Bad Advice

How to Survive and Thrive in an Age of Bullshit

By: Venus Nicolino

Narrated by: Venus Nicolino

Over motivational messages? Sick AF of inspirational quotes? Done with the shiny happy bad advice that gets you nowhere? Well, heads up: you’re about to get a shitload of Good Advice.

In Bad Advice, relationship expert Dr. Venus Nicolino—a.k.a. Dr. V—takes a blowtorch to the shrink-wrapped, “feel good” BS that passes for self-help these days.

When you’re heartbroken, what do you hear? You can’t love anyone until you love yourself. When someone’s hurt you? Nobody can make you feel bad without your permission. When you’re just a little too positive? Expectations lead to disappointment.

Pop culture noise gives Bad Advice the varnish of truthiness and inspiration. But it’s not truth; it’s not inspiration. It’s bullshit. And at its root, all Bad Advice operates off the same lie: Emotions are optional. In Bad Advice, Dr. V delivers a bracing truth serum, in the form of Good Advice—an antidote to the bullshit, from “Just Be Yourself” to “Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last,” that teaches you to live your life in a way that honors who you are, what you need, and how you feel.

Smart and irreverent, Dr. V fuses the brains and insight of a nerdy Ph.D. with the heart of a doting Italian Mother and the artful profanity of a Philly trucker. Dr. V’s signature combination of humor, hard science, and heart make Bad Advice an iconoclastic course-correction like no other. A fiercely sharp wake-up call that tackles some of self-help’s most damaging truisms, Bad Advice is a never shy guide to tapping into your full potential.

It's worth it

I finished it in a day. It sums up what you probably think about annoying platitudes people with no idea what they are talking about say. She replaces them with ones that make sense rather than give you the impulse to cuss someone out for giving useless cookie cutter ideas.

The BEST self help book ever written

This book should be mandatory reading in every junior high school class in the country. Insightful, funny, and actual science to back it up. It simply makes sense! Thank you!

Good book

would like other narrator, it seemed like forcing some of the lines, not natural. But good book.

Best read/listen in ages! A def recommend for all!

Every human on this planet needs to read/ listen to this book! I've enjoyed every moment, acquired a ton of takeaways, and a new perspective on
"Good Advice" !
Loved it!
- A. Kate

Her colorful language

Finally, a self help book that tell it like it is without all the boring clinical bullshit. Dr. V does cover clinical and psychological aspects but she’s careful not drown you with medical terms causing you to loose interest. Instead she’s lively, creative and very sexy. She says things that we’re all thinking and you wouldn’t expect that kind of talk from a self help author or Doctor. It made me wanted more and it was the kick in the pants that I needed. I totally recommend this book. Actually, the audio, let her read it to you. Her excitement, enthusiasm and the way she says the “F” word held my curiosity captive. It doesn’t even sound bad when she drops the F bomb (which is a lot) lol. This book is light hearted and by making fun of all the cliches of bad advice, she actually giving you good advice in the process. I’m searching for more of Dr. V’s work.
Thank you,
Kevin G