Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-Help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less · Misty Stinnett & Lisa Linke

RE-RELEASE: You Are A Badass: How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness And Start Living An Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

January 28, 2025·1 hr 6 min·4 clips

Lisa argues that no one should be told they can “cure MS by giving 29 things away.”

Go Help Yourself returns to _You Are a Badass_. Lisa Linke and Misty Stinnett frame the podcast as a comedy self-help show that walks listeners through a popular book each episode, so the audience gets the basics, the jokes, and the hosts' reactions without doing all the homework. The pace stays quick. They move through the book like two comics who are happy to interrupt, react, and then circle back to what the advice is actually saying. The Little Witty Bits line turns into a running joke. It captures how the show hears self-help jargon as both punchline and warning sign. They also spend time spelling out what the podcast is for. If someone already likes the book, the hosts are still glad to sketch it out before going deeper. The conversation tightens when the book tells a story about a woman with MS who gives things away and then feels better. One host reacts immediately and forcefully. The objection is not to generosity. It is to the way a tidy inspirational story can slide into implying that sickness is someone's fault or that a magical fix is only one mindset shift away. That pushback gives the episode its ethical backbone. It also shows why the show works when it clicks: the hosts can laugh, but they do not lose the ability to call out advice when it starts getting reckless. They do acknowledge that giving can help. There is room in the discussion for the scientific and emotional upside of helping other people. They even land on a concrete little action. If you are not driving, text someone you've been thinking about and tell them you appreciate them. The episode ends with credits and contact info, keeping the same loose, friendly energy that carries the rest of the conversation. It suits listeners who want self-help criticized with humor, not wrapped in a motivational gloss.

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A funny self-help takedown that keeps its skepticism pointed.

Jen Sincero's "You Are a Badass" gets a brisk, skeptical pass from Go Help Yourself. Lisa Linke and Misty Stinnett keep the tone light while still poking at the book's Little Witty Bits and the places where confidence starts to tip into overreach.

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You want self-help roasted without losing the useful parts.

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