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With Patricia (The Infophile) and Nicole

Self-help & resources for the rest of us

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The Story Behind Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice

It all started, as many things do around here, with Patricia being irritated.

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  • Library Love Letter, Part Two
    Show Notes Patricia and Nicole are back to continue their chat about how effing rad public libraries are. They share some of the free online resources that they’ve encountered through public libraries and go down a lot of rabbit holes. Mentioned on the show: Find the full show notes and official transcript on our website:… Read more: Library Love Letter, Part Two

Meet Your Hosts

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Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (aka Patricia Elzie) is a writer, podcaster, and librarian. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. More of her written work can also be found on Book Riot, in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia is co-host of the All the Books and All the Backlist podcast, where she recommends a variety of reads. She lives in Oakland, CA with her wife Nicole and a positively alarming amount of books.

Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (she/her)

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Nicole has eaten tacos in Sweden and Beijing.

Neither were remotely good. Not even passable.

Nicole Elzie-Tuttle (she/her)