

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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Oct 6, 2022 • 8min
You Don't Always Have to Be Resilient with Morgan Harper Nichols
Morgan Harper Nichols is an artist, poet, and musician. Her work is inspired by stories, conversations, and every day. She hosts the Morgan Harper Nichols Show, part of the Co-Loop Podcast Network. ---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 4, 2022 • 7min
Notice How You Feel with Morgan Harper Nichols
Morgan Harper Nichols is an artist, poet, and musician. Her work is inspired by stories, conversations, and every day. She hosts the Morgan Harper Nichols Show, part of the Co-Loop Podcast Network. ---Aiming at Meh with Brian Selfon---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 29, 2022 • 13min
There's Always Someone Cooler Than You with Fabiola Lara
Fabiola Lara is a Chilean-born, Florida-raised artist! She lives in flux of feeling simultaneously too American to be Chilean and too Chilean to be American, and is constantly navigating her identity as a white Latinx and recent US-citizen. Her podcast is Draws in Spanish. ---The Best Advice Show is the newest member of the CO-LOOP PODCAST NETWORK!!!!!!!!---The new TBAS cover art comes from the brilliant minds and pens of Morgan Harper Nichols and Cymone Wilder. ----Call me with your advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 27, 2022 • 6min
The Opportunity for Renewal with Rabbi Yoni Dahlen
Rabbi Yoni Dahlen is the Motorcity Rabbi on TikTok. He grew up on the prairies of northern Iowa, fell in love with Jewish thought and philosophy in college on the plains of South Dakota, and deepened his commitment to text, tradition, ritual and history at Brandeis University and at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City (with a couple of years in Italy and Israel along the way). He lives in Metro Detroit.---The Shehecheyanu Blessing---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 22, 2022 • 7min
The Mood-Lifting Power of Rose with Bita
Bita writes and podcasts about modern Persian recipes @ovenhug and on the Modern Persian Food Podcast.---Medicinal Properties of Persian Spices with Dr. Mahtab Jafari---The Best Sleep of Your Life with Courtney Daniels---Sharing from a Deep Well of Knowledge with Dan Messé ---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 20, 2022 • 5min
Transcending Internet Trolls with Lucy Huber
Lucy Huber is an editor at McSweeneys and a freelance writer. Check our her hilarious piece from The New Yorker, Circumstances in Which I Will Not Pet Your Dog---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 15, 2022 • 4min
When You're There, Do the Thing! with Todd Henion
Todd Henion is a pilot, teacher and father from Portland, Oregon.---CALL THE ADVICE SHOW HOTLINE @ 844-935-BEST
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 13, 2022 • 7min
Sharing from a Deep Well of Knowledge with Daniel Messé
Daniel Messé is the founder and principal songwriter of the band Hem. Along with Craig Lucas (book) and Nathan Tysen (co-lyrics), Daniel wrote the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of the French film Amélie, which debuted on Broadway in 2017. He is also working together again with Craig Lucas (book) along with Sean Hartley (co-lyrics) on adapting Craig’s play, Prelude to a Kiss, for South Coast Rep. Education includes a BA from Carleton College and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.---Sister Wendy's American Collection---Mike Mills' advice from TBAS: Loving Anything---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.show---twitter: @muzacharyIG: @bestadviceshow
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 8, 2022 • 9min
Relationship Tripping with Jaye Johnson and Joe Richman
Jaye Johnson is a Peabody award-winning journalist, filmmaker, producer, and writer exploring the ways cultural expectations shape our public and private behavior. She is the founder and editor of The Pleasure Report, an online space that explores the intersection of politics, culture, and pleasure. As a TED Resident, she has been writing and speaking about sexuality and sense education. Her TED Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex, has been viewed 3.5 million times and is translated into 27 languages.Joe Richman is the founder of Radio Diaries, a Peabody award-winning producer and reporter whose pioneering series Teenage Diaries brought the voices of teenagers to a national audience on NPR’s All Things Considered. Before founding Radio Diaries, he worked on the NPR programs All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday, Car Talk, and Heat. Joe also teaches radio documentary at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The LA Times called Joe “a kind of Studs Terkel of the airwaves.”TAKE A RELATIONSHIP TRIP---Being Close with Michael Franti---Call Zak with your relationship advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak's twitter: @muzachary
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 6, 2022 • 8min
Playing the Infinite Game with Billy Oppenheimer
Billy Oppenheimer is a writer and research assistant to Ryan Holiday based in Austin, TX. Every Sunday at 6 AM (CT) Billy sends out an email with SIX things he's learned, thought were interesting, or found useful. SUBSCRIBE HERE. ---COMEDIAN - A look at the work of two stand-up comics, Jerry Seinfeld and a lesser-known newcomer, detailing the effort and frustration behind putting together a successful act and career while living a life on the road.---Hasan Minaj on the Gary Vee Audio Experience ---LEAVE ZAK YOUR ADVICE @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow
---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or email him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


