Grace and Nikki both need more friends. Grace is an ICU nurse whose best friends have moved away. Nikki is an electrical engineer who worked remotely for the last year and is now moving to a new city. Making friends as an adult is hard, but not impossible. You just have to do things differently than when you were in 6th grade. On this episode of How To!, we ... Show More
Yesterday
How To Learn to Love Your City
It wasn’t long after Melody Warnick moved to Blacksburg, Va., that she realized its nickname—“Bleaksburg”—wasn’t a joke. Feeling stuck, she devised a research-based experiment to acclimate to her new city. On this episode: Melody explains how she went from hating Blacksburg to lo ... Show More
30m 27s
Nov 18
How To Move to a New City
Kerry is ready to leave rural Virginia and move to a walkable, vibrant city. The only problem? She can’t decide which walkable, vibrant city is right for her. On this episode, How To!’s Courtney Martin brings on Melody Warnick, author of This Is Where You Belong and If You Could ... Show More
39m 58s
Nov 11
How To Take Charge of Home Repair (with Sam Sanders and Mercury Stardust)
In the second half of How To!’s wide-ranging conversation about home improvement, gender, sexuality, and much more, journalist Sam Sanders and author Mercury Stardust (aka The Trans Handy Ma’am) talk with co-host Carvell Wallace about a truly daunting idea: skipping the contracto ... Show More
32m 36s
Jun 2022
How to Start Over: The Misgivings of Friend-Making
In the post-social-distancing era, some of us can’t remember how to make a new friend. But for many, making friends has always been a challenge—left as an unfulfilled desire without any clear course of action. In this episode of How to Start Over, we explore the barriers to frien ... Show More
40m 25s
May 2024
Girls Night #252: How to Navigate Friendship Conflict and Find Forever Friends — Danielle Bayard Jackson
Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!
I’m so excited about today’s episode. Today we’re talking about friendship, specifically how to navigate friendship conflict and find forever friends.
To help us with this, I invited a Girls Night favorite back on the show, my dear friend, ... Show More
1 h
Apr 2024
Why It's So Hard to Make Friends as an Adult
Making friends is hard, and unfortunately, as you get older, it gets harder.
In this episode, we look at research behind friendships, plus the complicating factors people experience in making new friends as they get older.
And for anyone struggling with their social lives, we sha ... Show More
46m 20s
Apr 2024
friendship, a talk with danielle bayard jackson [video]
[video available on spotify] i would not consider myself to be a friendship expert, and so that's why i'm very excited to talk to danielle bayard jackson. she’s a friendship coach who speaks nationally on the subject of female friendships. through her work, danielle teaches women ... Show More
48m 53s
Sep 16
Encore: S04 Ep. 07 - Vanessa’s Parental Betrayal
This week, we’re in session with Vanessa, whose father insisted she take out a huge loan she could not repay and give him all the money, then disowned her when she refused. We help her to process the loss of her entire family, and start to create a trusted, compassionate family o ... Show More
1h 17m
Jan 2024
203. How Can You Learn Effectively with Hardly Any Free Time? 3 Easy Memory Techniques with Bree Aesie from AC English Company & Into The Story Podcast
<p>How do you learn new words whilst having a 9-5 (Or perhaps 9-8), family, hobbies and all the other things going on? This is a big point for you. Bree from AC English has joined me today to share 3 easy memory techniques that can help you learn more effectively without a huge t ... Show More
23m 11s