Our Favorite Advice of 2025
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In 2025, our listeners contacted How To! for advice about outsmarting student loans, moving to a new city, hosting a low-key gathering, living with chronic pain, quitting a dream job, letting go of ADHD shame, and yes, losing your virginity in your 40s. Today on the show: Carvell Wallace and Courtney Martin get updates from some of those advice-seekers—and they check in with Jeff, whose family narrowly escaped an L.A. wildfire this year. Plus, what's ahead for How To! in 2026.
How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson and Sophie Summergrad. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our senior supervising producer is Joel Meyer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on |
| 0:25.0 | April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.1 | My big takeaway to listeners is that I hope you'll reach out to the good people in your life |
| 0:35.3 | and ask for what you need. Yeah. As a person who like historically has a hard time asking for help, this show has been a |
| 0:41.6 | revelation. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to how to. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 0:47.5 | And I'm Carvel Wallace. |
| 0:48.6 | And Courtney, we have some news, don't we? |
| 0:51.1 | We do. |
| 0:51.8 | This will be our final episode as hosts of How Too. The show will continue with new hosts, and you'll keep getting it wherever you're listening now. Yeah, and this is bittersweet for us. And so to close out our run, we thought we'd reflect on some of our favorite episodes. So we checked in with some folks that we've had on the show this year to see how they were doing and And we've got lots of voicemails and we'll share a few with you right now. |
| 1:14.3 | The first one is from Jesse who has ADHD and she was looking to kind of figure out how to |
| 1:21.8 | be in relationship with other people and also really how to be in relationship with herself. |
| 1:25.1 | This was you hosting and Dr. Sarah Wheeler as our |
| 1:28.7 | expert. Should we listen? I love this episode. Yes, please. Let's listen. Hey, Courtney. Hey, Carvel. I'm so |
| 1:35.9 | excited to get to thank you for my experience being part of the how to podcast. Being in conversation |
| 1:43.5 | with Carvel and Dr. Sarah Wheeler was truly |
| 1:48.6 | transformative. I've never been in conversation with two other people who have ADHD about what |
| 1:55.7 | it's like and what it's like to parent in that way. And so just being seen and heard |
| 2:04.9 | at a very deep fundamental level, |
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