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- Relationship Advice for All Types
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 vows have helped them maintain their romantic relationship and how they have been really useful in friendships and family relationships, too. It’s a bit of… Read more: Relationship Advice for All Types
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Relationship Advice for All Types
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…
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…
Library Love Letter, Part One
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…
[Verb] Like There’s Nobody Watching
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…
All Hail Snail Mail!
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…
Burnout is Not Your Fault
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 &…
Everyone Deserves Help (Except for Me)
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…
Episode 6: Any Knife Can Be a Throwing Knife if You Believe in Yourself
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…
Episode 5: We Do Not Dream of Labor
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….
Episode 4: 2023, Looking Back, & Looking Forward
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…
Episode 3: Spell Slot Theory
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…
Episode 2: There’s No Such Thing as 5-Star Cereal
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…
Episode 1: Breaking Rules
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…
Episode 000: Welcome to the EEDA Pod!
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…