

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Zak Rosen
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) is a short, weekly infusion of delightful, unexpected and strange ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. In each episode a different contributor offers an odd experiment, a silly ritual, a curious practice that you’ll find weirdly helpful. Stuff like howling when you're despondent, eating oranges in the shower and metaphorically flushing your adversary down the toilet!
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Mar 28, 2024 • 9min
Stop Bringing Your Phone To the Bathroom with Zoë Komarin
Zoë Komarin is a chef, food curator, writer, artist and mom living in LA. Subscribe to her essential newsletter here. Peep her vast advice archive below!Turning on a Dime with Zoë and UdiSpoon Feeding with Zoë Edit Your Condiment Drawer with ZoëYou've Been Peeling Your Veggie Wrong with ZoëRepurposing Food with Zoë
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Mar 26, 2024 • 4min
Add These Two Mystery Foods To Your Next Meal
What's your best cooking advice? Tell Zak by calling at 844-935-BEST
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Mar 21, 2024 • 4min
Here's How To Access Your Deepest Creative Desire with Liza Bielby
GET YOUR TICKETS TO WILL YOU MISS ME?---Liza Bielby – Co-Director, The Hinterlands – works in the space between hyper-local and global cultural expression. She is a fastidious physical performer and a multi-disciplinary translator. She lives for a good laugh and loves great quantities of stuff. Liza is a former Fulbright Scholar, a student of the Sichuan Chuanju Academy (now Sichuan Vocational College of Art), a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, a board member of the Bangla School of Music, and a professor of movement at Wayne State University Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance.
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Mar 19, 2024 • 11min
You and the Bugs and the Birds are All Equal Parts of This Constellation of Life on Earth with Sam Green
Sam Green (Director | Writer | Editor) is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. His latest film is 32 Sounds. Green’s other recent live documentaries include A Thousand Thoughts (with the Kronos Quartet) (2018), The Measure of All Things (2014), The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (with Yo La Tengo) (2012), and Utopia in Four Movements (2010). With all of these works, Green narrates the film in-person while musicians perform a live soundtrack. Green’s 2004 feature-length film, The Weather Underground, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Academy Award, was included in the Whitney Biennial, and has screened widely around the world. Learn more about Sam: https://samgreen.to/---Learning to Listen with Annea Lockwood by Sam Green
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Mar 14, 2024 • 8min
How Katie Crutchfield from Waxahatchee Learned to Slow Down
Waxahatchee's new album, Tiger's Blood, comes out next week on Anti-Records
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Mar 12, 2024 • 3min
You Will Sleep Better Tonight After Hearing This Advice with Lois Langberg
Lois Langberg gets her 8 hours from Metro Detroit. Falling Asleep with Karen Semone
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Mar 7, 2024 • 7min
The Great Myth Between Libido and Desire with Rory Uphold
Rory Uphold is the host of Crimes of the Heart Podcast. She's written/directed the viral web series’ “Only in HelLA” and “This Is Why We’re Single” and she’s sold shows to places like Elite Daily, Sony, Comedy Central, Endemol Shine, Crackle, and FX. Rory was one of the inaugural fellows in the Sundance Institutes “New Voices Lab” and voted top five in Funny or Die’s “Make Em LAFF” competition with the Los Angeles Film Festival. She’s the host and creator of the popular love and dating podcast CRIMES OF THE HEART where she normalizes the everyday struggles and taboos of modern love. When Rory isn’t thriving through awkward social situations she’s making Tiktoks and trying to find her future ex-husband.
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Mar 5, 2024 • 4min
When You're Feeling Stressed with Natalie
Natalie picks up trash near her home in Toronto, Canada.---Cleaning up with Judy Jelly
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Feb 29, 2024 • 9min
How To Reconnect To Your Partner with Sex and Intimacy Coach Leah Carey
Leah Carey is a Sex and Intimacy Coach and the host of the podcast Good Girls Talk About Sex. She's frequently featured as a guest expert on podcasts and in print, including an appearance on the #1 rated sex and relationship advice show, The Savage Lovecast.
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Feb 27, 2024 • 12min
Slow Down and Look Closely with Claire Bown
Claire Bown is a UK born museum educator, trainer, facilitator and podcast host of The Art Engager where she share a variety of easy-to-learn flexible techniques and tools to help create participant-centred, inquiry-driven experiences that bring art and objects to life.based in the Netherlands. ShShe is a huge fan of slow looking and have developed an approach to help both educators and their audiences engage with art and objects in museums called Visible Thinking in the Museum (VTM).---Rob Walker on the Art of Noticing
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