New to Pr xy?
We get it. There's a lot of episodes. Here's a list that we recommend starting with.
When Yowei Shaw got laid off from NPR, she didn't just feel bad. She was confused by how bad she felt and how long the bad lasted. So Yowei does what she usually does in a situation like this - she reported on her feelings. Then things go left.
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With every layoff, there's the blackbox of what's really going on behind the scenes. Why did it go down the way it did? Was it really not about your performance, like they told you? How does the layoff list get made anyway? In our inaugural proxy conversation, we connect Miles and Elliot with a proxy HR professional to answer their layoff questions.
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The case of the George, the bisexual wife guy who got dumped. In this episode, we find a proxy to stand in for a listener's ex - another queer woman who left her straight relationship.
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Listen to Hanna’s podcasts Radio Atlantic and Chutzpod!
The case of Amanda, a writer whose internal monologue won't stop narrating her life, instead of just letting her live it.
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Read Amanda Montell's books The Age of Magical Overthinking, Cultish, and Wordslut
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Listen to Amanda's podcasts Magical Overthinkers and Sounds Like a Cult
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Follow Amanda on Instagram @amanda_montell
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Learn more about Jonathan Adler's work
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Follow Jonathan on X @JonathanMAdler, Bluesky @jadler.bsky.social, and LinkedIn
The case of Brian, a journalist whose mother-in-law has Alzheimer's. Even though Brian knows she can’t help misremembering things, he can’t stop losing his patience with her, and with himself.
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Listen to Brian Reed's podcast Question Everything
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Follow Brian on Instagram @brihreed and X @BriHReed
Anya Kamenetz was having trouble coping with the state of the world. So she decided to report on those feelings. In this conversation, Anya shares what she learned from talking to scientists, activists, and thinkers about our collective emotions - why we feel the things we do, the limits of those feelings, and how to move through them to take action.
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Read Anya's newsletter The Golden Hour
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Listen to We Are the Great Turning, a podcast Anya produced with eco-spiritual teacher Joanna Macy about love, courage, and connection in the climate crisis
Yowei has a problem. She's having trouble explaining the show to people who don't get it. She knows proxy conversations work. But why? How? Part 1 of a 4-part quest to solve the mystery of proxy conversations. Yowei learns about a proxy conversation happening in a completely different context: restorative justice with proxy survivors and offenders.
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