Writer Elise Loehnen explores lifeβs big questions with todayβs leading thinkers, experts, and luminaries: Why do we do what we do? How can we understand and love ourselves better? What would it look like to come together and build a more meaningful world?
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For the show notes (including a link to Carissaβs 92nd Street Y event on October 3, which you can stream), head to eliseloehnen.com.
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Monday, September 28, 2026 β’ Duration 32:24
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How Do We Help People with Addiction? (Stephanie Wittels Wachs)
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ββI think these resources are good because it gives you the language and the tools to do something that doesnβt necessarily feel right,β says Stephanie Wittels Wachs, author of Last Day. Steph also hosts a podcast by the same name and is the cofounder and CEO of Lemonada Media (the podcast network Iβve been with for the last year or so). Iβm so grateful to Steph for sharing a more nuanced and compassionate perspective on addiction, and for creating a vital guide for living with addiction, for connecting with loved ones who have this disease, for saving more livesβand for evolving our culture more broadly, which is so needed. Also for the warmth and humor with which Steph does this all!
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