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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’s been through the exact same thing? On Proxy, we find just the person you were looking for, the person who can help you get unstuck. It’s not therapy - it’s emotional investigative journalism™️. New cases every other Tuesday.

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DON'T LET THIS LONG LIST FOOL YOU 😇 EVERYONE EXCEPT YOWEI IS EXTREMELY PART-TIME ⌛️

Host/Creator/Producer

Yowei Shaw

Yowei is a podcast host, producer, and emotional investigative journalist™️. 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.

Intern

Charlie Kline

Charlie is an intern on Proxy, where she does research, promotion, and other odds and ends. She recently graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio with a degree in gender studies and sociology. Now, she lives in West Philly with her boyfriend and their five-inch-tall gecko, Stevie. She likes to read books and do crafts and play bass and watch strange movies with her friends. Some of her niche emotional conundrums include wishing she could buy everything at the farmer’s market and that she could bring Stevie along to taste the samples.