Doing What Works

Doing What Works
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Doing What Works Podcast

Doing What Works is a nationally-syndicated radio talk show that helps you fix what you don't like about your life.

Episodes

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    Why do weird kinds of sad matter?

    When someone who self-identifies as frugal offers to buy you a sixteen-dollar pretzel, wouldn’t you be touched? Katie was, but she was also sad. That was nine years ago, she’s still sad, and this edition of Doing What Works is a study in wistful. Here are your show notes… What is a weird kind of sad? Are you ready for kindergarten?

    40 min

  2. SEP 3

    How do you engage with your memories?

    What strikes you about your scrapbooks, journal entries, or photo albums? This edition of Doing What Works is an ode to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Here are your show notes… Even if you don’t keep a journal, your body remembers trauma. Are you a Rememberer or a Forgetter? Like rivers, people change.

    40 min

  3. AUG 27

    How can you redefine closure?

    Letting people be is a superpower, one that’s put to the test when relationships end. We redefine closure in this edition of Doing What Works in the hope pragmatism will prevail. Here are your show notes… Their behavior was your closure, because if they wanted to act differently they would have. Closure is something you give yourself. Like rivers, people change. “There are only two questions people have fought about since the beginning of time: ‘How much do you love me?’ and ‘Who’s in charge?’” The unsettling secret of lasting love. People act when forced to act.

    40 min

  4. AUG 20

    How do you decide what to give?

    Volunteer work, donations, even taking in stray animals or people. So many ways to give back to the world. How do you choose where best to spend your time, money, and attention? We have the answer in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… The power of lollipop moments! Dick Bolles said if you search for half your vision with half your heart, you fail before you start.   Debbie Millman suggests you start with a big, fat lump in your throat. Boys State is on Apple TV+. “Wake Me Up” is my Katie-goes-to-college song. No character transformation, no story.

    40 min

  5. 12/28/2020

    Do you say yes often enough?

    You don’t know what’s going to make you happy until you try it. The job or the relationship that looks good on paper may not feel so great at, say, ten o’clock on a Tuesday. That’s one reason to say yes to more things, so you can get a better feel for more things. Saying yes is a habit and a mindset. If you practice saying yes to smaller things with low stakes, you might find yourself more willing to take bigger risks. That’s what we hope to inspire in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… Irresistible author Adam Alter [http://adamalterauthor.com/] was one of Katie’s professors at NYU Stern and “say yes” was his advice. “I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to” is from a poem by Alice E. Chase [https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/860.html] entitled “To My Grown-Up Son.” Saying “yes” (and “yes, and”) is a rule of improv [https://medium.com/the-improv-blog/the-first-rule-of-improv-is-yes-and-30e5954240d6]. “If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.” That’s from Dilbert creator Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays]. “Marriage is a big bet. It’s the only bet of its kind, one in which you say, ‘This feels right; I think I’ll change everything.’” That’s from Jerry Seinfeld [https://www.today.com/popculture/seinfeld-turns-25-read-jerrys-best-real-life-lines-1D79884423].

    39 min
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Doing What Works is a nationally-syndicated radio talk show that helps you fix what you don't like about your life.

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  • Creator
    Doing What Works
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright Doing What Works
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