How To! Our Favorite Advice of 2023
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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 interview, dealt with difficult parents, said goodbye to our pets, cooked chaotically, moved to a new country, navigated adult autism, and breathed like Navy SEALs. On this episode, co-hosts Carvell Wallace and Courtney Martin are joined by former host Amanda Ripley. They break down their favorite advice of the year and share some surprising updates from folks who were on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey how to fam before we start the show we have a favor to ask I'm so excited about this we are putting together a project on friendship and we need your questions |
| 0:10.5 | What are your friendship conundrums? Need help finding friends? Is one of your |
| 0:15.2 | friendships evolving or changing? Do you have an interesting issue surfacing with |
| 0:18.9 | like a group of friends? I know you guys got those crazy group chat moments like I do. We want your questions. |
| 0:26.0 | Seriously, send us a note at how to at slate.com or leave us a message at |
| 0:31.0 | 646 495 401. |
| 0:37.5 | Hi, how to team, this is Ysuha. |
| 0:40.0 | Journalist to reach out to you about my first time moderating a panel. I really enjoyed my first time being on stage and interacting with their guests and audiences and actually it got my second opportunity to |
| 0:56.7 | moderate a different panel and that's happening tomorrow so I'm now preparing for it. |
| 1:01.6 | I really appreciate Amanda and Magna's really whole-hearted advice. |
| 1:07.0 | And thank you so much for the whole team who made this happen. Thank you. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome to how to. I'm Carvel Wallace. I'm Courtney Martin and I'm Amanda Ripley. |
| 1:21.0 | Amanda welcome back. |
| 1:23.4 | For our newer listeners joining us, Amanda hosted this show for many, many episodes on her own and |
| 1:27.8 | then was my co-host before stepping away from the mic earlier this year. |
| 1:31.6 | So first of all, how's it going. It's going |
| 1:34.2 | great I miss you guys it's really nice to be back here with you. What have you been |
| 1:38.2 | working on in your how-to-free time? I spent way too much time down a rabbit hole doing an update to my |
| 1:47.1 | first book. I had to update it for the pandemic because it's about human behavior |
| 1:50.6 | and disasters and I don't't know if either you've ever done this, but if you have to do a new version of a book you wrote |
| 1:59.5 | 16 years ago, I would advise against it. I mean it's basically, it's like a different |
| 2:05.2 | person wrote it and you're reading it and you're like, who is this person? Why is she |
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