S6 Ep266: ADVICE GIVING: Jessica Weisberg (The Next Step)

This interview is with Jessica Weisberg. Jessica Weisberg is an award-winning writer and producer. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Harper’s, and Atavist, among other publications, and been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She ran the features unit at Vice News Tonight on HBO, for which she was nominated for an Emmy, and is a senior producer at Serial Podcast.  Her first book, Asking for a Friend, came out in 2018.

Katherine read it last year and LOVED it. The book is about advice givers – people who have offered up advice to others throughout time.

Some examples of prominent advice givers featured are: 

• Dale Carnegie who wrote, How to Win Friends and Influence People 
• Cheryl Strayed, author of Dear Sugar
• Dear Abby, a popular newspaper column in 1950’s
• Life coach Martha Back 

The books is super interesting, as is Jessica. We talk about a bunch of stuff including the fact that her intention for the book was to take advice givers seriously.

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