This New Year's Eve, enjoy some recent conversations with experts to guide us to 2022:

• Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Brave Enough, takes questions from listeners on how to get started on that creative project, push through writer's block, and just keep going.
• Michelle Singletary, personal finance columnist for The Washington Post and author of What To Do With Your Money When Crisis Hits (Mariner Books May 18, 2021), answers listener questions on finances, from how much to put away each week to how to invest ethically.
• Jamilah Lemieux , co-host of Slate's weekly parenting podcast, "Mom and Dad Are Fighting," answers listener questions about parenting, from what to do if your kid is afraid of the dentist to playdate etiquette.
• Amir Levine, MD, adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist, conducting neuroscience research at Columbia University and co-author of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love (TarcherPerigee, 2012), discusses his book and why it continues to be so popular for people who are dating.
• Julia Cameron , author of several books including The Artist's Way (TarcherPerigee; 25th Anniversary ed. edition, 2016), discusses her book and why it continues to be so popular for people who are tapping into their inner artist.
• Melissa Brown, assistant professor of communication at Santa Clara University, discusses research examining ways people bully others online and what bystanders can to decrease harmful effects of cyberbullying.

These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity; the original web versions are available here:

Cheryl Strayed on How to Get Started (Oct. 13, 2021)

Financial Therapy With Michelle Singletary (Oct. 18, 2021)

How Do I Help My Kid With Their Vaccine Needle Phobia? And Other Parenting Questions (Oct. 14, 2021)

Bigger Than Self-Help: 'Attached' by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (Dec. 7, 2021)

Bigger Than Self-Help: 'The Artist's Way' by Julia Cameron (Dec. 9, 2021)

Bystander Intervention on Social Media: Responding to Racist Hate Speech and Cyberbullying (Dec. 13, 2021)