Happy Monday!Yesterday, You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist kicked off! You received an email announcing the first 4 episodes, as well as future plans for the podcast. Well, starting today, new episodes drop weekly every Monday. Without further ado* I’m excited to present to you… Dr. Rhoberta Shaler has spent her career helping the partners, exes, adult children and siblings of relentlessly difficult people. In this episode, she shares a lifetime’s worth of wisdom on what she calls "hijackals" — people who hijack relationships for their own purposes and then relentlessly scavenge them for power, status and control. Watch my interview with Dr. Shaler on YouTube; listen on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or any other platform of your choice. Oh, and about Episode 3 —For the first couple of hours that the podcast was live yesterday, Episode 3 cut out abruptly at 52 minutes on audio streaming platforms, though the YouTube version was always fine. That has since been fixed, and the correct full version is now available everywhere. Another ridiculously easy way to support the podcastYou already know it helps me when you like, subscribe, rate, review, and share the podcast on your platforms of choice. You might not know this though: one of the main ways podcasters recoup our investments and sustain our work is through monetizing our YouTube channels. In order to qualify for monetization, I need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours. My fledgling jumped from 4 to 19 subscribers yesterday. If you were one of those 15, thank you! And if every one of my mailing list subscribers were to subscribe to my YouTube channel, I’d be halfway to 1,000! And, if each of you were to also leave my videos running in the background on a device you don’t need for a few hours — even if you prefer to listen on, let’s say, Spotify — that could speed up my timeline to monetization tremendously. Plus, when you let the videos run in full, it tells the algorithm that these long-form interviews are actually worth people’s time and should therefore be displayed in search results. (Sometimes the algorithms don’t favor longer videos like mine if people only listen to small percentages of their total run time.) I’ve been paying my podcast engineer and assistant out of my own funds. I couldn’t do this without their help. I’d like to help the podcast sustain itself within the next year so that I’m encouraged to keep going. This is an easy way you can help me get there. Don’t worry about being better than the person you were yesterday. Just aim to be kind to the person you may become tomorrow.Stephanie Winn *In yesterday’s email I used the French farewell, adieu, when the English synonym for fuss, ado, was the appropriate word.
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