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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Jul 9, 2024 • 8min
Stop Asking for Permission to Make Your Dreams Come True with The Skiptown All-Stars
After 25 years in the City of Angels, Denise and James Gordon sold their house and hit the road to find a new hometown. On their podcast, The Skiptown All-Stars Travel Podcast, they break down each city and every restaurant, Air BnB and tourist trap we encounter along the way. We're not RV people, but we've got over 50 towns and 50,000 miles under our belt so it's only a matter of time until we're your new neighbors!
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Jul 4, 2024 • 6min
How To Question Your Assumptions and Live a Fuller Life with Dr. Susie Wise
Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She's the author of Design for Belonging and she coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design.
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Jul 2, 2024 • 9min
The Most Effective Way To Find Your Next Job with Liz Horowitz
Liz Horowitz runs Sonic Strategy Consulting where she helps audio first companies to amplify profitably. ---LISTEN TO floating down the career river with Bridget Thoreson.
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Jun 27, 2024 • 19min
Practical Advice for Cooking as Caregiving with Julia Turshen
Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a weekly newsletter and teaches cooking classes most Sunday afternoons. Her newest cookbook, What Goes with What, will be out in October 2024.Subscribe to Julia's newsletter, Keep Calm & Cook On HERE. Today's episode is based on this installment of the newsletter.
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Jun 25, 2024 • 4min
Do it Scared with Patricia Elzie-Tuttle
Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (aka Patricia Elzie) is a writer, podcaster, and librarian. She hosts the podcast Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice and a weekly newsletter of the same name which offers self-improvement and mental health advice and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world.
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Jun 20, 2024 • 6min
When Everything Else Feels Awry with Phoebe McIndoe
Phoebe McIndoe is a radio artist and host of Telling Stories.
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Jun 18, 2024 • 9min
A Quick Way To Get Over Indecision with Emma Martin
Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work!Here are Joan LeMay's Breakfast Decider Dice
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Jun 13, 2024 • 9min
Ask This Question To Find The Best Local Food When You're Traveling with Annie Sim
Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled.
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Jun 11, 2024 • 4min
Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 3 with Sara Brooke Curtis
Sara Brooke Curtis is an artist and audio producer from Western Massachusetts. She was last on the show to give advice about how to not keep checking your email.
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Jun 6, 2024 • 8min
Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 2 with Shira Heisler
Shira Heisler is a physician, Zak's wife and the most frequent contributor to TBAS.SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA SPLITTING WITH SHIRASALTING WITH SHIRACRITIQUING WITH SHIRASHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRAPRACTICING RESTRAINT WITH SHIRA
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