You can also learn more about the author here.  In this episode, we also mention how much we love the book The Self-Driven Child. You can check out our review of the book here: The Self-Driven Child Part 1 The Self-Driven Child Part 2 Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, we review five terms feminists should know according to an instagram post from The Feminist Collective: intersectionality, gaslighting, derailing, cultural appropriation, and androcentrism. This amazing post covers the parts of speech, definitions and types of use of each word, where applicable. If you'd like to hear our episode covering The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, you can do that right here.  Be sure to rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands