In this episode, Buffy challenges us to get curious about what is not like us through stories of post-car crashes, sheer tops, and unexpected moments of friction.

How does deep listening shape the way we experience life? How does it help us notice what we might otherwise overlook? Buffy reflects on the shift from doing into being, the connection between listening and play, and how joy and creativity can deepen our relationship to our inner life.

This conversation is an invitation for you to reflect: What could you cut? What could you create? Tune in for an honest exploration of subtraction, intention, and the space we make for what truly matters.

Your attention is a precious and finite resource. This episode is a reminder of the importance of using that resource well, and with skill, by focusing on magic and synchronicity alongside the pain and the suffering.

Buffy tells stories of auspicious bird-of-prey sightings, friendship, and drop-down menus to help you orient to where you are - right now, today, and this year - in order to bring your art, and your heart, into being.

This week's episode is about the signs, sparks, and detours that sometimes subtly, sometimes suddenly, change the course of your life. Tune in for stories of worry stones, and synchronicities, and the cosmic bread crumbs that are divinely placed for us to follow.

Buffy invites a compassionate approach to letting go of outdated aspirations, sharing practical and inspiring ways to recycle or reimagine those dreams; how can you shape them into something fresh, vibrant, and aligned with your current self?

This week's episode is a practical plan to support in your anxiety. There are different practices to help you access your body, soothe your mind, and tend to the practical areas of your life to support your inner world.

. What happens when you become unrecognizable to others through life circumstances, purposeful change, or both? Buffy talks about what happens when we shed a layer of the old us and find a more authentic, expressed center.

The process of writing a letter, in an authentic way, changes you. It marks something, and it is exchange of energy, whether it is delivered to the person it was meant for, or not.

It is easy for challenging moments in our lives to capture our attention and energy; it is perhaps much more difficult to pay attention to what's beautiful, true, and brings us joy.

What is mine now? What is mine for later? What is not mine at all? Buffy offers definitions for these piles that offer clarity, save time, and protect emotional energy.

As a treat for listeners this week, Buffy brings on her husband Matt to deliver a speech he recently gave to a group of thousands about fear, bravery, perfection, and the ways they are all braided together.

You are probably managing an impossible soup of lightning-quick news cycles, a daily-changing world, a complex inner life, all while remembering the tasks that make your life run. Buffy talks to listeners about how slowing down can support the endeavor to regulate our nervous systems, bolster hope, and prioritize connection.

Buffy helps listeners deepen their understanding of the phrase “it takes a village”; that we might look for and cultivate the "field agents" in our life that support our families, our goals, and our personal unfolding.

In this special episode, Alex gives Buffy an astrological natal chart reading. They talk about the intricacies and complexities of Buffy's life and being, and about her hard-won identity as a communicator, writer, and orator.

Buffy celebrates her brother Benjamin, who died twenty years ago this week. Buffy honors the lessons of not only his death but his life.

Your energy and your time are some of the most valuable resources you have, and in this episode Buffy speaks to the ways energy currency relates to introversion vs. extroversion.

Buffy reflects on four years of Things That Will Help and the power of standing still, looking back, and marking moments in time as a way to measure our transformation.