How to Self Help Yourself

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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What happens when you live out self-help advice? Cristen and Caroline find out from By the Book co-hosts Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg. The pair has done exactly that with more than 50 self-improvement books, including The Secret, Girl Wash Your Face and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. It’s all to find out: What is self-help really selling us, and why are women are so drawn to it?

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0:00.0	One of the current, I'm gonna say it, manifestations of self-help is the goop model of self-help.
0:10.4	Buy more stuff.
0:11.4	Buy more stuff.
0:12.4	Buy more stuff.
0:13.4	Buy this new trend.
0:14.4	Buy this your body.
0:15.4	$100 egg in your scooter.
0:16.4	Your vagina.
0:17.4	I can't know.
0:18.4	Yeah.
0:19.4	Everything is free.
0:20.4	That one's your your depression.
0:21.4	Lady, let's go.
0:28.4	Lady, let's go.
0:37.4	Hey y'all and welcome to One Lady Like, the show that finds out what happens when women break the rules.
0:42.4	I'm Kristen.
0:43.4	I'm Caroline.
0:44.4	And today, we're joined by the dazzling duo of Kristen Minds' Air and Jelena Greenberg.
0:48.4	They host the podcast by the book and on their show Kristen and Jelena don't just talk about self-help books.
0:54.4	They actually live by a different one every two weeks to see whether it's actually life changing.
0:59.4	So Caroline, I first stumbled on by the book in kind of a meta way because I just reached in a specially tough part of writing our
1:07.4	self-helpy, unlady-like book and I was just feeling drained and lonely.
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