Hello and welcome to How To Be Fine. I'm Kristen Meinser.

And I am to let the Greenberg, in each episode of How To Be Fine, we weigh in on what's happening

in the world of happiness, health and betterment, and we offer a bit of advice to those who want

it.

Now are we qualified to do all this? We like to think so. We've lived by the rules of

nearly a hundred self-help books for our other podcasts by the book, so we've tried on almost

every kind of wellness trend.

And besides, we're not here promising to make you the best, richest, most optimal, happiest

version of yourself. Like if all goes well, we're just here to help you feel a little closer

to fine.

Now, first order of business, some of you are here because you subscribe to our show

by the book. And you might be wondering what's going on here, our Jolenta and Kristen no

longer living by self-help books. Well, we never hear about self-help again. Rest assured,

all the by the book episodes are still in this very feed, and we're still going to talk

about self-help on this show. But you're also going to hear about a lot more.

Here's how it's going to work. In each episode of the show, we'll answer letters from two

advice seekers. Sometimes we'll apply what we've learned from self-help books. Sometimes

we'll throw what we've learned out the window because let's be real. A lot of self-help

advice is actually really bad. But before we get to our advice, we'll start things off

by bringing our self-help knowledge to a busy, betterment topic. We're calling the segment

the hot topic. In the hot topic, one of us will tell the other about a story in the world

of wellness that's grabbed our attention. We'll ground it in research, our life experiences,

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