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!
Episodes
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May 20, 2020 • 2min
Cleaning Up with Judy Jelly
Judy is an environmentalist from Detroit, MI. So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 19, 2020 • 5min
Exorcising the Icky with adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy & Pleasure Activism and co-host of the podcast, How To Survive the End of the World. (Full disclosure: I produce that pod). So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 18, 2020 • 3min
Doing Dishes with Sam and Hannah
Sam Langberg is an emergency room doctor and Hannah Chalew, an artist, living in New Orleans. So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 15, 2020 • 3min
Spoon Feeding with Zoe Komarin
Zoe Komarin is an amazing chef. She lives on IG @ZoeFoodParty. Happy Food Friday!So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 14, 2020 • 4min
Memorializing the Day with Sara Brooke Curtis
Sara Brooke Curtis is a radio producer and artist living in Western Massachusetts.So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 13, 2020 • 4min
Restarting Your Day with Ken Haddad
Ken Haddad is the Digital Content Manager at WDIV and ClickonDetroit.comSo much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 12, 2020 • 8min
Making Black Gold with Leah Penniman
Leah Penniman is a farmer at Soul Fire Farm and the author of Farming While Black.
You can get a pound of Red Wiggler worms @ Uncle Jim's.And here's more on making your own composting systemSo much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 11, 2020 • 3min
Establishing Order with Shannon Cason
Shannon Cason is the host of Homemade Stories and In Good Co. Detroit.
Here's the blog post I mentioned by by Kevin Kelly - https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 8, 2020 • 4min
Sandwiching with Erin Allen
Welcome to another addition of Food Friday!
Erin Allen is an audio and event producer from Detroit. So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
May 7, 2020 • 3min
Tweaking Terminology with Richard Strausz
Richard Strausz is a retired high-school math teacher and math coordinator. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
---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
