Help Hole with Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh

Jan 31 2025 34 ep. 49 mins 316
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Comedians Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh take turns reading Self Help Books and telling you what they got (and didn’t get) out of them. It’s earnest!! But also it’s funny?

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The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

Jan 31 2025 70 mins  
... And shopping and doing No Buy or Low Buy Years. NOTE: I (Sofie) refer to Aja Barber as Aja Barker - a very rude mistake from my end, I apologise profusely! Also I just learned that I also mispronounced her first name. I'm so so so sorry. MAIN SOURCE The Year of Less by Cait Flanders Cait Flanders' Substack about The Year of Less REFERENCES Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Fland

PSA and also, the Basic Tools of The Artist's Way

Jan 10 2025 36 mins  
Just a little update on this month's (late!) episode and some Artist Way Introduction Stuff...A List of All The Books We've Covered HereSubscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January!Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTokSofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and FacebookAbby is on Instagram, TikTok and ThreadsAbby is

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Dec 02 2024 84 mins  
MAIN SOURCEHow To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale CarnegieREFERENCESFlirtology by Jean SmithBad People Podcast on BBC SoundsA List of All The Books We've Covered HereSubscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January!Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTokSofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and FacebookAbby is

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Nov 04 2024 82 mins  
Do you spend too much time on your phone? And would you like to spend LESS time on your phone? Well, this is the episode for you. Abby has a problem and Sofie might also have a problem, if she'd be up for admitting to it. Abby has read Cal Newport's book on Digital Minimalism and is up for the challenge. MAIN SOURCEDigital Minimalism by Cal NewportREFERENCESThe Artist's Way by Juli

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

Oct 07 2024 67 mins  
We throw ourselves at KC Davies' book How To Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach To Cleaning and Organising. We discuss shame and executive dysfunction and tidying and cleaning, but in a real FUN WAY. MAIN SOURCE How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davies REFERENCES Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price, Ph.D KC Davies' podcast Struggle Care The episode we did on Hygge

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Sep 02 2024 81 mins  
Oh, it's a Big One. It's finally here. The Artist's Way, read and presented by Abby, who has read it five times and who lives it on a daily basis. It's the Bible of creativity and we're here to discuss it. If you want to join our little discussion group in January, sign up to our Patreon here and be ready. MAIN SOURCE The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron REFERENCES Abby's friend Katie

Couples Therapy or The Specifics of Demise (TEASER)

Aug 12 2024 21 mins  
A little teaser of our brand new Patreon SPECIAL bonus episode. Sofie has watched Couples Therapy, but first, we get into talking about the apocalypse again. Also, Abby sings. Does she sing well? Time will tell. Listen on Patreon now.

On Connection by Kae Tempest

Aug 05 2024 65 mins  
We dive into Kae Tempest's On Connection - a book about connections and the magic that happens when connection happens and other stuff to do with connection. (Sofie writes these blurbs and there is a chance Sofie didn't fully understand what the book was about.) We also discuss weddings and creativity. It's fun. MAIN SOURCE On Connection by Kae Tempest ALSO MENTIONED Self Compassio

Sofie's Quote Show (TEASER)

Jul 29 2024 20 mins  
It's another little teaser. On Patreon, you can find the full episode (and you can watch the episode too, on video!), where, still at Sofie's place, Abby and Sofie go over some of the inspirational quotes Sofie has saved in her phone. But Abby struggles to get over the fact that Sofie owes her money. It's a very inspirational episode.Patreon is here - sign up for just £3 a month!

Nicolas Cage (What's That About?) But Don't Look It Up (TEASER)

Jul 15 2024 22 mins  
In this SPECIAL EPISODE (of which you only get a little teaser) recorded in the SAME ROOM (which you can also see as a video on Patreon!), we discuss stand-up, Nicolas Cage (or should we say... Nicolas Coppola) and trains and more stuff.Sign up on Patreon for the full episode and loads more goodies here.