
“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 55: Feedback Will Help Part 2
Buffy talks about feedback from a personal place. She talks about the context, set-up, and the ways feedback is most effective. Today's stories are about rainbow carpet conversations, births, and approaching feedback with curiosity.
Episode 54: Feedback Will Help Part 1
What happens when you get feedback - both solicited and unsolicited? Buffy talks about aaaaallllll of the ways we receive feedback, and gives some suggestions for how to receive it in a way that is healthy and tends to sensitivities.
Episode 53: With the Grain Will Help
Buffy tells stories of boot-quaking imposter syndrome, pink shorts, and going to great heights. The call is to step into your own you-ness, to get specific with things you need to conquer. You'll consider the hills you are currently climbing - are they for you, or are they a distraction?
Episode 52: Potion or Poison Will Help
What is the tipping point when something turns from potion to poison? From helpful to harmful? In this episode, Buffy asks you to consider where in your life you are treading that line and how to reorient to what's in alignment for your life.
Episode 51: Disruption Will Help
Disruption can bury or buoy us. Buffy talks about why it helps and the ways we can shape it so it becomes the fertile ground for transformation. She tells tales of profundity in the park and shares stories of disruption across the last year.
Episode 50: 3 Jewels Will Help
Buffy tells stories about apologies: how we can hear them, how we can respond to them, and how they can close circles of healing.
Episode 49: Wild Witness Will Help
This episode helps us remember that the people who make up our family structures are who they are, ultimately, no matter how we feel about it.
Episode 48: Mixed Pots Will Help
This is a podcast about air, fire, water, earth, and space: the five elements. Buffy tells stories of calla lilies a night around a fire to illuminate the ways in which seeing the world through the lens of the elements can give us more access to harmony and self-awareness.
Episode 47: Honey With Bones Will Help
Honey is the sweet nectar. Bones are the sacred boundaries. This episode is about how integrating them will help. Buffy spins stories of a moving day, national treasure Dolly Parton, and how our willingness to see each other as human helps us steadily hold both the honey and the bones.
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.