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A call-in show from author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they're really doing. Operators (me) are standing by to take your calls.

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Ep. 05 - Stoptimizing: Life Beyond Productivity w/ Maria Bowler

Mar 03 2025 45 mins

Rise and Grind, Girlbosses! It’s time to GROWTH HACK your way to your BEST SELF and make this the ULTIMATE year. If you don’t have time, you can make time, because excuses are no excuse.Just kidding! Like so many of us, author Maria Bowler found herself caught up in the Productivity Machine, which demands we do more and more and more for the sake of…what, exactly? For the sak

Ep. 04 - I Hate My Friend's Partner...

Feb 25 2025 22 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit noraborealis.substack.comWe’ve all been there, haven’t we? Someone we love and care about loves and cares about someone we don’t love and don’t care for. We try to be a good sport, we put on our glasses and squint, trying to see what they see. We tell ourselves that even inner beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Ep. 02 - Are You Lonely?

Jan 28 2025 32 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit noraborealis.substack.comLoneliness is, according to people who know about these things, an epidemic on par with smoking and obesity. It affects our physical and mental health…and it seems like it’s affecting everyone. Because there are enough reasons to feel or be lonely as there are stars in the sky, today’s call

The Kindness of Strangers (Bonus Ep!)

Jan 22 2025 32 mins

THINGS ARE DEFINITELY NOT OK RIGHT NOW! We know it. You know it. Your dog knows it (who told her??). But even when things are terrible, there’s something out there — however small — that is at least…okay. It’s times like this (you know what I mean) when the okay things mean even more. The barista at Dutch Bros. who wrote HAPPY BIRTHDAY with a smiley face on Ralph’s birt

Ep. 01 - Independence Is A Myth

Jan 14 2025 23 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit noraborealis.substack.comThe first episode of our new call-in show is here, and we have two callers who seemed to be totally unrelated: a new rancher in Texas, and a Swiftie with Cerebral Palsy in New York.But (get your red string and your tinfoil hat) everything is connected! Especially us. People. That’s easy to forg

Vision Boards + Family Awards

Jan 09 2025 55 mins

Thanks for Asking officially launches on January 14 right here on Substack for paid subscribers (instructions on adding the RSS feed to your podcast player are here).But on Sunday I shared that 2025 is The Year of Less and at least 5 people said they were interested in hearing more about what that means and I couldn’t wait ANOTHER week because I simply don’t have the brain stor

We're leaving Patreon! But we're not leaving you.

Dec 11 2024 8 mins

LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING! The Substack team is going to make sure your membership transfers over. If you have any problems, their email is [email protected] .After 10 years of grieving and 8 years of intense production exploring and sharing the terrible things that we've survived, I'm craving work that feels more aligned with who and where I am right now. Everything I do

What's Negative About Positivity?

Dec 01 2020 45 mins

Good vibes only? Not on this podcast. And not when psychologist Susan David is in the room (figuratively speaking, of course, because pandemic). For years, Susan has been leading the conversation about the value of *all our feelings* and how no emotion is bad or good. This episode is your antidote to toxic positivity. Originally published 12/1/2020 This is a public episode. If you'