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 world of professional sports, the weird way in which grief entangles itself in you, connecting your body with your heart, how a safe relationship can help you feel safer within yourself, and the importance of anger rituals.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• Sinead on Instagram
• Scream Club Chicago

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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 helped her to escape and to understand, foster care and the safety within being present, the life-changing power of public libraries, how hip hop therapy helped one of her client's open up his heart, and the connective, healing magic of deep listening.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• Bibliotherapy In the Bronx (Emely's book!)
• Emely on Instagram
• Emely's website
• Readers Who Run with the Wolves (free book club!)
• Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
• We Alive, Beloved by Frederick Joseph

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• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
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• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Need some help with your podcast, or thinking about starting a podcast? Get in touch!
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

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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 drowning in it, why dogs are helpers too and how Lane's dog Lights gifted Lane their first truly safe relationship, how to communicate what you need in relationships, and what it's like to see and be seen in our friendships.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• You Will Find Your People (book)
• I Thought It Was Just Me (Lane's podcast)
• Lane's Substack
• Final Girl (album)
• Tinder Live
• Lane on Instagram

Enjoy the podcast? Here are some ways to support to Nōn:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Need some help with your podcast, or thinking about starting a podcast? Get in touch!
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 from the public influenced his return to the park service, the stuff in life we take for granted because of our lack of awareness of its impact on us, and the inherent meaning and poetry of wilderness.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• National Parks Conversation Association
• The Sierra Club
• "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
• The Pitt
• Michael Lewis on Bravery in Politics and Why Elon Musk Seems so "Disturbed" (Pod Save America)
• Alex on Instagram

Enjoy the podcast? Here are some ways to support to Nōn:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Need some help with your podcast, or thinking about starting a podcast? Get in touch!
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 of color, the systems that eat up big-hearted helpers, the beauty of sacred rage, why sometimes you need a helper who will talk to debt collectors for you, and all the many human things—resources, ego, energy, resentment—that influence our capacity for helping and receiving help.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• Decolonizing Therapy
• Dr. Jenn on Instagram
• From Root to Bone podcast
• Order Decolonizing Therapy the book!
• Project LETS

Enjoy the podcast? Here are some ways to support to Nōn:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Need some help with your podcast, or thinking about starting a podcast? Get in touch!
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 hot takes, the magic of childlike wonder, and Whitney's transformative story about a generational quilt that represents Black love and liberation.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• Whitney on TikTok @TheWokeMama
• Whitney on Instagram @thereclaimed
• The Philly Download
• Enon Tabernacle Church PA

How you can support Nōn and this independently-run podcast:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Need some help with your podcast, or thinking about starting a podcast? Get in touch!
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 deepen his patience and soften his anger, why we shouldn't be judged by how well we follow society's expectations, and learning how to ask for help.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• Surfers Healing
• Craig on Instagram

How you can support Nōn and this independently-run podcast:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Need some help with your podcast, or thinking about starting a podcast? Get in touch!
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 immunocompromised, to see the world "move on" from Covid, why online activism is real activism, how Mary's community helped her realize that she had been living with multiple chronic conditions, and why all issues are disability justice issues.

Full Transcription.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• UpgradeAccessibility.com
• Adventurous Adeline
• The Way Home
• New Disabled South
• Named Advocates
• 10 Principles of Disability Justice
• Mary on Instagram

How you can support Nōn and this independently-run podcast:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 can all take on more collective risk in pursuit of collective liberation, and the story of when Michelle lost nearly all of her clients for standing up for Palestine.

Helpful things mentioned during this episode:

• MichelleMijungKim.com
• I Feel That Way Too
• Michelle on Instagram
• Michelle on LinkedIn
• Asian Americans for Civil Rights & Equality (AACRE)
• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem

How you can support Nōn and this independently-run podcast:

• Leave a 5-star rating and a wildly glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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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 glowing review for We Can't Do It Alone on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods.
• Order The Feely Cards on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local indie bookseller for yourself and literally everyone you know.
• Listen to You, Me, Empathy, Nōn's previous podcast about mental health, empathy, and big feelings.
• Connect with Nōn at nonwels.com and on Instagram @youmeempathy.

Thank you for listening to We Can't Do It Alone! Don't forget about the helpers. We all need help. Even you.

xoxo

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