Self? Help!
Self? Help! is the podcast for anyone who's thought: Who the hell am I? What in god’s name am I doing? And how did I get here of all places? And then to figure it all out, you turned to a book—because you’re that kind of person, and so is your host, Moth Storyteller and creator of Memory Motel, Terence Mickey. He doesn't care from where you seek your guidance, whether it’s Leo Tolstoy or Dr. Seuss. He's a firm believer that we cannot get enough help in this life and that books are, indeed, magic. In Season 1, listen in as Terence talks with New York Times best-selling authors Susan Cain, Paula McLain, Johann Hari, Sarah Knight, and Eli Finkel.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2019
Eli Finkel's Existentialist Crisis
Marriage just ain’t what it used to be. It’s evolved from a utilitarian arrangement ensuring survival and inheritance rights, to a gendered division between home and work, to a more modern agreement …
Introducing Outside the Book, Episode 1: Alan Lightman
Meet Outside the Book—a sibling podcast to Self? Help!—in which authors talk about life away from their desk to share experiences they hold dear, but have not yet committed to the page.
This episode,…
Sarah Knight’s Mental Space Manager
What do you when you're exceeding all your goals and you’ve got everything you dreamed of, but you’re still not happy? Maybe you double down on the old dream and the magical world you thought it woul…
Paula McLain’s Antidote to Toxic Love
Sometimes love hurts—but when it hurts over and over again, we’ve got to ask the toughest question of them all: why? And why won’t it stop?
In this episode, NYT bestselling author Paula McLain tells …
Johann Hari’s Key to Humanizing Addiction
Where do addicts belong? Pushed out on the fringes of society, or loved by those who can help? When the War on Drugs began, we made a choice for the former, and that choice has impacted millions of p…
Susan Cain’s Career Transformer
We learn early in life that being an extrovert is the best way to be. Later, we’re told that a few vaunted careers are the true definitions of success. And so, as an introvert who loved the world of …
Trailer: Self? Help!
Self? Help! is the podcast for anyone who thought: Who am I? What the hell am I doing? How did I get here of all places? And then to figure it all out, you turned to a book. Because you’re that kind …