PODCAST · society
We Can't Do It Alone
by Nōn Wels
We Can’t Do It Alone is a podcast about the helpers—the humans who’ve come in and out of our lives and have played a role in who we are today. The teacher who fostered our love for reading. The partner who provided us with safety. The stranger who listened. The coach who believed in us when we didn’t. The friend who changed our mind. The dog who rescued us. This show is a reminder that helping is who we are. It’s a part of us. It’s what makes this life beautiful. We’re shaped by the help we receive, and the help we give. Help comes in many forms, and it’s not always obvious. Every so often, time has to pass before we can see how we’ve been helped. Sometimes we take the help for granted. Other times help is just a passing moment. In a world that obsessively valorizes individual strength, We Can’t Do It Alone celebrates why we’re truly here: the helpers. Each of us. Our collective. However large, no matter how small, and everything in between. A
Episodes
-
We Only Know What We Know (with Jessica aka my life pal)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Jessica, his best friend and life partner, to explore the difference between helping mode and solving mode, our commitment to trying to understand each other through our diagnoses, being stuck in shame spirals, slowing down enough to...
-
Finding My Worth Beyond Soccer (with Ali Riley)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Ali Riley, four-time Olympian soccer player and co-author of Girls Gone Veg, to explore Ali's early retirement and the grief and self-acceptance wrapped up in that, the continued fight for equality and inclusivity in sports, why allowing...
-
Constricting Mind, Expanding Heart (with Katya Lidsky)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Katya Lidsky, author of Be Your Dog's Best Friend, to explore the entanglement of grief and anger, how intent and impact play a crucial in how we help, giving kids space to be mad at their parents, eating disorder recovery and the...
-
Perspective of Hope (with Bernie Dickson)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Bernie Dickson, artist and ultra runner, to explore how we can create space for people in our lives to ask "why," growing up in an warm and inviting open-door household, the vulnerability of opening up your home to people, AI and its...
-
You Being You Is the Gift (with Cynthia Alonzo Perez)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Cynthia Alonzo Perez, author of My Marianismo and founder of Rooted In Reflection, to explore what's it been like to move her family to Mexico, the joy of being in relationship with peace protectors, the three houses framework, a...
-
Life After Ambition (with Amil Niazi)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Amil Niazi, author of The Cut's parenting series "The Hard Part", to explore why it's important to allow your kids to see and understand your change, the vulnerability of dogs, giving each other more space and grace to be human, why…
more -
The Future of Family (with Sophie Lucido Johnson)
Welcome to season 3! On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Sophie Lucido Johnson, author and New Yorker cartoonist, to explore why vulnerability is both essential and precious, why we perform when we first meet someone, honoring friend chapters with love and grief, saying "I...
-
Body, Heart, Screams (with Sinead Farrelly)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Sinead Farrelly, National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) champion, World Cup footballer for Ireland, scream enthusiast, and most importantly, a human, to explore the feeling of being cut off from yourself inside the competitive, intense...
-
Deep Listening Magic (with Emely Rumble)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with biblio, poetry and hip hop therapist, creator of the Readers Who Run with the Wolves book club, and author of Bibliotherapy In the Bronx, Emely Rumble LCISW, to explore Emely's childhood being raised by her grandmother and the books that...
-
To See and Be Seen In Friendship (with Lane Moore)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with podcaster (I Thought It Was Just Me), creator of Tinder Live, musician (Final Girl out now!), and You Will Find Your People author Lane Moore to explore the feeling of not wanting to talk about our mental health because we're tired of...
-
Inherent Poetry Of Wilderness (with Alex Wild)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with nature nerd, rock climber, and National Parks Service ranger Alex Wild to explore the ups and downs of Alex's firing and then rehiring by way of ridiculous Elon Musk's ridiculous DOGE cuts, how the empathetic and impassioned response…
more -
Capacity Of the Big-Hearted (with Dr. Jennifer Mullan)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with best-selling author, scholar-activist, ancestral medium, podcaster (From Root to Bone), and founder of Decolonizing Therapy, Dr. Jennifer Mullan to explore the feeling of being held, what it's like for Dr. Jenn to ask for help as a woman...
-
Generational Love and Liberation (with Whitney Alese)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with writer, podcaster, NAACP honoree, and The Woke Mama herself, Whitney Alese, to explore how many things can be true at once, seeing possibility through the eyes of the people we love and look up to, why we're both into real feelings over...
-
Learning How to Ask for Help (with Craig Dickson)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with friend, father, and recently graduated social worker Craig Dickson to explore how we're shaped by listening to people's stories, Craig's experience being a dad to two kids who live with autism spectrum disorder and how his kids help him...
-
All Issues Are Disability Justice Issues (with Mary Fashik)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with disability justice activist, founder of the Upgrade Accessibility movement, award-winning podcaster (The Politics of Disability), and author of Adventurous Adeline, Mary Fashik, to explore what it feels like for Mary, as someone who is...
-
Identity Quakes and Collective Risk (with Michelle MiJung Kim)
On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with social justice activist, award-winning author of The Wake Up, and podcaster (I Feel That Way Too) Michelle MiJung Kim to explore how to be human with each other, the beauty of resilient relationships, Michelle's identity quakes, how we…
more -
Welcome to Season 2: Individualist Scum, Collectivist Hope
To kick off season 2 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn introduces this season by getting a lil spicy and exploring today's rampant individualism and why community, and the helpers, are our resistance. How you can support Nōn and this independently-run podcast: Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly…
more -
We're Mirrors for Each Other (with Sophie Ansari)
On episode 9 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with illustrator, video creator and podcaster, Sophie Ansari (Podcrushed) to explore the culture of curiosity in the Bahá'í faith, having a life partner who is open to learning, naughty things we did as teenagers and being a hopeful teenager…
more -
Working Hard and Being Kind (with Daniel Van Kirk)
On episode 8 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with comedian, actor and writer Daniel Van Kirk to explore human adaptability, why helping is an unspoken part of a single-parent home, the importance of celebrating while we're still in it, and why working hard and being kind gets you the…
more -
Our Capacity Is Rekindled By Community (with Ess Crossley)
On episode 7 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Ess Crossley (he/they) to explore our new project The Feely Cards (out October 22*), how helping sometimes looks like people educating us even if it feels uncomfortable, Ess's transformation from their "women phase" to their beautiful...
-
The Joy and Liberation In Drag (with Eric Dorsa)
On episode 6 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Eric Dorsa to talk about their experience as a queer person in recovery (eating disorder, substance), how we silence or diminish parts of ourselves when things are disordered, what it's like to reclaim space in a world where you've felt...
-
Bookstores Are the Heart of Community (with Sam Robertson)
On episode 5 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Sam Robertson to explore the ripple effect of helping, why reading is the best way to strengthen your empathy muscles, why stories are the core of humanity, Sam's experience as an owner of an independent bookshop, and why bookstores are the...
-
The Life-Saving Helper You've Never Met (with Bill Cole)
On episode 4 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Bill Cole to explore coming of age during the AIDS crisis, queer representation in film, the particularly heinous stigma around AIDS, how someone you've never met can be a helper, and the lasting legacy of AIDS activist icon, Stephen…
more -
Feeling Seen As a Little Queer Kid (with Zee Zelinski)
On episode 3 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with 20-something neurodivergent queer disabled writer, Zee Zelinski, to explore why we're mosaics of everything and everyone we've ever interacted with, the particular grief of help and helping as a disabled person, gender identity, feeling…
more -
I Am Yours and You Are Mine (with Frederick Joseph)
On episode 2 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with NY Times bestselling author Frederick Joseph to explore the craft and respite of writing poetry, Black boys and men being whole beings capable of being strong and soft, collective liberation, and how we feel collective care should look…
more -
Letting People In (with Giselle Vriesen)
On episode 1 of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with Giselle Vriesen to explore being a first-time author, forgetting oneself in pursuit of creating, holding the darkness and the light, and letting people in to allow them to help us. Giselle is the author of Why We Play With Fire, a...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
We Can’t Do It Alone is a podcast about the helpers—the humans who’ve come in and out of our lives and have played a role in who we are today.
The teacher who fostered our love for reading. The partner who provided us with safety. The stranger who listened. The coach who believed in us when we didn’t. The friend who changed our mind. The dog who rescued us.
This show is a reminder that helping is who we are. It’s a part of us. It’s what makes this life beautiful. We’re shaped by the help we receive, and the help we give. Help comes in many forms, and it’s not always obvious. Every so often, time has to pass before we can see how we’ve been helped. Sometimes we take the help for granted. Other times help is just a passing moment.
In a world that obsessively valorizes individual strength, We Can’t Do It Alone celebrates why we’re truly here: the helpers. Each of us. Our collective. However large, no matter how small, and everything in between. A
HOSTED BY
Nōn Wels
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does We Can't Do It Alone have?
We Can't Do It Alone currently has 26 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is We Can't Do It Alone about?
We Can’t Do It Alone is a podcast about the helpers—the humans who’ve come in and out of our lives and have played a role in who we are today. The teacher who fostered our love for reading. The partner who provided us with safety. The stranger who listened. The coach who believed in us when we...
How often does We Can't Do It Alone release new episodes?
We Can't Do It Alone has 26 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to We Can't Do It Alone?
You can listen to We Can't Do It Alone on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts We Can't Do It Alone?
We Can't Do It Alone is created and hosted by Nōn Wels.
URL copied to clipboard!