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

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa & Misty share emails from listeners who are making their homes more hyggelig during safer-at-home times.  Don't know what "hyggelig" means? Check out our episode on The Little Book of Hygge (episode #43)! It's a wonderful concept all about making your home and life more cozy. We'd love to hear from you, too! Email us at gohelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com. And make sure to follow us on instagram @GoHelpYourselfPodcast Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself. It's very hygge of you!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, by listener request, Misty and Lisa take turns interviewing each other so you can get to know your hosts! You can follow Lisa Linke on instagram @itslinke and you can follow Misty Stinnett @mistyrose. And of course, be sure to follow Go Help Yourself podcast @gohelpyourselfpodcast on Instagram and @GHYpodcast on Twitter. If you'd like to see Lisa's hilarious Dance Moms parody that Misty mentions, check out Dog Moms here.  And if you'd like to check out Previs Pro, the storyboarding program Misty mentions for vision boarding, you can do that 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, Misty checks in on her homework from OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? and brings us a hilarious article from the New York Times about people who hate cooking in quarantine. Here are the Internet Chefs that Misty and Lisa mention during the episode: Gemma Stafford of Bigger Bolder Baking Chef John of Food Wishes Tabitha Brown Can you relate to the cooking disasters from this episode? Let us know by getting in touch! IG: @gohelpyourselfpodcast twitter: @ghypodcast Email: gohelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com And please rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa & Misty review the newly-released OMG WTF Does The Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work by Ben Sheehan. 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. In this OMG WTF Does The Constitution Actually Says? book review, we cover the Preamble and Article I of The U.S. Constitution. If you’d like to see what the author is up to, check out his twitter account. If you’d like to buy the book, you can do so here. And as always, 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 & Misty talk about how some white actors in Hollywood are issuing mea culpas about playing or voicing Black, Indigenous, or Characters of Color, and about how apologizing can be an important part of self-help. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa review the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller.  She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo’s work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets.  In this So You Want to Talk About Race book review, we primarily cover Ijeoma Oluo's suggested tips of how to have conversations about race, but this book covers everything from police brutality to the school-to-prison-pipeline to cultural appropriation to the model minority myth, and so much more. It is a must-read for anyone hoping to strengthen their knowledge of how to be anti-racist and how to be a better ally.  If you'd like to learn more about Ijeoma Oluo, you can do so at her website here.  If you'd like to purchase the book, you can do so here. If you'd like to listen to the podcasts Lisa and Misty mention to better understand how race was invented and constructed, please check out 1619 and Scene On Radio's Seeing White.  You can also contact your senators, sign petitions, make your voice heard and generally resist by using the amazing interface ResistBot! It truly takes only seconds. Sign up by texting "resist" to 50409.  And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

A Tale Of Two Quarantines... On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa shares her low-key trolling of Mark Manson on twitter (not really) and gives us a birds-eye view of what must be the greatest twitter non-feud-turned-into-epic-feuding-by-making-it-one: James Clear's quarantine tweets vs. Mark Manson's quarantine tweets You can follow both of these prolific tweeters at @jamesclear and @iammarkmanson Be sure to rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa review the international bestseller The Drama Of The Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller. Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher and noted public intellectual.  Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential. In 1953 Miller gained her doctorate in philosophy, psychology and sociology. Between 1953 and 1960, Miller studied psychoanalysis and practiced it between 1960 and 1980 in Zürich. In this Drama Of The Gifted Child book review, Lisa and Misty talk about the three sections of the book: 1: The Drama Of The Gifted Child And How We Became Psychotherapists 2: Depression And Grandiosity: Two Related Forms Of Denial 3: The Vicious Circle Of Contempt If you want to learn more about the author, read letters written to her over her lifetime, see more information about her work, or view her original paintings, you can visit her website. If you want to purchase this book, you can do so 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, Misty and Lisa return to Stassi Schroeder, an author whose book they previously reviewed, to discuss her repeated bad behavior and the most recent consequences she experienced. You can read about the controversy here. Misty also shares an article from The Blissful Mind about what happens when self-care isn't enough.  And please remember to rate, review and subscribe to Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa cover How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens. Thanks to Longtime Loyal Listener Jonneke for the recommendation! Dr. Sönke Ahrens is a writer and researcher in the field of education and social science, and author of the award-winning book Experiment and Exploration: Forms of World-Disclosure: From Epistemology to Bildung. He has worked at different universities, most recently as an interim professor for philosophy of education at the University for the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich. In this How to Take Smart Notes book review, Lisa and Misty explain what the Zettelkasten method is, and cover all three parts of the book from the following chapters: Introduction Everything You Need to Know Everything You Need to Do Everything You Need to Have A Few Things to Keep in Mind The Four Underlying Principles Writing Is the Only Thing That Matters Simplicity Is Paramount Nobody Ever Starts From Scratch Let the Work Carry You Forward The Six Steps to Successful Writing Separate and Interlocking Tasks Read for Understanding Take Smart Notes Develop Ideas Share Your Insight Make It a Habit Interested in seeing how a slip-box looks visually? Want to better visualize how to use the Zettelkasten method? Try this YouTube video. If you’d like to see how someone uses Zettelkasten software for their slip-box needs, check out this video. If you’d like to learn more about the author and see the slip-box tools available, you can do so at his website here. If you'd like to purchase the book, you can do so here. And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands