Podcasts by Hey, Cool Life!
A minipod of Hey, Cool Job! with a focus on mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi.
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Building muscle memory for your future self. Why I paused talk therapy. from 2023-12-03T15:55:11
I quit! I’m cured! Congratulations me! I’m perfect! Or why I am taking a break after 8 years of intensive therapy to stop looking at game tape of Ls and Wins and start experiencing all the ways I w...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 163 from 2023-11-12T03:31:50
This one is about how I use social media to tell me how to feel. And how I use other writers’ motivation to tell me what’s wrong with my storytelling when I need to trust my own intuitions around m...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 162 from 2023-11-04T10:51
You know what’s impossible to mask? Being a tourist who knows NOTHING. This one’s about how traveling makes me way more Autistic and how weirdly great it feels.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 161 from 2023-10-28T02:21:09
Week two in Japan. This one is about enthrallment and how any intensely joyful feelings also hold grief. And how I’m reparenting my inner teen by revisiting the most hilariously, bizarre fashion wo...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 160 from 2023-10-19T23:09:20
I am Japan and working MANIC hours and feeling spectacular. This one is about not immediately vilifying erratic behaviors and accepting quirks with humor, openness and loving support. This is about...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 159 from 2023-10-14T21:43:55
You ever get burnout from trying to avoid burnout? I do. Plus, remedial affirmations for people who sorta don’t believe they work. The world is a sad, cruel place. Please be gentle with yourselves.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 158 from 2023-10-06T15:13:34
When I say have a gentle day what does that mean? How does a dog wear pants? What does being kind to yourself and your cognitive needs actually entail? For me it’s been a lot of tiny things that I ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 157 from 2023-09-29T14:27:30
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom! The writers strike is over and what that means inside my brain. Bees! It means bees. Also, how you can have FOMO for F’d up bad things because there are so many...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 156 from 2023-07-21T16:10:54
Guess what? I’m Autistic. What that means for even more gentleness and how I arrived at the decision to be assessed.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 155 from 2023-04-22T20:35:24
This is about conversation and audience. Media platforms (RIP Buzzfeed and Twitter) as well as safe spaces to create story and work out individual truths. It’s also about banned books, how it feels...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 154 from 2023-04-15T15:25:50
This one is about what it’s like to feel your feelings. And how growing up as a Korean immigrant made feelings unsafe since anything outside of ‘gratefully chill’ was an insult to parental sacrific...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 153 from 2023-04-08T14:52:32
This one is about scheduling. And how for creative work, the line between social engagements vs career obligations can be confusing. Plus, how I can tell if I really REALLY don’t want to go to a wo...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 152 from 2023-03-31T20:53:59
This one about how abundance feels dreadful and terrifying! And how to ease into the reminder that this is what it is to want and wish and actually do the work.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 151 from 2023-03-24T19:41:47
Learning when to trust your instincts and when to listen but intentionally ignore them in order to seek growth and do scary, vital things (in my case, ask people for money).
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 150 from 2023-03-17T19:21:23
This is a reflection on Adderall and creative work. And where I’ve landed on taking it as it relates to writing my novel. And how much I’ve learned in eating disorder recovery about how to frame st...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 149 from 2022-08-23T15:10:34
This one is on how I want ADHD medication to be a magical solution that doesn’t affect other aspects of my brain. And how seductive it can be to believe that my unmedicated state is a purer kind of...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 148 from 2022-08-15T12:28:51
This one is about emotional sobriety and drama addiction. And what dread and doom feels like in my body. Plus, the stunning revelation that I have been a maniac with my mom and not solely the other...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 147 from 2022-08-07T20:32:27
My memories are coming back. They’re not chronological and they don’t feel profound but as there’s been more healing and thawing and the fear is lessening, glimpses of my adolescence are returning....
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 146 from 2022-06-24T15:11:09
This is about moving as an emotionally sober person and how it sucks that I’m not totally dissociated but how I know it’s also better for me.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 145 from 2022-04-03T20:38:30
How I was diagnosed with ADHD and how being medicated and genre-aware of this hostage situation known as MY BRAIN is helping me be gentle with myself. And also how, as a dissociative person, diagno...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 144 from 2022-03-24T23:30:02
You ever have total semantic satiation around words like depression or anxiety? How I define the terms so I actually know when they show up in my body and my thoughts. When I’m convinced everyone i...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 143 from 2022-03-12T20:00:38
Do you ever cry and then sort of watch yourself cry and don’t believe yourself? Like, it doesn’t make sense that you’re still feeling some type of way about a thing or else that you can’t possibly ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 142 from 2022-02-28T17:19:06
How I do affirmations so as not to eye roll myself to death when I say them. Also, a few observations around how feelings move and become trapped in my body. TW: binging and purging.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 141 from 2022-02-22T14:42:11
Eating your grief vegetables, mourning apocryphal parents and trying to race back to work to minimize feeling.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 140 from 2022-02-16T22:42:58
When the feelings around being tired makes you so much more tired… and perfectionistic and critical. Aka the one where every time I say “tired” take a drink (of water).
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 139 from 2022-02-10T14:44:41
So wait, I have to grieve and STILL have an eating disorder and ADHD and a hilarious narcissist mother? Surely I deserve a reprieve. On feelings of butthurtness and the lack of a pause function for...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 138 from 2022-02-09T14:39:10
My dad died last week and yesterday we had his funeral. This one is on grief.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 137 from 2021-05-13T21:58:27
There is a wonderful, abundant thing happening in my writing career and I’m finding myself resorting to false modesty and derisive, catastrophic talk when I discuss it with other people which is on...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 136 from 2021-05-06T18:23:43
The way I can also weaponize gentleness to isolate, restrict joy and keep my life small. And how it’s often a weird trick I use to indulge in workaholism and achievement addiction.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 135 from 2021-05-02T15:41:09
This is about my personal misconceptions around self-esteem. And how I confuse it with ego. And how collectivism and the immigrant experience as an Asian-American makes it really hard to know what ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 134 from 2021-05-01T14:49:29
This is about how all feelings are complicated. How most joyful things are bittersweet and how love is almost painful to hold in your body. I also talk about how leisure and pleasure isn’t modeled ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 133 from 2021-04-07T16:32:07
I am in Texas with my family and feelings loom large. This is about how perfectionism can afflict every moment and decision. And the contradictions inherent in loving a deeply flawed family in real...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 132 from 2021-03-27T12:53:37
I have been an author for four years as of this day. This is about how making art is teaching me how to receive love without feeling as though I owe everything back. This is about true abundance an...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 131 from 2021-03-23T16:48:53
A lot of people have been asking what can we do? What if the action you can take is small, self-serving, scary and ultimately entirely radical? What if instead of doing, what if, in this moment of ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 130 from 2021-03-22T14:41:53
Is being more of an asshole an antidote to non-confrontational Asianism and resentment? Maybe? But maybe not in the way you’d presume.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 128 from 2021-03-20T16:42:43
On the failings of Asian parents and how that makes us desperate to protect them.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 127 from 2021-03-19T14:45:12
This one is about the utility of feelings. And how feeling feelings can seem so pointless and how ripped off I felt yesterday about recovery and healing and therapy when all the work can still lead...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 126 from 2021-03-18T18:34:30
This is about being Asian in America on this day.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 125 from 2020-07-20T13:04:57
This is about codependency and the ways in which I thought I was passive, meek and overly accommodating when in fact I was in manipulating, controlling and playing the victim. This is GREAT news. I...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 124 from 2020-06-04T14:42:06
This is about optics and allyship. And this instinct to create a moral issue out of actions. It’s about virtue signaling and authenticity and how you are the only one who knows the tone with which ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 123 from 2020-05-28T16:55:04
Does good news around your career immediately make you panic and feel wretched despite also being aware that you better feel grateful because how dare you? This is about how professional anxiety an...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 121 from 2020-05-08T14:47:24
This is about how watching nature documentaries can get you out of dissociation and remind you that you are a living, breathing animal that has physical needs. And a gentle call to interrogate any ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 120 from 2020-04-24T16:50:10
This is about how my routine in the morning and evening are what’s holding me together in this time. Because my natural inclination is to abandon my body and the present moment whenever things get ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 119 from 2020-04-22T18:50:40
This is about stinginess. And how I’ve been noticing a parsimonious quality to what I’ll let myself enjoy during this lockdown time. Austerity measures are all around us and economic insecurity is ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 118 from 2020-04-20T22:55:40
TW: This one is about eating disorders. Specifically binge-eating. And how to invite some gentle mindfulness around meals during a time when food is loud for everyone.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 117 from 2020-04-19T20:32:06
This is about how it’s beautiful and sunny outside and how I can ruin my own mood so easily by being my neighborhood’s self-appointed hall monitor. It turns out that ruining your own mood does not ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 116 from 2020-04-18T15:30:01
This is about wanting to try on every tight-fitting pair of pants because I’m dissociative and I want to change the channel in my brain to create chaos. Basically it’s about weird highs or random s...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 115 from 2020-04-17T13:51:25
This about how creativity, in the time of a pandemic, is indifferent to agendas and ambition. And how to go slow, allow for receptivity and just trust that the work will take shape as long as you g...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 114 from 2020-04-10T21:41:26
This one is about petulance. And how tiny tantrums are distractions from fear and uncertainty that need to be processed. This is also about the small routines I put in place so that muscle memory c...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 113 from 2020-03-30T16:07:11
This one is about rehearsing tragedy and the illusion that it will prepare you for or even forestall sad things. It’s about superstitions around hyper vigilance and how you’re “allowed” to struggle...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 112 from 2020-03-25T16:12:59
This is about what it’s like to finish a contemporary YA novel set in New York when everything you’ve ever known has radically changed. This is about giving your work the blessing to be as it wants...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 111 from 2020-03-19T16:11:14
This is about our teammates during this global pandemic (partners, roommates, siblings, kids, parents). And how they are different from us. Their traumas, their stories, their personalities and nee...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 110 from 2020-03-17T16:35:52
Last night I was on a rampage to try to get home to NY from LA. This is a note that for me these urgent, all-consuming thoughts are futile attempts at control. There is what I want and there is wha...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 109 from 2020-03-17T01:20:46
A loving reminder not to lash out at the people around you who prevent you from completely dissociating. Reality is intolerable but they’re our lifelines not our anchors.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 108 from 2020-03-14T01:46:17
This is about how I am personally coping at the moment. And how this is a time to be patient and compassionate with yourself. And to try and not self abandon by checking in with people.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 107 from 2020-02-01T17:31:32
We’re only as sick as our secrets and sometimes our secrets are stories we tell ourselves that we don’t even know we’re telling ourselves. Here are some framing techniques and tools I use to suss t...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 106 from 2020-01-20T15:06:23
This one is about forcing yourself to work in a spirit of shame and punishment. And how even on deadline it can be vital to the quality of work to take real, restorative breaks.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 105 from 2020-01-16T23:58:10
This is about dread as it relates to projects you’ve abandoned and become scared of and how to lovingly return to them. And how mindfulness around small acts of sabotage can be enlightening about h...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 104 from 2019-11-29T15:29:15
This one is about how people-pleasing glosses over your true feelings. And that thinking of others before yourself can become a total resentment fireball.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 103 from 2019-10-26T14:00:19
This one is about contrary action. Sometimes the kindest, gentlest thing to do is nothing. Not picking up your addiction. Abstaining from the actions that lead to the headspace that causes cravings...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 102 from 2019-10-25T11:08:40
This is about how intuition doesn’t yell or chide or browbeat. And how to tell if the ideas you’re having are intuition or distraction or addiction.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 101 from 2019-10-08T02:18:18
This one is about how to handle options. About what to do when you have to make a decision and the stakes are high. It’s about how to choose without the obsession, sleepless number crunching and as...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 100 from 2019-09-28T18:30:50
This one is about gratitude. And exhaustion. It’s also about book tour and surrender around discomfort and neutrality around outcome.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 99 from 2019-09-02T20:17:47
This is about gratitude. And living in the moment of how cool and worthy your art is no matter the verdict.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 98 from 2019-08-17T16:50:10
Boundaries rule! This ep is about how to set boundaries within your self and the practice of dedicating a discrete hour in the day to take the most considered actions around a task that feels overw...
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Hey, Cool Job! Episode 97 from 2019-08-09T15:58:13
This is about not saying yes to no things. And giving yourself permission not to do the most.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 96 from 2019-08-01T14:26:09
This one is about how sometimes we may conflate fatigue with a moral issue. Like, I’m tired; WHAT DID I DO WRONG? And an invitation for gentleness when it comes to large-scale projects because perf...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 95 from 2019-07-26T14:38:34
This one is about indecision and ruminating. And how tiring inaction actually is. Plus, a simple decision tree I use when the anxiety is super confusing and I don’t know how best to use my time.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 94 from 2019-07-08T15:32:57
This is about non-reactivity around my parents in 100+ degree weather. And how the stories I tell myself are just stories (even if they are about old wounds.) And that for all my future tripping an...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 93 from 2019-07-05T17:18:39
Today is my one year birthday in recovery. And here are some thoughts about emotional homework, kindness to your internal creative spirit and holiday hangovers in whatever form they take. Have a ge...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 92 from 2019-07-03T16:47:28
Wherein I try to forgive myself for having fun even though it might not be “good” for me. And muddling through why I’m convinced I’ll be punished because these foolhardy acts MUST be self sabotage....
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 91 from 2019-06-27T19:50:12
“If you weren’t worried about it, would it even be a problem?” This is about how the brain, as an awesome and creative defense mechanism, likes to believe that it can “solve” the future through rum...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 90 from 2019-06-25T15:00:51
Fear has no arms and legs. It’s only when it compels you to action or inaction that it can truly bite you. This is for those days that you feel entitled to things you can’t seem to find—wisdom, ins...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 89 from 2019-06-19T15:50:01
This is about those days where you build little belief systems around every action. Where you think there’s a right and wrong answer to everything from what you eat to the order in which you do thi...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 88 from 2019-06-18T21:47:42
Do you ever get confused when the work that is fluid and loose and maybe even a little easy isn’t the work that you intended to make? This is about how the work that comes most naturally may not be...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 87 from 2019-05-29T13:09:40
This episode is about competitive spirituality and cataclysmic thinking around recovery. And how “vague dressing” helps me get out the door on summer days when there’s too much pressure to be #Fash...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 86 from 2019-05-23T12:59:45
This is about indecision, how you can feel dread around the right decision for you, and being superstitious about the “right” way to do creative work because of the seductive nature of the muse nar...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 85 from 2019-05-20T14:16
Okay, so you might be a perfectionist even if you’re messy and slightly lazy. But you also might be emotionally immature as a person who was considered precocious since forever. This is about how t...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 84 from 2019-05-13T12:55:09
It’s dreary some mornings and you may be in your feelings and that’s okay. This is just a gentle reminder that feelings are not facts and that your version of a story can become more neutral and le...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 83 from 2019-05-08T13:03:13
This is about that negative headspace. Where you feel like you’re in the upside down or a sunken place of your own making because you regret a decision about work or where you elected to be. This i...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 82 from 2019-05-06T13:50:52
How I prepare for overwhelmingly exciting, challenging and vulnerable events as an anxious introvert. (Aka: Book promo is a gift and a curse)
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 81 from 2019-05-01T21:05:27
This is about bad days. Where you feel like you’re doing all the work and yet you still get walloped by large overwhelming feelings of shame and pain. Days where all you can do is find solace in im...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 80 from 2019-04-24T14:36:35
What do you allow yourself to want? And is it limited by the shame in admitting what you may not achieve? Or are your delusions of grandeur and magical thinking clouding the things you can truly wo...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 79 from 2019-04-22T15:13:09
Addictions as parasitic organisms that have a strong biological imperative to survive. And how it’s surprising what materials they’ll use as fuel.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 78 from 2019-04-18T14:49:30
Is Instagram a necessary tool to keep abreast of your industry or is it a din by which you muddy your own voice and vision?
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 77 from 2019-04-16T14:08:53
Are you a sleeper perfectionist? To where you’re not Type A but you get discouraged and abandon things if they’re not exactly what you’d hoped?
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 76 from 2019-04-15T14:46:16
This one is about seeking help for abusing work as my eating disorder gets quieter.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 75 from 2019-04-12T13:23:43
Deadlines, taxes, skirmishes with reality. This is a small prayer for a tough week.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 74 from 2019-04-05T14:36:40
Phone calls chapter 2! Why we have to have them. Why you can’t fail at them. And how to get out of the obsession that the other person is judging you.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 73 from 2019-04-04T14:24:29
Phone calls! Chapter 1: How to endure the performance anxiety and the dread of that pop quiz feeling. And what to do!
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 72 from 2019-04-03T13:21:01
Are you waiting for permission to do something? Is your answer no but your actions and beliefs say otherwise?
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 71 from 2019-04-02T14:37:46
What if there’s no getting “better” at anything? Will you be free or will you bug out?
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 70 from 2019-04-01T14:43:37
Warmer, warmer, colder, colder. A tiny, extremely useful exercise to locate your intuition in all situations.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 69 from 2019-03-30T13:55:19
More on deadlines. And how there isn’t one when it comes to wellness. Even if you’re impatient and it feels like your calendar/press/everyone else says, “optimize now or die.”
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 68 from 2019-03-29T02:17:38
How calendar alerts don’t work for me except to cause panic about impending deadlines. But how blocking out appointments to do the work in my calendar makes me feel safe. More SUPER obvious stuff t...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 67. from 2019-03-27T01:59:29
More on money. Pay freelancers $200 every time you “pick their brain.” It inspires everyone to prepare for the meeting in an appropriate way and invites clarity and zero resentment around expectati...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 66; 3/25/19 from 2019-03-26T03:04:53
Hey, Cool Life! is a #minipod about mental health and creativity from author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 66 is about emerging from addiction and realizing you’ve been living in administrative squalor y...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 65 from 2019-03-23T04:03:11
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micopod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 65 is about why anyone in their right mind would be sober if they’re no...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 64 from 2019-03-22T03:51:06
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #minipod about mental health and creativity. Episode 64 is about how to be sober when New York is New Yorking all over you in the best, most exciting and slightly terrifying way.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 63 from 2019-03-21T02:42:10
Hey, Cool Life! Is a minipod from New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 63 is about how to remove the value judgment in people not liking you.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 62 from 2019-03-20T02:07:28
Hey, Cool Life! Is a minipod by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 62 is how friendships change when you get sober and become mindful. And how rehearsing “concern troll” spee...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 61; 3/18/19 from 2019-03-18T16:18:03
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 61 is about time. And how unilateral decisions about how long you thin...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 60; 3/16/19 from 2019-03-16T16:00
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 60 is about the anxiety cycle of knowing that you don’t know and attem...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 59; 3/15/19 from 2019-03-15T17:04:20
Hey, Cool Life! Is a micropod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 59 is about the mental toll and physical expense of people pleasing.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 58; 3/12/19 from 2019-03-12T16:41:54
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 58 is about surrender around your appearance as a person with food addiction and body dysmorphia.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 57; 3/9/19 from 2019-03-09T17:07:20
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 57 is about how worrying can ramp up when it’s time to rest. And how anxiety can roll over from t...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 56; 3/6/19 from 2019-03-06T19:31:01
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 56 is about how not to take rejection personally.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 55; 3/5/19 from 2019-03-05T19:09:12
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 55 is about what to do on the days you wake up gaslighting yourself into believing that you’re healed/recovered/normal/all...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 54; 3/4/19 from 2019-03-04T16:48:01
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 54 is the depression and self-judgement that accompanies a day where you don’t make something.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 53; 3/1/19 from 2019-03-01T18:14:01
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 53 is about how punitive we can be to ourselves for our anxiety and depression and how subconsciously se...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 52; 2/27/19. from 2019-02-27T20:19:41
Hey, Cool Life is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 52 is about medication, depression, anxiety and intervention. And how mindfulness and gentleness cannot d...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 51; 2/26/19 from 2019-02-26T23:46:58
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 51 is about the wellness industrial complex and the zeitgeisting of mental health awareness. And how pay...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 50; 2/25/19 from 2019-02-25T19:03:50
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 50 is about how meditation strengthens the muscle that resists fuckshit and addictive distractions. And ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 49; 2/24/19 from 2019-02-25T01:19:40
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 49 is about sobriety in recovery for other addictions. And the simplest way to decide whether or not a w...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 48; 2/23/19 from 2019-02-23T18:50:12
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 48 is about how gentleness and surrender around large projects improve overall perspective and quality. ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 47; 2/21/19 from 2019-02-21T18:00:22
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 47 is about self-perception, Karl Lagerfeld and **trigger warning for eating disorders: the most viscera...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 46; 2/20/19 from 2019-02-20T16:55:51
Hey, Cool Life is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 46 is about the futility of rehearsing confrontation and the delusions that compel you rage-quit jobs and...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 45; 2/19/19 from 2019-02-19T19:09:05
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 45 is about acknowledging mistakes as you collect data about yourself. And how repeated mistakes is data...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 44; 2/18/19 from 2019-02-18T17:44:02
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 44 is about how to have faith in the process to minimize indecision. And reframing failure as a construct.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 43; 2/17/19 from 2019-02-17T19:19:25
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 43 is how the same material that fuels your imagination, ingenuity and intelligence also fuels your addi...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 42; 2/15/19 from 2019-02-15T21:38:30
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 42 is about managing big news days, the only things you can control when life gets large and what won’t ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 41; 2/14/19 from 2019-02-14T16:50:08
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod on mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 41 is about love and the addict’s brain. Non-transactive love, the love of strangers and how giving love ma...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 40; 2/13/19 from 2019-02-13T17:09:25
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 40 is about living in the past as it relates to large, time-consuming work and the anxiety of living in ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 39; 2/11/19 from 2019-02-11T17:17:11
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 38 is about recovery and evolving friendships, how creating new work can be the only way you learn to ap...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 38; 2/10/19 from 2019-02-11T01:15:19
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 38 is about trying to find gentleness at the beginning of your career, how getting better and getting bi...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 37; 2/8/19 from 2019-02-08T17:33:48
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 37 is about body dysmorphia and how to cope when it’s intolerable to be inside your body.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 36; 2/7/19 from 2019-02-07T20:01:49
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 36 is about how emotionally expensive your recovery can be for your loved ones and how that isn’t a valu...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 35; 2/6/19 from 2019-02-06T17:26:38
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 35 is about how and why taking dream-adjacent jobs can be soul crushing.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 34; 2/5/19 from 2019-02-06T01:43:19
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 34 is about how goal-oriented creativity can hogtie experimentation and make you risk-averse in your work.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 33; 2/4/19 from 2019-02-05T01:07:39
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 33 is about explicitly granting yourself permission to never be Instagram famous and behaving accordingly.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 32; 2/3/19 from 2019-02-03T17:41:36
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 32 is about not focusing on “sunk costs” in new work, the discomfort of experimenting in unfamiliar media and the magic of...
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Hey, Cool Life Episode 31; 2/1/19 from 2019-02-01T16:50:02
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 31 is about identifying your addiction.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 30; 1/31/19 from 2019-01-31T18:24:13
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 30 is about what to do in anxiety-inducting situations.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 29; 1/30/19 from 2019-01-30T17:20:54
Hey, Cool Life! Episode 29 is about how to ask for advice effectively and how to give advice in a gentle way.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 28; 1/29/19. from 2019-01-29T17:47:38
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 28 is about intuition and how it feels and sounds nothing like I thought it would.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 27; 1/28/19 from 2019-01-28T18:17:52
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 27 is about worrying.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 26; 1/27/19 from 2019-01-27T16:46:59
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 26 is about daily practices, patience and being your own audience.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 25; 1/26/19 from 2019-01-26T16:34:37
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 25 is about resentments and the crucial data you collect when you stand up for yourself.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 24; 1/25/19 from 2019-01-25T17:15:21
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 24 is about the freedom of longhand drafting for books and scripts. And the joy of muting your ...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 23; 1/24/19 from 2019-01-24T16:44:35
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 23 is about self-harming to self-soothe, mindfulness around physical pain and suspending negative thought in the moment.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 22; 1/23/19 from 2019-01-23T14:15:02
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 22 is about the gentlest, most effective way of getting out of your head. Also, friendship.
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Hey, Cool Life episode 1; 1/2/19 from 2019-01-23T00:44:03
This is a new thing. I’m still figuring it out. Thank you.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 21; 1/22/19 from 2019-01-22T15:02:39
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 21 is about taking input days to nourish output days, “feed brain” and taking time to appreciate the work of friends.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 20; 1/21/19. from 2019-01-21T15:13:39
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 20 is about becoming a reclusive creative and the imposter syndrome around it. And how not responding to emails is a small...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 19; 1/20/19 from 2019-01-20T14:42:58
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 19 is about how false deadlines can stymie the waviness of first drafts.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 18; 1/19/19 from 2019-01-19T14:10:54
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 18 is about scheduling weekends so you don’t get sad, another reminder not to be late for leisu...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 17; 1/18/19 from 2019-01-18T13:57:03
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. This one is about mono-tasking.
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Hey, Cool Job! Episode 16;1/17/19 from 2019-01-17T14:19:24
Hey, Cool Job! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. This one is about eating disorders.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 15; 1/16/19 from 2019-01-16T14:43:46
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 14; 1/15/19 from 2019-01-15T14:23:46
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. This one is about naming your fear and processing large emotions.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 13; 1/14/19 from 2019-01-14T15:02:41
Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. This one is about the day after a lapse and how to stay faithful to an idea you’re working on.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 12; 1/13/19 from 2019-01-13T16:48:35
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. This one is about emotional hangovers, harm reduction and communication barriers between me and my family.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 11; 1/12/19 from 2019-01-12T11:20:16
Hey, Cool Life is a #micropod about mental health and anxiety. This one’s about asking for help and intimacy amongst friends.
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Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. from 2019-01-11T16:09:58
This one is about visions of my self that live in my head. Some are helpful and some are not.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 8; 1/9/19 from 2019-01-09T14:50:49
This one is about how “today is just a datapoint” and how to view time so you don’t get overwhelmed working on your craft. Basically, a thing I do not to be terrified of writing.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 7; 1/8/19 from 2019-01-08T15:01:24
Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. It’s recorded every day by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 7 is about what to do about “rehearsal brain.”
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 6; 1/7/19 from 2019-01-07T15:35:16
Hey, Cool Life! is a micropod about mental health and creativity. In this, I talk about acceptance, exhaustion and Anne Helen Petersen’s excellent essay on burnout. How Millennials Became The Burno...
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 5; 1/6/19 from 2019-01-06T16:10:10
Hey, Cool Life! Is a micropod on mental health and creativity. This one is about saying no.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 4; 1/5/19 from 2019-01-05T15:56:58
This is a micropod about mental health and creativity. In this episode I talk about gentleness and empathy for your future self.
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 3; 1/4/19 from 2019-01-04T15:34:34
I talk about a writing practice that helps me cope with anxiety x
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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 2; 1/3/19 from 2019-01-03T16:07:24
This is a daily micropod about mental health and creativity. It will grow and change.
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