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The Story Behind Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious AdviceIt all started, as many things do around here, with Patricia being irritated. 
Latest EpisodeEEDA Pod Book Squad: Winning Friends & Influencing PeopleOctober 1, 2025 Show Notes: In this milestone 50th episode, Patricia and Nicole launch the EEDA Pod Book Club by diving into “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” discussing its historical context, enduring popularity, and problematic aspects. They reflect on the book’s advice, its questionable undertones, and how it shaped the self-help genre, while sharing their own… Read more: EEDA Pod Book Squad: Winning Friends & Influencing People 
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Patricia (The Infophile) Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (aka Patricia Elzie) is a writer, podcaster, and librarian. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. More of her written work can also be found on Book Riot, in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia is co-host of the All the Books and All the Backlist podcast, where she recommends a variety of reads. She lives in Oakland, CA with her wife Nicole and a positively alarming amount of books. Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (she/her) 
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Nicole Nicole has eaten tacos in Sweden and Beijing. Neither were remotely good. Not even passable. Nicole Elzie-Tuttle (she/her)
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