Every week, thousands of readers relish the insightful, surprising, hilarious, and clear-headed advice from Hera Lindsay Bird's column, Help Me Hera, but one-year in, she has a question. Did anyone take her advice? And if so, how did it go?

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"Consult your own wicked heart, if you have the stomach for it. But if not, drop me a line, and let's hash this thing out together."

After a year of writing The Spinoff's advice column, Hera has a question: Has it helped? Did the anonymous writers appreciate her wise counsel? What happened next?

Join Hera and The Spinoff editor Madeleine Chapman as they follow up on some of the memorable advice given over the past year, checking in with the recipients and revealing their findings. This will be a live recording of The Spinoff podcast Behind the Story.

Hera Lindsay Bird is a writer and children's bookseller based in Dunedin. She pens the Help Me Hera advice column for The Spinoff, which you can read at thespinoff.co.nz/help-me-hera

Madeleine Chapman is the editor of The Spinoff. She is the author of Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader and the co-author of Steven Adams' bestselling autobiography My Life, My Fight.

The Spinoff Live

Our popular columns, podcasts, pop culture takes and politics are hitting the road. The Spinoff LIVE is a ten event series across Auckland and Wellington, featuring live chats between our writers and special guests. Check out all our upcoming events here.

Throughout the series Madeleine Chapman, Duncan Greive, Anna Rawhiti-Connell, Alex Casey, Hera Lindsay Bird and more will take to the stage to have the crack-up and consequential conversations that people expect from Aotearoa’s most innovative independent media organisation.

Creative Team:

Hosts: Madeleine Chapman and Hera Lindsay Bird
Audio engineer: Te Aihe Butler
Producer: Ben Fagan
Design: Tina Tiller

Contact the host of The Spinoff Live: Help Me Hera