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You’ve got questions. Together, we get answers. We all need advice, but sometimes it’s hard to know where to turn. Each week, Courtney Martin and Carvell Wallace bring a listener on to the show to solve their toughest problems with the help of world-class experts. It’s free therapy, and you’re invi...
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How To Harness Your Anger
Contemporary women are primal-screaming and hitting rage rooms, but are these really the solutions to our personal and political anger? On this episod...
How To Quit IVF (and Start a New Chapter)
After seven years of trying to conceive, Lauren is ending fertility treatments and starting a new journey: adoption. She’s excited about this unexpect...
How To Start Reading Books Again (Encore)
Kate stopped reading in 2016. Since then, she’s tried to find her way back to it but something’s not clicking, and it’s left a book-shaped hole in her...
How To Draw Outside the Lines
Drawing isn’t just child’s play. It’s a shortcut to joy, presence, and connection—all things we could use a lot more of these days. On this episode of...
How To Live With Chronic Pain
Mavi was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis more than 15 years ago. Since then, she’s managed her symptoms and myriad life changes—but the past several...
How To Send Your Kid to College (and Keep Your Distance)
Jennifer is about to send her oldest child off to college in the fall—and her kid isn’t the only one who’s anxious about the transition. On this episo...
Living at Odds | 3. Making Amends for Ancestors
In the third installment of our series Living at Odds, How To!’s Courtney Martin examines what it’s like being in conflict with your family history. S...
Supercommunicators | 3. How to Have the Hardest Conversations
The final installment of our series explores the conversations that most of us dread, like frank discussions of our differences or a negative performa...
Supercommunicators | 2. How to Communicate Without Words
Why is it that we can tell someone “I’m totally fine!” and they instantly know we’re not? Gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, and other subtl...
Supercommunicators | 1. How to Talk to Anyone
Why are some people able to talk with just about anyone—about almost anything? One answer may lie in the questions we ask—and how deeply we ask them....
Introducing Supercommunicators
In a new miniseries inspired by Charles Duhigg’s bestseller, the former host of Slate’s How To! podcast sits down with psychologists, social scientist...
How To Man Up About Male Birth Control
Contraception is a huge burden for women and people with uteruses to bear. What would it look like—on a personal, cultural, and medical level—if more...
How To Help a Loved One With Dementia
Forgetfulness. Repetitiveness. Confusion. Dementia is a long, painful road for both the person living with it, caregivers, and their additional loved...
How To Keep Caring Amid Endless Crises
Sometimes reading our news feeds can feel like getting hit by a semi-truck of devastating information, without really knowing how to respond. We can’t...
How To Cook One Perfect Meal (Encore)
Jonny is a 26 year-old bachelor whose cooking often leads to heartache (and for one ex-girlfriend, a stomach ache). Jonny admits he’s a klutz in the k...
Our Favorite Advice of 2023
Here at How To! headquarters, we give and receive a lot of good advice. This year we learned to love our faces, started reading again, aced an intervi...
How To Transition From Soldier to Civilian
Dan enlisted in the Army in 2003 during the early phase of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He just retired after 20 years of service—and is adj...
How To Face the A.I. Revolution (Encore)
If you haven’t heard of ChatGPT, chances are you will soon. Maybe you’ve tried casually playing with the artificial intelligent chatbot. Maybe you’ve...
How To Carve Out Creative Time
Allison is on the hunt for her next hobby. One that’s satisfying. One that she can stick with. One that will fit into her family’s very busy schedule....
How To Grieve an Estranged Parent
A parent’s main job is to protect. But what happens when your parent doesn’t protect you? What happens when they not only let bad things happen to you...
How To Talk Politics Without Wrecking Relationships (Encore)
On a recent phone call Shannon’s mom didn’t mince words: The only way she’d vote for Joe Biden is if Jesus himself comes down and tells her to. Growin...
How To Get Through Menopause
Hot flashes, fatigue, and vaginal dryness were some of Katie’s first clues that her body was changing. Half the population will experience menopause,...
How To Build Trust With Co-Workers
The beginning of the school year is a gauntlet for Andrea, who coaches teachers for a living. She needs to get to know the 52 educators she’ll work wi...
How To Find Love Where You Least Expect It
Camila is torn. She wants a partner. Someone who is ambitious. Someone who is financially secure. Someone who checks in with her at the end of the day...
How To Get Out of Debt Faster Than You Think (Encore)
Irina and her husband are more than $100,000 in debt. They’re working to pay it off, but between monthly credit card bills, student loan payments, 401...
How To Say Goodbye to Your Pet
Like many pet parents, Zak Rosen and his wife lived for years in a state of denial about their beloved dog, Rumi. Then they learned that Rottweilers o...
How To Follow Your Small Business Dream
Sarah is a part-time pet groomer who dreams of opening up her own business. Having worked long hours for low wages, she can’t help thinking that she c...
How To Find Your People
Katie was ready to graduate from college when the pandemic interrupted everything. Unceremoniously cut-off from her group of friends, she’s now in a n...
How To Navigate Adult Autism
It’s a family joke that Dave and his 13 year-old son are the same person. So when his son found out he is autistic, Dave realized that he, too, is on...
How To Fill an Empty Nest (Encore)
Susan never really got over saying goodbye to her eldest daughter, who left for college four years ago. She knew it would be sad, but she didn’t expec...
How To Live Anywhere in the World
Have you ever wanted to move to a new country? Picking up and starting over internationally can be rewarding, but also nerve-wracking. Our listener Sa...
How To Show Up For a Friend With Cancer
When Gwendolyn found out her friend was diagnosed with cancer, she knew she wanted to help. She just didn’t know how. Her friend lives hundreds of mil...
How To Deal With a Difficult Parent
Every year J. and her parents fly thousands of miles, meeting in the middle for their family vacation. A vacation that often leads to shouting and tea...
How To Make Aging Easier for Everyone
Caregivers provide an estimated 600 billion dollars in free labor each year, according to the AARP. This week’s listener, Dani is one such caregiver....
How To Stop Finding Your Self-worth Through Your Job (w/ Gloria Chan Packer)
On this bonus episode from our friends at the How To Be A Better Human podcast: For some of us it’s easy to lose ourselves in our work. But a lack of...
How To Quit Your Calling
Amy and Sarah are high school English teachers who both want to quit the classroom, but for very different reasons. Amy has over 200 students, and ten...
How To Help Teachers Thrive
Today there are about four million teachers in America, and nearly a third of them are thinking about leaving their jobs. It has become harder to be a...
How To Sleep Like a Champ
Vanessa isn’t a night owl. Yet, often, you can find her lying awake desperately trying to turn off her brain. When her partner stays over she often re...
How To Deliver Bad News Better
‘I’ve got bad news’ is a sentence no one wants to hear. But at some point, all of us will either have to deliver bad news or will be on the receiving...
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It’s not easy to start a business. It’s even harder to build a successful one. Luckily, we can ask experts, entrepreneurs, and business leaders for ad...