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

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...

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 coo...

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 Holly...

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 Influenti...

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 @i...

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 cons...

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...

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 Exp...

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty is joined by special guest Lauriel Marger, who speaks about her experiences as a working artist. This is a special follow up to the War of Art book review that is not to be missed! If you'd like to follow Lauriel on social media, you can do so @lozmaza And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself! Advertising Inquiries: https://...

This week, Lisa and Misty cover The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield. Steven Pressfield was an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout, attendant in a mental hospital, fruit-picker in Washington state, and screenwriter. His struggles to make a living as an author, including the period...

On this edition of the weekly beef, Misty shares an article from the New York Times in defense of a good cry .  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Happy Independence Day! This week, Misty and Lisa bring you the New York Times Bestseller A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump by David Plouffe. Plouffe is an American  political strategist  best known as the  campaign manager  for  Barack Obama 's successful  2008 presidential campaign . He was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the president's first day in office and was t...

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty checks in on her homework from A Grief Observed: sharing a list of the things she's grieving while in quarantine.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, joined by special guest host Dr. Nikita T. Hamilton, we cover A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.  Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and...

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Lisa shares an article about how to make the most of your therapy sessions from Bottom Line Personal . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty review The international bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. According to the author's page on Amazon.com, Norman Vincent Peale was born in the Ohio hamlet of Bowersville on May 31, 1898, and was the son of a physician turned Methodist minister. He grew up to become the author of 46 books, including the inspirational best seller of a...

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty checks in on her homework from White Fragility, and Lisa & Misty share which self-help books they'd include on a shelf if they could only choose six. (Shelf-help!) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Misty and Lisa are delighted to bring to you the New York Times Bestseller White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. Robin DiAngelo has her PhD in Multicultural Education, and is currently Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. She researches Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analys...

On this edition of the Weekly Beef, Misty shares a post from Mark Manson about 5 Problems with the Self-help Industry . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, Lisa and Misty review the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Glennon Doyle   is the author of #1  New York Times  bestsellers UNTAMED (a Reese’s Book Club selection) and LOVE WARRIOR (an Oprah’s Book Club selection),   as well as the  New York Times  bestseller CARRY ON, WARRIOR .  An activist and thought leader, Glennon is the founder and president of Together Risin...

Misty checks in on her homework from The Dance of Anger and Lisa reads a listener e-mail with a thought-provoking question: is there such a thing as toxic femininity? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On today’s bonus episode, Lisa and Misty create a starter list for our white listeners to help them take actions to be better allies. If you are confused about the difference between “white saviors” and allyship, and to read a list of frequently asked questions, you can head to https://nowhitesaviors.org/faqs/ .  Easy actions to take: Donate to organizations doing the work: The National Council fo...

This week Lisa and Misty cover the renowned classic and New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner. Harriet Lerner, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist, contributor to psychoanalytic concepts regarding family and feminist theory and therapy, and the author of many books. From 1972 to 2001 she was a staff psy...

This week, Misty is joined by very special guests Frank and Matt who had their house tidied by Marie Kondo! If you'd like to watch their episode of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, check it out on Netflix; it's episode 5.  You can find Frank on instagram @Frank. Arthur. Smith and on Twitter @FAS4US And you can find Matt on instagram @Matt__Hartman And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and r...