“Buffy is a true north guide through the never-ending rocky channels.”
-Sarah P.
Launched in April 2020, the Things That Will Help podcast has become an anchor for Buffy and her community of listeners. How do we stay open in this world? How do we grow through our pain? Buffy offers practical guidance on life’s universal themes and questions grounded in textured storytelling. She teaches about the beauty and the breadth of human experience, even in all of its pain and cracking.
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Playlists
Each episode is accompanied by a Spotify playlist, curated by Matthew Cooper, which span genres, moods, and characteristics. See the full archive of playlists here.
Episode 46: The Lucky Will Help
The Lucky - aka, electrifying, spark-filled, pure magic - exists. And we don't have to be on our best behavior for it to come to us. It's not about talent, it's not about doing well, it's not about being good - it's an undercurrent that exists no matter what.
Episode 45: Here Will Help
This podcast episode is a reminder that you are in the middle of navigating something Here. What does it mean to have a "Sharp Pencil" day? What could you set down in order to arrive in just one place - Here?
Episode 44: Clarity Will Help
This episode is about decluttering your space and your life, and it's about so much more. Clarity is what you get when you declutter; it's what you're left with more of. And the space that's left, this is what helps.
Episode 43: Grief Will Help
In this episode, Buffy digs deeper into the devastating magic of grief; and how we can shape it into art, link it to a collective empathy, and use it to help us find our breath.
Episode 42: Vivi Will Help
Five years ago, Buffy's mother - Vivian, also known as "Vivi" - moved from Alabama to Colorado, five minutes away from Buffy and her family.
Episode 41: Audacity Will Help
Take a moment to reflect on the pockets of your life where you're taking up space, nurturing your creativity, or calling in fertility. Can you feel the audacity of it? How much boldness it takes to create something that doesn't yet exist?
Episode 40: Little Mothers
Buffy shares the translation of the Sanskrit word mantrika as "little mothers," and in this episode, she talks about all of the ways our inner talk can both take us down and bolster us up.
Episode 39: This AMA Will Help
in this special episode, Buffy answers listener questions like, "How do I set and hold boundaries? What is the importance of women leading women?" and other listener-submitted questions.
Episode 38: Catch and Release Will Help
This episode is entirely devoted to the practice of letting things go without taking it personally. Buffy tells stories of failed party friends, people and homes changing forms, and what happens when we allow for the uninhibited flow and grace of love to appear on its own, without restriction.
Episode 37: To Generate Will Help
How can we break routines or create new, helpful habits? Buffy says: don't wait. Just begin. She emphasizes the amazing benefits of a daily, timed container.
Episode 36: Forgetting Will Help
This episode includes stories of chocolate cake for breakfast, porch-side hellos, and the imminent joy of getting to hug our people after many pandemic months.
Episode 35: Beauty Marks Will Help (Part 2)
Beauty marks make the world more real, beautiful, and alive. From a brisk cold winter day, to the perfect pen and paper, to strange four-year-old fascinations, this episode will have you delighting in the small beautiful things in life.
Episode 34: Your Why Will Help
Peloton instructor and all-around badass Tunde Oyeneyin is the inspiration for this episode, and Buffy riffs on her framework of building a personal mission statement to organize your words and actions daily. This is a practice that will widen your spiritual scope and clarify your compass' true north.
Episode 33: Getting Lost Will Help
When was the last time you were lost? Buffy moves us through stories of getting lost, distinguishing its different varieties in a way both poetic and practical. A healthy kind of getting lost feels like a lost that creates strength and gratitude to return home.
Episode 32: In Media Res Will Help
Buffy begins this season right in the middle - in media res. She discusses the idea of the threshold, and how we are always in the middle, on our way up, or on our way down, from just about everything.
Episode 31: Bravery Will Help
This week's stories include tales of doctor office visits, angel cheerleaders in the form of middle school teachers, closet cheetahs and tigers, and the bravery to leave a marriage. You will leave this episode feeling enlivened, bolstered, and just maybe your flicker of bravery blooming into a full flame.
Episode 30: Graceland Will Help
Have you ever felt the wide, encompassing experience of grace? If you're not sure, this episode will light up the ways grace can be lived, felt, and experienced.
Episode 29: Truxel Will Help
What do Freddy Mercury’s teeth, twins, and extreme introversion have in common? This week’s invitation is to consider your Truxel and polish it.
Episode 28: Speed Bumps & Parades Will Help
Listen to tales of temper tantrums and raging inner fires, and how speed bumps can be a tool for course correction and parades a tool for recalibration.
Episode 27: Remembering Will Help
If you stripped away all of the personal hurts, injustices, and trauma that have covered you up, and made you self-protect over the years, what would be underneath that? What's the quality you come by most honestly?