Episodes

Show Notes This week, Patricia checks in about initial feelings after the election and offers a few bits of advice on where to focus your energy first. Mentioned on the…

Show Notes This week we share our plans for taking care of ourselves during election day as well as some communication advice around hard subjects. We also talk about a…

Show Notes This week we chat about how we can prepare for the next few months. The end of the year can be difficult and complicated for some of us,…

Show Notes This week we chat about how it is impossible to be fully ethical consumers under capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. These systems are actually dependent on unethical…

Show Notes This week we chat about some of the reasons it can be so hard to ask for what we want. We talk about the importance of asking for…

Show Notes This week talk about time anxiety, specifically in the ways we’ve been seeing it show up in our own lives. There are many ways that time anxiety can…

Show Notes This week we share a mélange, a medley, a menagerie, a veritable smorgasbord of some of our favorite advice. Some of it is great advice and some of…

Show Notes Many of our fellow left-leaning folks have been shouting phrases like, “Black women will save us” and “Listen to Black women.” In today’s show, we dig in and…

Show Notes It’s an election year and these internet streets are wild! This week, we give a 101 on misinformation and disinformation. We define the terms and talk about ways…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole talk about the quickening descent forcing us further into conservatism in the United States and beyond and some advice on what we can all do…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole offer some coming out advice for folks who are queer and haven’t yet shared it (and want to). We share some of our own coming…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole give a Queer 101 for straight folks who want to learn more about Pride and the queer community but don’t know where to start. We…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole help demystify seeking an ADHD diagnosis, provide information to help you decide if seeking an ADHD diagnosis is right for you, and discuss how to…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole share advice on how to find a therapist that is right for you regardless of your identity with added advice for folks who are queer…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about their upcoming wedding anniversary and share their tradition of rereading their vows every year. They talk about how the ways in which their…

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…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about how effing rad public libraries are and share some of the free in-person resources that they’ve encountered at their local libraries. There are…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about imposter syndrome, how many of us underestimate our abilities, bartending, and high ropes courses. This episode is based on Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about all the wonderful things sending and receiving snail mail has to offer as well as some of the common things holding folks back…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about the not-so-secret primary causes of burnout and what you can (and can’t) do about it. This episode is based on Enthusiastic Encouragement &…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about the complexities and pitfalls of being socialized to always be helpful or useful but to never ask for or need help themselves. This…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about how learning a skill and becoming proficient at something often has little to do with having the newest, fanciest instruments and gear. They…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about the common pressure to link people’s identities and worth to their jobs and ways in which they are rallying against it for themselves….

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about what they learned this year, how they approach setting goals, and dare to have some ambitions for 2024. Note: We talk about food…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about how they mash up terms borrowed from chronic illness explanations and Dungeons & Dragons. This episode is based on Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about perfectionism and it probably isn’t the first time! Of course, Patricia also talks about books and offers her ruminations on André 3000’s recent…

Show Notes Patricia and Nicole chat about why they’re making a self-help podcast. They also dig into the arbitrary rules we make up for ourselves and how they are completely…

Show Notes We are finally making a podcast based on the popular Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice Newsletter! Patricia Elzie-Tuttle shares resources and self-help for the rest of us who…