How to Be Anything

Bonus: I Used to Be A Weed Courier

Laney spent two years cycling across New York City as a courier, delivering weed and gummies straight to people’s doors. Along the way, she met eccentric characters: a man with a hallway full of newspapers, a woman with a house full of disco balls, and a musician diagnosed with Parkinson's who used weed to play his instruments. The job was exhausting, risky, sometimes scary, but also filled with surprising moments of connection. In this bonus episode, Laney shares how cycling 13+ miles a day changed the way she saw the city, and herself. We're a bootstrapped, indie podcast, so please text a friend and share your favorite episode. Every download helps. Don't forget to rate and review and tell us what you really think. Those go a long way too.  To learn more about the show and our guests, visit howtobeanything.com [https://www.howtobeanything.com/] Find us on Instagram: instagram.com/howtobeanything [https://open.acast.com/%C2%A0https://www.instagram.com/howtobeanything/] See pictures of our guests and get a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast on our Substack at howtobeanything.com. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

10. How to Teach Dogs to Find Cancer

On September 11, Dr. Cindy Otto cared for the search-and-rescue dogs working the pile at Ground Zero—an experience that changed the course of her career. Today, she leads the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, where dogs are trained to climb ladders, sniff out explosives, and even detect cancer in humans (and dogs!). In this episode, Dr. Otto shares how dogs learn to separate the “signal from the noise” in complex human blood samples and why their supernoses are helping scientists build new diagnostic tools. It’s a story about resilience, science, and the extraordinary bond between humans and dogs. See pictures of our guests and get a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast on our Substack at howtobeanything.com. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

9. How to Be a Doctor in the Arctic Circle

What does it take to be the only doctor in a remote Arctic village, where polar bears roam and lab results arrive by plane—if the weather allows? In this episode, Dr. Jen Pond shares her journey from practicing medicine in a mud hut in India to working at the world’s highest ER at Everest Base Camp, and now serving an Inuit community in Nunavut. She reflects on the extremes of remote medicine, the lingering effects of colonialism on Indigenous health, and the mental strength required to practice in such environments. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to trade a suburban clinic for the edges of the world, this conversation will open your eyes. We're a bootstrapped, indie podcast, so please text a friend and share your favorite episode. Every download helps. Don't forget to rate and review and tell us what you really think. Those go a long way too.  Find us on Substack: howtobeanything.com [https://www.howtobeanything.com/] And on Instagram: instagram.com/howtobeanything/ [https://www.instagram.com/howtobeanything/] See pictures of our guests and get a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast on our Substack at howtobeanything.com. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

8. How to Be a Tower Climber

Tower climbers risk their lives to keep your phone signal working—and most people don’t even know the job exists. In this episode, climber Brendon King shares what it’s really like to scale a steel tower swaying like a spaghetti noodle, nap in a harness suspended 300 feet in the air, and discover cell antennas hiding in fake cactuses and church steeples. It’s dangerous, breathtaking work that powers nearly everything we do. We're a bootstrapped, indie podcast, so please text a friend and share your favorite episode. Every download helps. Don't forget to rate and review and tell us what you really think. Those go a long way too.  Find us on Substack: howtobeanything.com [https://www.howtobeanything.com/] And on Instagram: instagram.com/howtobeanything/ [https://www.instagram.com/howtobeanything/] See pictures of our guests and get a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast on our Substack at howtobeanything.com. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Bonus: I Used to Be a Corporate Butler

When an aspiring journalist took a day job as a butler for Philadelphia’s ultra-rich, he found himself serving Michelin-star meals, running dry cleaning, and accidentally spiking the water with zucchini. In this bonus episode, Max Ufberg shares the strange, funny, and sometimes uncomfortable realities of working behind the scenes for the one percent. The experience gave him an education in class and work. Today, he’s a senior editor at Fast Company, but he still remembers what it felt like to answer the bell. We're a bootstrapped, indie podcast, so please text a friend and share your favorite episode. Every download helps. Don't forget to rate and review and tell us what you really think. Those go a long way too.  To learn more about the show and our guests, visit howtobeanything.com [https://www.howtobeanything.com/] Find us on Instagram: instagram.com/howtobeanything [https://open.acast.com/%C2%A0https://www.instagram.com/howtobeanything/] See pictures of our guests and get a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast on our Substack at howtobeanything.com. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.