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It’s the knot you can’t untangle - a problem so unique, it makes you feel alone. But what if you could talk to someone who gets it? On Proxy, we find just the person you were looking for, — a stranger who can help you get less stuck. It’s not therapy - it’s emotional investigative journalism™️.

The team is hard at work investigating another batch of cases and we'll be back with new episodes mid-Aprill 2026 🚀

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Team

Proxy is made by a tiny, but mighty team: one full-time journalist and a handful of trusted collaborators.

Host/Creator/Executive Producer

Yowei Shaw

Yowei is the full-time host, producer, and emotional investigative journalist at Proxy. In her previous life, she spent many years making NPR's Invisibilia. Her current niche emotional conundrum is desperately wanting to put her feet up on the windshield in the passenger seat, but knowing now that it is not safe.

Editor

Tim Howard

Tim is a story editor and musician. He previously was editor & creative director at Reply All, and a reporter/producer at Radiolab. He has lived in Berlin since 2018.

Mixing Engineer/Bedraggled Podcast Spouse

Kyle Pulley

When Kyle is not mastering Proxy late at night, he's producing records and running Headroom Studios, where he's worked with such artists as Dr. Dog, Alex G, Hop Along, Jay Som, and many others. His niche emotional conundrum is yearning for the open road of tour and sleeping on strangers' couches.