All Episodes

How To! | Our Favorite Advice of 2025

How To! | Create ‘Marriage Rules’ as a Couple

How To! | Stop Fawning

How To! | Sing in Front of Other People

How To! | Give to a Good Cause—and Make It Count

How To! | Take Charge of Home Repair (with Sam Sanders and Mercury Stardust)

Care & Feeding | When a Good Idea Turns Into a Fail

How To! | Talk to Contractors (With Sam Sanders and Mercury Stardust)

How To! | Stop Snoring

How To! | Survive Getting Fired

How To! | Raise a Boy

How To! | Quit IVF (and Start a New Chapter)

Care & Feeding | What to Say to Your Kids When You Can’t Deal

Care & Feeding | Demystifying Car Seat Safety

Care & Feeding | The 25 Best Picture Books of the Last 25 Years

Care & Feeding | Guiding Kids Through Hard-to-Explain Headlines

How To! | Use Hypnosis

Care & Feeding | How to Talk Divorce With Kids

How To! | Quit Your Dream Job

Care & Feeding | The Back-to-School Game Plan

Care & Feeding | How to Help a Kid Stop Thumb-Sucking

How To! | Host With Ease

Care & Feeding | From How To! | How To Raise a Kid in a Polarized Family

Care & Feeding | Extra Parenting, Extra Guilt

How To! | Be a Better Coach (Encore)

Care & Feeding | The Secret to Becoming the Hangout House

Care & Feeding | When Your Kid Hates Mornings

How To! | Declutter Your Digital Life

How To! | Raise a Kid in a Polarized Family

How To! | Let Go of ADHD Shame

How To! | Gossip for Good

Care & Feeding | Preparing Kids for the Worst (Without Freaking Them Out)

How To! | Be an Ethical Hater

Care & Feeding | My Only Child Wants a Sibling. What Now?

Care & Feeding | Is My Kid Ready for Middle School? Am I?

How To! | Get Sweet, Sweet Revenge

Care & Feeding | When Your Kids Can’t Eat the Same Thing

Care & Feeding | When Your Teen Thinks They're the Parent

How To! | Stop Giving 110%

How To! | Start Reading Books Again (Encore)

How To! | Balance Mind, Body—and iPhone

How To! | Draw Outside the Lines

I Need My Best Friend to Give Me Some Space. Help!

Are My Friends Becoming Doomsday Preppers? Help!

How To! | Repair Your Stuff

Politics Is Ruining My Family. Help!

How To! | Discover Your Kink

My Wife Uses Bacon Grease As Lotion. Help!

How To! | Get a Great Haircut

I Look Just Like My Boyfriend’s Dead Wife. Help!

My Best Friends Hate Each Other. Help!

Living at Odds | 4. A Quiet Fight for LGBTQ Rights

We All Hate My Sister’s Husband. Help!

Living at Odds | 3. Making Amends for Ancestors

My Wife’s Kids Sleep In Our Bed. I Hate It. Help!

Living at Odds | 2. An Education in Opposition

My Controlling Fiancé Says He Loves Me. Help!

Living at Odds | 1. Two Partisans, One Corner

My Mom, An Alcoholic, Is Traveling Solo. Help!

How To! | Replace Your Tesla

I Want To Go No-Contact With My Parents. Help!

I Love My Sister But I Don’t Like Her. Help!

How To! | Discover Music You’ll Love

I Don’t Like Being My Coworker’s Therapist. Help!

Supercommunicators | 3. How to Have the Hardest Conversations

How To! | Lose Your ‘Virginity’ at 43

Was I The Problem In My Marriage? Help!

How To! | Interview Someone

Supercommunicators | 2. How to Communicate Without Words

My Mom is Self-Centered. Am I, Too? Help!

How To! | Protect Your Parents From Fraud

Supercommunicators | 1. How to Talk to Anyone

My Husband’s Family Needs So Much Of His Money. Help!

How To! | Outsmart Your Student Loans

I Have Enough Friends and Don’t Want More. Help!

How To! | Have the Best Sex of Your Life (Encore)

My Husband’s a Slob and I Want Out. Help!

How To! | Rebuild Your Life After a Wildfire

I Hate Getting Gifts. My Spouse Doesn’t Get It. Help!

How To! | Set Limits With an Ex

My Mom Thinks My Husband Is Abusive. He’s Not. Help!

How To! | Harness Your Citizen Superpowers

My Stepdaughter Is Ruining My House. Help!

How To! | Switch Careers in Midlife

My Mom’s Freaking Out Over My Gender Identity

How To! | Become an Expat

My Husband’s a Nurse… and an Alcoholic. Help!

How To! | Talk Politics With Your Dad (Without Yelling) Pt 2 - Encore

Dear Prudence Encore | A DNA Test Revealed a Secret Sibling. Help!

How To! | Talk Politics With Your Dad (Without Yelling) Pt 1 - Encore

I Feel Like The Grinch. Help!

How To! | Our Favorite Advice of 2024

I Came Out. Now My Mean Sister’s an Ally. Help!

How To! | Exorcise Your Fitness Demons

My Stepson is a Liar and Attention Seeker. Help!

How To! | Plan an Estate (Before It’s Too Late)

Encore: I Am Swamped With Plans and I Hate It. Help!

More Than Hot Flashes: Breaking the Silence on Menopause

How To! | Throw a Party They’ll Remember (Encore)

We Bought A House. Now He Won’t Marry Me. Help!

Creating an Exercise Routine That’s Right for You

How To!: Face the Future (Gen Z Edition)

I Can’t Afford To Support My Girlfriend Anymore. Help!

Well, Now: Being a “Likeable Badass” Could Improve Your Health

How To!: Man Up About Male Birth Control

Care & Feeding: Tom and Jerry Toddlers

Dear Prudence: I’m Sick of Hearing My Friend Cry About Her Job. Help!

Care and Feeding: Letters on Politics, Halloween, and the Impala

How To!: Lead Your Local Nonprofit

My Wife Won’t Stop Correcting My Grammar. Help!

How To!: Face Your Fear of Dying (Encore)

My Husband Wants More Sympathy Than I Can Give. Help!

How To!: Cope With Forever Parenting

I Love My Family. My Husband Doesn’t. Help!

How To!: Be Less Judgy

I Spread A Rumor That Alienated My Friends and Mentor. Help!

Are Supplements Actually Worth It?

How To!: Stop Killing Your Plants

My Widowed Dad Is Now The “Other Woman.” Help!

How To!: Care for an Aging Parent

My Friend Keeps Disappearing and it Hurts! Help!

The Truth About IUDs

How To!: Grow Your Podcast

I Didn’t Wish My Sister a Happy Birthday—Now She’s Pissed! Help!

How To!: Rethink Screen Time

My Wife Thinks I Had an Emotional Affair With My Best Friend. Help!

What Drag Queens Can Teach Us About Healthcare

How To!: Cook at Home Like Sohla El-Waylly

An Artist’s Guide to ADHD and Getting Stuff Done

I Found My Happily Married Mom’s Profile on a BDSM Dating Site. Help!

How To!: Fall Out of Love (Encore)

I’m Dating My Former Professor and It’s Affecting My Relationship With My Sisters. Help!

How to Reclaim Your Life After a Health Crisis

My Husband and I Divorced Amicably. Nine Months Later, He Wants Me Back. Help!

How To!: Do Housework (and Not Hate It)

Politics Is Ruining My Family. Help!

Working Overtime: Surviving the Book Release Process

How To!: Put a Toxic Job Behind You

My Friend Told Our Friend Group That My Boyfriend Sexually Assaulted Me. He Didn’t. Help!

How to Avoid Heat-Related Illness

How To!: Be Funny (5th Anniversary Edition)

My Brother-In-Law’s Girlfriend Wore A Transparent Dress To My Wedding. Help!

Working Overtime: Revisiting Your Resolutions

Gut Check: How to Master Your Microbiome

Outward: Can you love the bigotry away? Queer Advice with Mathew Rodriguez

My BFF Bullied Her Husband Into Allowing Her to Sleep With Other Men. Help!

How To!: Take a Sabbatical

How’s Your Sex Life?: How Do I Get Over My Ex? with Brandon Kyle Goodman

How To!: Survive a Shark Attack (Encore)

My In-Laws Disrespected My Daughter, So I Kicked Them Out. Help!

Working Overtime: How to Get Back into Books

Revisiting Advice from Dr. Orna Guralnik

Meet Gwyneth Paltrow’s Mold Guy

How To!: Start Strength Training

I’m Sick of Feeling Like I’m Always the One Doing All The Work in Dating. Help!

Working Overtime: Storing and Revisiting Your Old Ideas

Doctors Agree: Obesity is a Disease. The Public Needs to Catch Up.

I Bailed on a Family Trip Because My Plane Seat Didn’t Have Enough Legroom—Am I a Monster? Help!

Working Overtime: Money Advice for Freelancers

I’m 39 and in Love With a 67-year-old. I’m Concerned About Judgment From Others. Help!

Working Overtime: When Life Gets in the Way

Well, Now: How Doulas Make Childbirth Safer For Everyone

How To!: Take a Gap Year

My Nonreligious Boyfriend Is Meeting My Ultra-Religious Parents. Help!

How To!: Confront a Vindictive Neighbor with Tig Notaro (Encore)

Working Overtime: Keeping the Faith

How To!: Handle Feedback at Work

I’m Queer and Here—Just Not to My Parents. Help!

My Brother Is a Budding Alex Jones. Help!

Working Overtime: Staying Accountable To Yourself

How a Former Surgeon General Took on a $5,000 ER Bill

How To!: Find Your People After a Mental Health Diagnosis

How To!: ‘Do the Work’ of Racial Justice

I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

Well, Now: Most Skincare Products are BS. Here Are the Facts.

How To!: Bring a Big Idea to Life

From Choice Words: Live in Fear or Love? (with Karamo)

Working Overtime: Creator Mode vs. Editor Mode

Spring Cleaning Your Medicine Cabinet

How To!: Crack Up Your Coworkers (Encore)

My Parents Are Flaunting Their Wealth While I’m Drowning in Debt. Help!

Working Overtime: Finding Your Why

How To!: Help a Loved One With Dementia

Working Overtime: Getting Paid On Time

Am I a Bad Father If I Don't Want to Acknowledge My Kid Publicly? Help!

How To!: Let Go of a Friendship

My Friend Has a Master’s Degree in Lying. Help!

How Do I Get Over Someone I Never Dated? Help!

How To!: Find Friends in Unexpected Places

Is My Work Husband Keeping Me A Secret From His Wife? Help!

Working Overtime: Managing New Hires Better

How To!: Plan Your Next Adventure

Am I a Bigot If I Don’t Want to Date Foreigners? Help!

How To!: Be Free of Body Shame

Working Overtime: Breaking Stubborn Habits

I Spend Hours a Day Having Intense Romantic Daydreams. Help!

A DNA Test Revealed a Secret Sibling. Help!

Working Overtime: Harnessing All Five Senses

How To!: Keep Caring Amid Endless Crises

I Don’t Want to Cancel My Retirement Plans to Babysit. Help!

Outward: We’re Here, We’re Queer, Here’s Some Advice!

Working Overtime: Lightening Your Workload

My Mother-In-Law Doesn’t Wash Her Hands After Using The Bathroom. Help!

How To! Our Favorite Advice of 2023

I Rejected A Friend’s Sexual Advance—Now He’s Being Weird. Help!

Working Overtime: Be Good to Your Body

How To!: Transition From Soldier to Civilian

My Friend Won’t Stop Buying Me Gifts. Help!

How To!: Carve Out Creative Time

How To!: Grieve an Estranged Parent

How To!; Talk Politics Without Wrecking Relationships (Encore)

My Family Won't Let Me Host for the Holidays. Help!

Mom & Dad: The World Is Messy and Ugly. Do My Kids Need to Know?

Working Overtime: Escape Your Creative Comfort Zone

How To!: Get Through Menopause

My Coworker Keeps Kissing Me on the Cheek. Help!

My Friend Tried to Bring Her Kids to A Winery. Help!

Working Overtime: Freelance Work's Boom and Bust Cycle

Working Overtime: Finding the Confidence to Create

How To!: Build Trust With Co-Workers

Is It Too Early in the Relationship to Say "I Love You"? Help!

How To!: Find Love Where You Least Expect It

Working Overtime: How to Absorb Art More Deeply

How To!: Get Out of Debt Faster Than You Think (Encore)

Should I Donate Sperm To My Ex? Help!

How To!: Say Goodbye to Your Pet

I Don't Want My Dad to Give Me Away at My Wedding. Help!

Working Overtime: Creating Like a Child

How To!: Follow Your Small Business Dream

How To!: Learn Any Language Fast

Dear Prudence: My Sister Is Lying to My Nephews About Their Father's Identity. Help!

Working Overtime: Learning From Bad Art

How To!: How To Find Your People

Relationship Podcasts Are Ruining My Friend's Life. Help!

How To!: Navigate Adult Autism

My Wife Goes Braless Around Our Teenage Sons. Help!

Working Overtime: Why Artists Should Attend Festivals

How To!: Fill an Empty Nest (Encore)

I Told My Husband I May Have Postpartum Depression—He Did Nothing. Help!

How To!: Live Anywhere in the World

Mom & Dad: Your Eyeballs Are Gonna Fall Out of Your Head

My Co-Worker Won’t Stop Sending Me Friend Requests Online. Help!

How To!: Show Up For a Friend With Cancer

Dear Prudence: My Boyfriend Hid His Hobby From Me—Civil War Reenactments. Help!

How To!: Deal With a Difficult Parent

How Do I Disclose to My Kids That I've Had an Abortion–Twice? Help!

How To!: Make Aging Easier for Everyone

My Friends Got Me a Terrible Birthday Gift. Help!

Big Mood, Little Mood: Anxious Surrogate

I Hate My Fiancé’s Mustache—but He Refuses to Get Rid of It. Help!

A Co-Worker I Dated is Spreading Rumors About Our Breakup. Help!

How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up With a Friend? Help!

How To!: Find the Gems in All Your Junk

I Tested My Partner’s Parenting Readiness and He’s Upset. Help!

How To!: Quit Your Calling

I Think My Husband Is Quiet Quitting Our Marriage. Help!

How To!: Help Teachers Thrive

I Think My Wife Is Cheating On Me—With A Robot. Help!

I Saved My Neighbor’s Life And Now She Won't Leave Me Alone. Help!

How To!: Sleep Like a Champ

I Think My Dad Is Cheating On My Mom. Help!

How To!: Deliver Bad News Better

My Co-Worker Repeatedly Ignores My Boundaries. Help!

Should I Travel Across the World With My Ex? Help!

How To!: Raise Kids in a Nation Full of Guns

I Was Only “Verbally” Invited to a Wedding. Help!

How To!: Face the AI Revolution

My Close Friend Is Spiraling And I Live Far Away. Help!

A Word: The Color of Money

Dear Prudence: My Husband Wants Our 9-Year-Old Son to Play Tackle Football. Help!

How To!: Breathe Like a Navy SEAL

Big Mood, Little Mood: Am I Cis Now?

I Don’t Want My Dad to Attend My Daughter’s Wedding. Help!

How To!: Succeed at Social Media