How to Do Life

By Marty Nemko

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Practical, not-obvious advice about career, relationships, money, health, the meaning of life, and more. U.S. News called the host, Dr. Marty Nemko, "coach extraordinaire." He has been a career and personal coach to almost 6,000 people and enjoys a 95+% client-satisfaction rate.

Episode Date
Our Approach to Men
Nov 17, 2025
I Try to be Amused by it all Updated
Sep 18, 2025
Shortshort Stories from my Book Dark
Jul 28, 2025
Seven Shortshort Stories from my Book Little Doggie Stories
Jul 15, 2025
Watching-Acting in-and-Directing Plays
Jun 23, 2025
Poignant Stories
May 01, 2025
On Writing and Reading - 7 Short Pieces
Mar 22, 2025
Excerpts From My Book Baby Steps - Doable Ways to Improve Your Life
Feb 27, 2025
Shortshort Stories from My Book - Senior Stories
Feb 26, 2025
The Favorite of My 2025 Tweets
Feb 24, 2025
Asked and Answered: Questions I wish someone would ask me and the honest answers I would give
Feb 22, 2025
Favorite Personal Growth Ideas
Jan 28, 2025
My Holiday Short-Story Stories
Dec 22, 2024
My Two-Minute Takeoffs on Fairy Tales and the Like
Dec 08, 2024
My Tongue-in-Cheek Nominees for the President's Cabinet
Dec 03, 2024
Some Lighter Short-Short Stories I've Written
Oct 11, 2024
I Try to be Amused By It All But
Sep 16, 2024
From a Park Bench
Jul 23, 2024
If I Were Running for President_The planks of my platform
Jul 22, 2024
My Most Popular One-Line Advice, Explained
Jul 22, 2024
In a Word my Candor on a Dozen Words Related to Fun
Jun 03, 2024
Thoughts on Getting Stuff Done
Apr 25, 2024
No One Listens to Even my Best Ideas
Apr 01, 2024
The Darkest of the 500 3 Minute Stories I've Written
Apr 01, 2024
Why We've Become Sadder
Apr 01, 2024
Pullquotes from My Book How To Do Life, Plus My Most Recent 15 Tweets
Feb 01, 2024
Pullquotes from My Book Baby Steps
Feb 01, 2024
Stuporheroes - Nine Parables
Jan 30, 2024
Private Thoughts - A Series of Short Short Stories
Jan 14, 2024
Little Doggie Stories -Short Short Stories from My Book of That Title
Jan 13, 2024
The Funniest Things I've Ever Written
Nov 29, 2023
Frank Worrell on the Present and Future of Education
Oct 18, 2023
Dark Stories for Adults - In time for Halloween
Sep 22, 2023
Here I Perform My Favorite Eight of My 500 Short-Short Stories
Aug 25, 2023
Lessons Learned from 10 Career Coaching Clients
Aug 25, 2023
How I'm Dealing with Aging
Aug 25, 2023
My Routines - Key to a productive and comfortable life
Aug 25, 2023
Relationship Stories
Jul 15, 2023
Stories About Work
Jul 15, 2023
How to Start a Business, for example, a cafe
May 30, 2023
The Favorite of my short-short stories
Apr 13, 2023
My Views, Liberal and Conservative
Apr 04, 2023
Upbeat Stories from my book, Soloists
Mar 22, 2023
The darkest stories in my new book, Soloists_stories of introverts and outsiders facing a dilemma
Mar 22, 2023
My Very Best Ideas for You, For the World
Mar 21, 2023
Five of My Favorite Essays - by Joseph Epstein, Philip Lopate, and Stephen West
Mar 01, 2023
15 Ideas for Your Career and Your Life
Feb 19, 2023
3 of My Short-Short Stories for Valentine's Day Plus 11 Other Favorites
Feb 11, 2023
Why the Israel_Palestinian Conflict
Feb 03, 2023
Some of My Favorite Short-Short Stories
Jan 13, 2023
Musings on Education, Climate Change, Effective Altruism, Screwing Up, Ideological Diversity & More
Nov 30, 2022
7 Unpopular Ideas About Work
Nov 29, 2022
How to Do Life. Marty Nemko in Conversation with Autodesk's Ex-CEO Carl Bass
Nov 19, 2022
Curate Everything_Key to a good life
Nov 18, 2022
Choosing a Career_Advice re tech, liberal arts grads, self-employment, future-proofing
Nov 06, 2022
A Rational Approach to Life
Oct 25, 2022
An Inside Look at Writers and Writing
Oct 24, 2022
Advice I'd Give to a Young Person
Oct 10, 2022
Questions My Career Counseling Clients Ask
Oct 09, 2022
11 Two-Minute Stories for Adults at Halloween (realistic situations, no ghosts, witches, etc.)
Oct 05, 2022
Music and Lyrics of Love and Life
Oct 04, 2022
All I Think You Need to Know About Dogs
Oct 04, 2022
Everyday Miracles
Oct 03, 2022
What's Important and Not Important in Your Child's Education
Oct 03, 2022
Musings on intelligence, mentors, high school football, procrastination, diamonds, and love lyrics
Oct 02, 2022
My musings on diet, career, beauty, AI, utilitarianism, and more
Oct 02, 2022
A Master List of Possible Cures for Procrastination
Sep 27, 2022
My Favorite Ideas on Communicating Effectively
Sep 21, 2022
My Answers to Common Career Questions
Sep 20, 2022
Riffs on My Favorite Tweets
Sep 19, 2022
My Best Ideas...Inspired by listening to Lex Fridman
Sep 18, 2022
My 11 Favorite Short-Short Stories from My New Book, Soloists
Sep 18, 2022
Keys to Being a Good Leader, Working Remotely, and Knowing When You've Topped Out
Aug 29, 2022
My Thoughts on Relationships_Familial, Platonic, Romantic
Aug 26, 2022
My 16 favorite short-short stories from my book, Soloists_outsiders and introverts facing a dilemma
Jul 05, 2022
The final 21 short-short stories from my book, Soloists_People who tried to make it on their own
Jun 20, 2022
4 More of My Short-Short-Stories
Jun 07, 2022
Yet more short-short stories written and read for you by Marty Nemko
May 18, 2022
9 More Short-Short Stories from My Next Book: Soloists--people who try to make it on their own.
May 05, 2022
11 More Short-Short Stories from my Forthcoming Collection: Soloists
May 05, 2022
Two dozen short poems from my book, Poems Practical
May 04, 2022
Soloists: 10 short-short stories about people who mainly went it alone
Apr 19, 2022
Stories from My Life: Lessons for Us All
Apr 09, 2022
Requiem for Merit
Mar 17, 2022
Starting Out: A few thoughts on career, relationships, health, money, and peace of mind
Mar 17, 2022
Oddish thoughts on war, relationships, groupthink, diet, meetings, work ethic, praise, and coffee
Mar 15, 2022
Efficiency Rules: 9 Keys to a Better Life
Mar 08, 2022
My 11 Commandments: What I tell myself and others
Mar 07, 2022
Succeeding Solo: How I've Tried to Do It
Feb 24, 2022
Musings on Aging
Feb 11, 2022
Marty Nemko Riffs on His Best Tweets
Feb 07, 2022
Quotes from Great Minds Stitched Together into "Conversations"
Jan 21, 2022
The Upsides and Downsides of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Jan 03, 2022
Know Thyself_Questions to help you do that
Dec 14, 2021
How I Try to Live Up to My Potential
Nov 30, 2021
Thoughts on the Holidays_Philosophy, presents, guesting, hosting
Nov 21, 2021
Marty Nemko Reads from His Book, Poems Practical
Oct 30, 2021
My Most Potent Ideas on Career and On Relationships
Oct 15, 2021
When is it Wise to be Radically Honest?
Oct 11, 2021
The Art of Being a Self-Help Writer
Oct 06, 2021
Running a Private Practice More Easily
Sep 16, 2021
Ploys People May Try to Pull on You
Sep 16, 2021
Thinking About Disengaging from Life?
Sep 16, 2021
7 Fast and 3 Slow Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Life
Sep 16, 2021
The Case for Self-Denial
Jun 29, 2021
Marty Nemko shows you how to play, sing, or listen to music to evoke maximum emotion
Jun 28, 2021
Having Trouble Sleeping_Dealing with Getting Older
Jun 28, 2021
My best 113 of my 5,000 tweets__ On work, procrastination, relationships, education, and more
Jun 25, 2021
Avoiding Poverty
Jun 22, 2021
The New Normal _Marty Nemko-s Predictions on Work, Home, Health, Recreation and More
Apr 26, 2021
Becoming More Persuasive...and Interesting
Apr 23, 2021
Questions to Help You Know Yourself Better
Apr 23, 2021
About Love_Extended Version
Apr 21, 2021
Reflections on my Life as a Career Coach
Apr 21, 2021
When You-ve Long Been Unwanted, Rejected
Apr 20, 2021
Co-Mentoring_A Fine Tool for Professional and Personal Growth
Apr 20, 2021
My Best Ideas on Relationships
Feb 25, 2021
My Best Ideas About Work
Feb 25, 2021
One-Minute Cuisine
Feb 13, 2021
Helping Your Adult Child Grow Up
Feb 11, 2021
34 Questions to Ask Yourself or Someone You Want to Know Better
Feb 11, 2021
Meditations on Birth
Feb 11, 2021
Getting More Done
Feb 11, 2021
Our New Normal?
Feb 10, 2021
The Art of Questioning
Feb 10, 2021
The Case for Moderation
Feb 09, 2021
Happiness
Feb 04, 2021
Making And Deepening Friendships_ With Peers, Romantic Partners, Parent, And In Mentoring
Feb 03, 2021
The Case For Being A Straight Arrow
Feb 02, 2021
Becoming More Ethical
Feb 01, 2021
An Advanced Class in Communication
Feb 01, 2021
Parenting a Bright or Gifted Child
Oct 10, 2020
Reinventing Education, Making the Most of It As It Is
Oct 09, 2020
The Most Inspiring Everyman You'll Ever Hear About
Oct 09, 2020
So You Want to Write
Oct 04, 2020
Solohood and Couplehood
Oct 04, 2020
Your Appearance and Judging Others
Oct 04, 2020
Being Out of Step
Oct 04, 2020
Spirituality for Atheists and Agnostics
Sep 02, 2020
The Meaning of Life
Sep 02, 2020
8 Common Career Problems
Sep 02, 2020
Work in 2021 and Beyond
Sep 02, 2020
Brighter: Getting smarter or at least being perceived as smarter
Sep 02, 2020
Music: Enjoying music more + the world's shortest course in how to play by ear
Sep 02, 2020
Aging: Dealing with Decline
Jul 30, 2020
Recreation in the COVID Era
Jul 30, 2020
Living as a sad, angry, or anxious person
Jul 30, 2020
What's the Big Idea? Reinventing work, education, taxation
Jul 30, 2020
What to Say: Work, Relationships, Miscellany
Jul 30, 2020
Self-Employment in the COVID Era
Jul 17, 2020
COVID Careers
Jul 17, 2020
Your Health: Physical and Emotional
Apr 22, 2020
How to Do Life: The Musts
Apr 22, 2020
When You've Been Ignored and Rejected . . .a lot
Apr 22, 2020
Know Thyself: Becoming more self-aware
Apr 22, 2020
Getting Smarter + Lessons from My Life's Failures
Apr 22, 2020
Parenting: The Three Key Principles
Apr 22, 2020
Toward a Good Romantic Relationship
Apr 22, 2020
Your Child's Education
Apr 22, 2020
On Time: What works in time management and in managing procrastination
Apr 22, 2020
Doggies
Apr 22, 2020
Money: Earning, spending, investing, donating
Apr 22, 2020
Gardening
Apr 22, 2020
Wisdom on Work
Apr 22, 2020