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

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty checks in on her homework from The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, and is joined by special guest Andrew Skotzko to talk about the experience of doing a virtual meditation retreat.  If you tried to find your “why” and your “just cause” as outlined in last episode's book review of The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, let us know how it went! Misty and Lisa can be reached at Gohelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com and Andrew Skotzko can be reached at connect@enliven.fm. We'd love to hear from you! You can also visit Andrew's website here, and listen to his podcast, Enliven with Andrew Skotzko, here.  Misty and Andrew completed their virtual meditation retreat through Spiritrock.org. Misty also loves The Headspace App for meditation, as well as these two virtual yoga classes: Perseverance Yoga with Victoria Gluchoski Yoga with Adriene And Andrew recommends: The Insight Meditation Society Insight LA Waking Up Meditation App The 10% Happier Meditation App Please subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, we review The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, joined by special guest host Andrew Skotzko.  Simon Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. From members of Congress to foreign ambassadors, from small businesses to corporations like Microsoft and 3M, from Hollywood to the Pentagon, he has presented his ideas about the power of why. He has written multiple books, including the New York Times bestsellers Leaders Eat Last and Start With Why, and is quoted frequently by national publications. We cover the following ideas in this Infinite Game book review: Finite vs. Infinite Games Just Cause Trusting Teams Worthy Rivals Existential Flexibility The Courage to Lead If you like what you're hearing, you can purchase The Infinite Game here. You can also visit Simon Sinek's website here.  Special guest host Andrew Skotzko is a product leader with insatiable curiosity for how we build better futures. He's been building and advising tech startups and social ventures for a decade and has worked on award-winning products directly supporting tens of millions of users. Previously, Andrew served as entrepreneur-in-residence with Dr. Peter Diamandis, as Hacker-in-Residence at 500 Startups (which is a fund that invests in early-stage startups) and is also part of the adjunct faculty at Singularity University, a think tank in Silicon Valley.  His mission is to give life to human potential, creativity, and consciousness through social science and technology. His podcast, ENLIVEN, is an exploration of how conscious leaders can build products and companies with a soul, and make things that make things better. If you'd like to learn more, please visit Andrew's website here. You can listen to his podcast, Enliven with Andrew Skotzko, here. And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa reads Misty parts of an article from The Atlantic about how the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo is not always well received by people in the Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities. The article was written by John McWhorter. McWhorter is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He teaches linguistics at Columbia University, hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley, and is the author, most recently, of Words on the Move. If you'd like to hear our White Fragility book review episode, you can do so right here. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty review the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Charlie Mackesy is an artist, cartoonist and book illustrator who has lived and worked on four continents. His work features in books, private collections and both public and private spaces around the world. He collaborated with Nelson Mandela in 2006 to create a set of lithographs. In this The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse book review, Lisa and Misty cover an article from The Washington Post that explains how the book came to be, who the author is, and the impact it’s had on the world since its publication in October 2019. Lisa also shares with Misty some of the drawings from the book, which you can see excerpts from on the author’s Instagram. If you like what you're hearing, you can purchase the book here. You can also learn more about the author at his website.  And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa checks in on her homework from The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday. Then, Misty asks a thought-provoking question: would you take your struggles back if you could?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty & Lisa review the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday. Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. When he was 19 years old, he dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power. He had a successful marketing career at American Apparel and went on to found a creative agency called Brass Check, which has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors, including Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss. He is the author of ten books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, Conspiracy, and Stillness is the Key, which have sold more than two million copies in thirty languages.  We cover every part of the book in this Obstacle Is the Way Book Review, including: Part 1: PERCEPTION Part 2: ACTION Part 3: WILL If you like what you're hearing, and want to know more, you can  learn more about the author at his website here.  If you'd like to purchase the book, you can do so here. If you'd like to listen to the other episodes of Go Help Yourself that Lisa and Misty mention, check out their reviews of How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (all about the Zettelkasten method) and The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson.  As always, please subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, we check in on Misty's homework from The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Then, we read a listener email about How to Take Smart Notes from fellow podcast host Andrew Skotzko. And as a bonus, Lisa lets us know how trolling Mark Manson on twitter is going! We mention the article links Andrew Skotzko sent, and here they are: The zettelkasten method is closely related to a much older practice called commonplace books (as described in this article by Ryan Holiday). To that end, you might enjoy some of these related resources: Why & How to keep a commonplace book Ryan Holiday's notecard system — one of the better fleshed out implementations of this idea that I've seen Syntopical reading (pulled from Adler's excellent book on ... how to read a book) Creating an idea index while reading, from Maria Popova via Tim Ferriss via Cal Newport  Also, check out Andrew's podcast Enliven with Andrew Skotzko!  And as always, please rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty review the New York Times Bestseller The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. Originally released in 2012, this book spent more than sixty weeks on the NYT Bestseller list! Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University, and a frequent guest on This American Life, NPR, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Frontline, and other programs. We cover each section in this Power of Habit book review, including: PART ONE The Habits of Individuals THE HABIT LOOP How Habits Work THE CRAVING BRAIN How to Create New Habits THE GOLDEN RULE OF HABIT CHANGE Why Transformation Occurs PART TWO The Habits of Successful Organizations KEYSTONE HABITS, OR THE BALLAD OF PAUL O’NEILL Which Habits Matter Most STARBUCKS AND THE HABIT OF SUCCESS When Willpower Becomes Automatic THE POWER OF A CRISIS How Leaders Create Habits Through Accident and Design HOW TARGET KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT BEFORE YOU DO When Companies Predict (and Manipulate) Habits PART THREE The Habits of Societies SADDLEBACK CHURCH & THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT How Movements Happen THE NEUROLOGY OF FREE WILL Are We Responsible for Our Habits? If you would like to purchase the book, you may do so here. If you would like to learn more about the author, you can visit his website. And if you'd like to listen to our episode on Atomic Habits by James Clear, you can do that right here.  As always, please rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself! It really does help other amazing listeners, like you, find our podcast!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa checks in on her homework from The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. Then, she presents a challenge to both herself and Misty: say something you're good at, without making any disclaimers.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa review the New York Times Bestseller The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection by Michael A. Singer. Michael A. Singer is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul and New York Times bestseller The Surrender Experiment, which have been published worldwide. He had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. He is also the creator of a leading-edge software package that transformed the medical practice management industry, and founding CEO of a billion dollar public company whose achievements are archived in the Smithsonian Institution. Along with his more than four decades of spiritual teaching, Michael has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, healthcare, and environmental protection. Misty covers every part of the book in this Surrender Experiment book review.  If you'd like to listen Go Help Yourself's review of The Untethered Soul (also by Michael A. Singer), you can do so here.  And if you'd like to learn more about Michael Singer, check out his website.  If you'd like to purchase the book, you can do so here. If you haven't already, please subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands