Zak Rosen

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)

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!

Author

Zak Rosen

Category

Education

Podcast website

weirdlyhelpful.show

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Tell Me About My Lawn with Tod Perry 07.07.2022

Tod Perry co-hosts and produces the UpWorthy Weekly podcast. He's one of Upworthy’s most prolific writers and has a long history in podcasting including the hit show What’s This Tao All About? --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Z...

Best of the Best: Alex Guarnaschelli 30.06.2022

Alex Guarnaschelli is a mother, chef, TV host, and native New Yorker. --- What's your best food/life advice? Let Zak know at 844-935-BEST 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 he...

Best of the Best Advice: Loving Anything with Mike Mills 28.06.2022

Mike Mills is a filmmaker and the writer/director of C'mon C'mon. --- In this episode Mike references Patti Smith, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Eric Satie, Édouard Manet, The Clash, IDLES. --- The movie Zak talks about is Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST--- IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy poli...

Best of the Best: Say the Nice Thing! with Shira and Evangeline 23.06.2022

Evangeline Garreau writes the Good Questions newsletter. Read it! Shira Heisler is a physician and complimenter. --- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST 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 t...

Best of the Best Advice: Creation with Shirley Woodson 21.06.2022

Shirley Woodson is an artist and educator. She's the 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist. Her solo show, Why Do I Delight is up at the Detroit Artists Market through 10/23. You can download or purchase the new Shirley Woodson monograph, here. --- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Za...

Best of the Best Advice: Starting and Finishing with Erica Heilman 16.06.2022

Erica Heilman (@rumblestripvt) is the host of the podcast, Rumble Strip. --- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST 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...

Best of the Best Advice: Peeling Grapes with Noa 14.06.2022

Noa eats fruit from her home in Detroit, MI. --- Morning Zesting with Drew Philp --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 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 Ad...

Essential Advice from Recent Middle-School Graduates 09.06.2022

Naja, Sebastian, Asia, Jessica, Lenzia and Zora are recent graduates of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit. Hear their advice on today's graduation special! --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak continue making this...

How to achieve easy umami flavors with Dr. Michael Strausz 07.06.2022

Michael Strausz is a dad, cook and professor living in Texas. He's the author of Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan. You can hear his past food-centric advice here and here. --- Leave Zak your cooking advice for Zak by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information....

Your Summer Vacation with Dr. Susie Wise 02.06.2022

For years designer and Stanford d.school educator, Dr. Susie Wise, has coached overwhelmed school and community leaders across the country who didn't know where to start. She uses the classical tools of design to approach belonging in a whole new way. The tools in Design for Belonging help bridge the gap between the logistical planning of your office meeting or organizational restructure and the w...

Real Estate & Heartbreak with Gina Pensiero 31.05.2022

Gina Pensiero is a parent, musician and writer living in Brooklyn --- All Split Up and Nowhere to Go By Bridget Read --- Feeling Through with Amy Dallas --- What's the best advice you've ever heard? Call me@844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak continue making this...

Words are Windows with Stevon Lewis 26.05.2022

Stevon Lewis is a licensed psychotherapist, speaker, author, and host of the podcast, How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show 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 P...

Anne Kadet Wears the Same Thing Everyday 25.05.2022

Anne Kadet is a journalist and writer of the newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE where you can read about The Naked Cowboy's Morning Routine. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show 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 Patro...

Someone You Used to Be with Anne Kadet 24.05.2022

Anne Kadet is a journalist and writer of the newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show 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...

Looking After Yourself with Martha Lawton 19.05.2022

Martha Lawton is a financial coach and host of Squanderlust, a podcast about the emotional side of money, why our actions aren't always as good as our intentions and what we can do about it. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak...

Do Look Up with Rob Walker 17.05.2022

Rob Walker is the author of the book, The Art of Noticing and the wonderful newsletter of the same name. Subscribe for free here! --- Elevating the Mundane with Teri Turner --- HOW DO YOU ELEVATE THE MUNDNE? TELL ME AT 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak continue...

Showing Up Makes a Huge Difference with Dr. Annalisa Enrile 12.05.2022

Dr. Annalisa Enrile is a Clinical Professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, turning classrooms into brave spaces to train the next generation of change-makers. She's the host of the new podcast, Goodniks. --- Asking for Help with Emma Fialka-Feldman --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was upda...

How To Choose Among All the Problems that Need Our Attention with Jeff Leitner 10.05.2022

Jeff Leitner is a social innovator who works with governments, institutions, foundations, corporations, and NGOs to solve problems that matter. His new podcast is Goodniks. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak continue making t...

Owen Raun is Running Late 05.05.2022

Owen Raun is a residential mortgage lender in Houston. --- Being Late with Meredith Nicoll --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show 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/bestadvic...

Rachel Jacobson Tries to Act Like She's on Vacation All the Time 03.05.2022

Rachel Jacobson helps people deal with climate impacts across North America. --- Practicing Freedom with Amanda Alexander --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show 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 @ ht...

A Rainbow Squared with Ilyse Iris 28.04.2022

ilyse iris magy is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work positions daily life as a site of creation, documenting and engineering experiences that interrogate and elevate the ordinary. Her social practice engages the would-be audience as co-creators through playful public interventions and participatory events, while her personal practice documents and expands artmaking as performance...

Rehearsing your Future with Bob Doyle 26.04.2022

Bob Doyle is best known for his contribution to the film and book “The Secret”, as a law of attraction expert and coach. Recently, Bob’s attention has shifted from the metaphysical aspects of the Law of Attraction or “reality creation” process, to a more grounded and biological look at what controls our experiences, our brain. You can take his "Evolve Your Excellence" challenge here. --- Leave Zak...

Earth Day with Tamara Lindemen from The Weather Station 21.04.2022

Tamara Lindeman is a musician from the band, The Weather Station. Their latest album is HOW IS IT THAT I SHOULD LOOK AT THE STARS. --- INVESTIGATING YOUR SHAME WITH HEATHER RADKE --- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST ---- Instagram Facebook Twitter Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak continue making this...

Are you too high? Ellen Scanlon is here to help. 19.04.2022

As the host of How to Do the Pot, you’ll find Ellen Lee Scanlon behind the mic, interviewing diverse, modern women about their remarkable experiences with cannabis, recommending the essential strains for women, and sharing the latest research on the psychological and physical benefits of the plant. --- Facing Your Fears with Michael Porter Jr. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST ---...

The Sweatpants Gospel with Sandy Danto 14.04.2022

Sandy Danto is a stand-up comedian and actor based in Hollywood, CA. He can be seen on episodes of MAD TV, National Lampoon shorts, and is a regular at the Comedy Store. His album is called Daddy Boy. LISTEN HERE. --- Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST --- IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more in...

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