What does "self-help" even mean? [Bonus]

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

No guest for this quick bonus episode. We sat down to brainstorm a little about our mission with this show in light of changes coming to the categories in Apple Podcasts. Our main category “Fitness and Nutrition” is being split up, and “Self-help” -- in which we're also listed -- is going away. Mental Health is being added as well as Self Improvement (under Education). These changes are supposed to occur later in this Summer (2019). That prompted us to discuss what self-help means, and ponder a few other questions: How often the words self-help NOT followed by the word “guru?” If self-help is such a huge category for books, why take that category away from podcasts? We try hard not to take any guru stances, but what are we really? How much of self-help is really mental health self-care, and how much is actually self-improvement (gaining new information or learning new skills)? How do we make the information we provide more findable in this new environment? We also touch on anxiety and depression as they related to self-help, and Mike also discusses some personal experiences with counseling and mental health care. Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Connor O’Neal. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo.

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0:00.0	You're listening to 50% facts.
0:10.2	The show where we try to answer specific questions on an individual topic and then at the
0:14.7	end we bring in an expert to give you the real answers.
0:17.8	I'm Jimmy Donald and I'm Mike Farh.
0:20.6	Welcome to our show.
0:28.0	Welcome to the bonus episode.
0:32.4	Some people liked when we had the one only Omar Yisuf on and we're just rambling about
0:37.5	Star Wars which we want.
0:38.5	We're going to say that today.
0:39.5	Now Star Wars talk about Jim and I've been talking off air as we do per usual and
0:45.4	things are changing on the iTunes platform which means changes probably maybe how you
0:50.2	guys digest or find new podcasts also changes some back end things for us which is if you
0:56.1	guys you know I guess I never really had a quote unquote real job but I used to hang
1:00.3	out with my dad a lot and he did sales and management and all this stuff for AT&T and
1:05.5	we go golfing with all his friends who worked for AT&T and I never really got it because
1:10.2	I was like man they can't love their job that much but they're always talking about
1:14.0	their job and they're talking about changes and they're talking about different management
1:16.5	and what like team members are trying to pick up to reach different quotas and what
1:20.1	you know when you work for a big company like that and so you know in the world that we
1:23.7	live in content creation business small business whatever it might be that's often the
1:31.5	topic of conversation so Jim and I always talking about not only what we're doing what
1:34.9	we want to do what we want to improve on but with the different platforms we're doing
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