Happy to Help is about how readers can be the one everyone else depends on and still be struggling―how you can be “happy to help,”  even when, for your own sake, you shouldn’t. When she started writing Happy to Help, she imagined a reader who was a lot like herself: a person who, despite their best efforts, had far more things on their to-do list than time to do them, and wasn’t sure what to do about that. When an overachiever becomes overwhelmed and asks for help, what that person usually receives back is advice: to do less, to lean in, to go with the flow, to stop making things harder than they need to be.  None of which, it turns out, is particularly helpful.

This isn’t a how-to book for slacking off or caring less. But the author hopes readers of this book will come to understand that being someone with too much to do doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you. And that when life becomes too much to handle, there just might be something that needs to be fixed besides yourself.

Amy Wilson is a writer, podcaster, and performer. She is the author of the memoir When Did I Get Like This? and her latest book, Happy to Help. Amy is also the co-host of the Webby-honored parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. She and co-host Margaret Ables have racked up over 11 million lifetime downloads and 800 episodes since the podcast’s launch in 2016 and regularly perform live shows for audiences around the country.

As an actor, Amy appeared on Broadway as “Sunny Freitag” in the Tony Award winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She was a series regular on the sitcoms Norm (ABC) and Daddio (NBC). Other TV guest appearances include Veep, Felicity, Blue Bloods, Unforgettable, Ed, Law and Order: CI, and Deadline. She wrote and performed sketch comedy for NBC’s Live on Tape, which filmed in Saturday Night Live’s famed Studio 8H. Amy is also the creator of Mother Load, a one-woman show which she toured to 16 cities after its hit off-Broadway run. Amy co-starred in and produced the off-Broadway adaptation of Rona Jaffe’s novel The Best of Everything, which was a New York Times and Time Out “Critics’ Pick” and was named one of the 10 Best Shows of 2012 by The Huffington Post.

Amy graduated from Yale University with a dual degree in English and Theater Studies. She lives with her family in New York City.