Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)

Dr. Erika Bocknek (https://www.instagram.com/drerikaconvo/) is a university professor, family therapist, and mom of 3. She holds a master’s degree in Couples and Family Therapy, a doctorate in Child Development, and two postdoctoral fellowships in Child Psychiatry and Infant Mental Health. She is the Associate Editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal and serves on the editorial boards of Adversi...

Laura Cathcart Robbins' STASH: MY LIFE IN HIDING is a propulsive and vivid memoir about how one woman abandoned herself for too many years and how she voluntarily built walls that separated her from everyone, most tragically from herself. With each flip of the page, Laura invites us on her journey to sobriety and self-love amidst addiction, privilege, racism, and self-sabotage. It’s a story worth...

Eric Silver is Head of Creative @ Multitude and host/producer of Games and Feelings. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow ---...

Liz Alpern is passionate about reimagining tradition and bringing people together. Liz is co-founder of The Gefilteria and co-author of The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. She is also the creator of Queer Soup Night, a global event series highlighting the talent of queer chefs and raising tens of thousands of dollars for locally-based social justice organizations. ---Sup...

To help me make the next 500 episodes become a TBAS patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- You heard excerpts of Admit When You Don't Know with Merrill Garbus, Let Your Voice Break with Abigail Bengson and Tape Your Mouth with Kelly Travis---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show  --- Help Zak continue making t...

Jonathan Fields—the Good Life Guy—delivers insights that spark purpose, possibility, and potential. On a decades-long quest to discover what makes people come fully alive, Jonathan is an award-winning author, Webby-nominated producer, business innovator, and host of one of the world’s top podcasts, Good Life Project. The Wall Street Journal named Good Life Project one of the top self-development p...

Laura Weber Davis is the Executive Producer of Stateside. Laura is an audiophile with a public radio habit, a dusty-record music head with a crate-digger’s heart, a toddler wrangler, a beach goer, a Jane Austen lover, a horseback rider, a dog walker, and an active listener who loves to hear and tell a good story. Whatever she is doing at this very moment, she’d rather be listening to showtunes. --...

Artist, singer, actor, ritual builder, Abigail Bengson, is one-half of The Bengsons ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow ---...

Victor Varnado (born May 15, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is African American and albinistic. He was born legally blind due to his albinism. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. This bio is culled from his Wikipedia page to make you aware that he and co-host, Rachel Teichman, read another Wikipedia page on their podcast, WikiListen. H...

Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and actor. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with the drama film Away from Her in 2006. Polley received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, which she adapted from the Alice Munro story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Her other projects include the documentary film Stories We Tell (2012)...

Arielle Nissenblatt has been working in the podcast space since early 2017 when she started a podcast recommendation newsletter called EarBuds Podcast Collective. Since then, she's managed podcast studios, worked as an in-app curator, gone to school for audio production, produced several podcasts, run successful marketing and PR campaigns for several dozen shows, have organized podcast communities...

Zoë Komarin is an artist and food curator @ZoeFoodParty. She authors the can't miss newsletter NAP SNACKS which you should subscribe to here.  Listen here to discover why Zoë thinks you should eat your salads with a spoon.  ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacha...

Tad Davis is an artist living in Detroit.  ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show --- 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...

Jason Feifer is editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine and hosts Build For Tomorrow. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow -...

Erin Bevel is a Co-Founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund and Board Member at Detroit Black Community Food Security Network --- So much of this show originates 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 int...

Celeste Headlee is an internationally recognized journalist and radio host, professional speaker and author of bestselling book We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Speaking of Race: Why Everyone Needs to Talk About Racism and How to Do It, and You’re Cute When You’re Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Se...

Elisa Stancil Levine is the Founder of Stancil Studios and author of This or Something Better --- More procrastination advice with Mason Currey ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show  --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Adv...

Rachel Teichman is a producer,  host of WikiListen, and social worker. Rachel worked as a producer on the comedy special Christian Finnegan: Show Your Work, as well filming behind the scenes footage for Bring Back Laughs, a celebrity charity special premiering in 2022. Rachel produces The Original NYC Talent Show.  ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow--...

Cyndie Spiegel is the author of Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay.  She currently lives in New Jersey with her (very handsome) photographer husband, two cats, way too many patterns, and an excessive number of houseplants. She is the founder of Dear Grown Ass Women, an inclusive and highly relatable social community for women 35+, and she is also the author of A Year of Pos...

On the podcast Degrees: Real Talk About Planet Saving Careers Yesh Pavlik Slenk talks with everyone from storytellers to songwriters, city leaders to sustainability gurus and former White House staffers about their paths to solving the world’s biggest problems. Our guests share how they got where they are, so others (like you) can follow in their footsteps and join their changemaker ranks. --- Exc...

Carmen Rita Wong is the author of the memoir, Why Didn't You Tell Me? She was the co-creator and television host of On the Money on CNBC and was a national advice columnist for Glamour, Latina, Men’s Health, and Good Housekeeping. Wong is the author of a series of novels and two bestselling advice books. She is the founder and CEO of Malecon Productions, LLC, where she develops female-focused medi...

Alexis Haselberger helps people do more and stress less! Learn more about her coaching practice here.  ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/...

Rebecca Lehrer is the co-founder and CEO of The Mash-Up Americans. She has spent 18+ years doing strategy, marketing, and audience development in media, arts, and culture (Director of BD at New York Public Radio, The Flea Theater, Headlands Center for the Arts, Righteous Persons Foundation) and has over 12 years experience in audio and podcasting. Her work focuses on the shared cultural experience...

Amy Choi is co-founder and editorial director of The Mash-Up Americans. A Korean-American married to a Colombian-Mexican-American, she is mom to two feisty Korombexican-Americans: in other words, The Future of America.  LISTEN TO GRIEF, COLLECTED FROM THE MASH-UP AMERICANS! ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER...

Shara Nova, a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling, shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond, has always felt like an outsider.  Over the course of many albums, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop, and chamber music into a sound totally her own.  SIGN UP FOR SHARA'S NEWSLETTER HERE! ---Support TBAS by b...