Zak Rosen

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)

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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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Zak Rosen

Episodes

On Demand Breathing with Sadie Lune 19.01.2022 4:43

Sadie Lune is a queer artist, parent and sex worker living in Berlin. --- Email a voice memo of your advice to Zak@bestadvice.show. --- Meditating Daily with Jen Rusciano --- 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 @ htt...

The Aftermath of the Love Method with Martin Luther King Jr. and Julia Putnam 17.01.2022 7:17

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a column for Ebony magazine from 1957-1958 called "Advice for Living." You can read all of them at The Martin Luther King, Jr Research and Education Institute. --- Julia Putnam is one of the co-founders of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit. --- TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I didn't learn this until the other day, but Martin Luther King Jr. Was an advice columnist for...

Sauce Wisdom with Evangeline Garreau and Na'Kyah 14.01.2022 4:47

Evangeline Garreau writes the Good Questions newsletter. She was last on the show talking about complimenting people. -- Not Leaving Home without Hot Sauce w/Na'Kyah -- 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...

Getting On with your Life with Nell Wulfhart 12.01.2022 8:38

Nell Wulfhart is a decision-coach @ DECIDE AND MOVE FORWARD --- Procrastinating Properly with Mason Curry --- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 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.pa...

Recalibrating with Lulu Miller 10.01.2022 7:59

Lulu Miller is the author of the book, Why Fish Don't Exist, a co-creator of Invisibilia and co-host of Radiolab. --- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 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...

Making Life Juicier with Noa 07.01.2022 5:22

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 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 --- F...

From A to C with Mark Pagán 05.01.2022 7:31

Mark Pagán hosts Other Men Need Help. He's an award-winning filmmaker, audio producer, writer, educator, and graying b-boy. --- More improv/life lessons can be heard in the TBAS episode - Following the Follower with Andy Eninger --- Call Zak on the advice hotline @ 844-935-BEST Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Help Zak continu...

How Are You Feeling About Everything? with Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur 03.01.2022 7:39

Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur founded Of a Kind, host the A Thing or Two podcast and wrote Work Wife: Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses. -- Finding Your Michigan Star with Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur -- What advice do you have for me!? Call me @ 844-935-BEST Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information....

22 practices for a delicious, joyful, hopeful, quiet, humble, supportive, uncomfortable and garlicky 2022 30.12.2021 28:23

Today's episode features advice from... Mark Bittman, Kelly Travis, Sylva Florence,Phoebe McIndoe, Beth Pickens, Meiko Krishok, Ronald Young Jr., Dave Leins,Brenden Murphy, Emily Naylor, Lindsey Maddin, Josh Ruben,Grethen Rubin, Marlee Grace,Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards), Nichole Christian, Alex Elle, Sua Im, Mia Birdsong, Janice Fialka-Feldman, Jacqueline Raposo, Drew Philp --- Call Zak on the hotl...

INTRODUCING: The World According to Sound 19.12.2021 19:30

The World According to Sound is created by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff. -- Every Thursday evening starting in January 2022, Chris and Sam are going to live stream spatialized audio straight to the headphones of people listening together, all around the world. Attendees will be mailed an eye mask and listening instructions for how to tune in to a program made by radio producers, musicians, and soun...

A Pot of Something with Julia Turshen 17.12.2021 6:06

Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. Her latest cookbook, Simply Julia, a National Bestseller, is available wherever books are sold. She also hosts and produces the IACP-nominated podcast called ‘Keep Calm and Cook On.’ Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and their pets. She teaches cooking classes most Sunday afternoons. -- Call Zak with your advice at 844-935...

Excising Passion from Work with Jeannie Yandel 15.12.2021 9:44

Jeannie Yandel co-hosts Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace -- Let me know what you think of this advice! I live @bestadviceshow on IG. -- related advice: ABIDING WITH JAY ALLISON 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/bestadvices...

Getting Vaccinated with Dr. Mo Connolly 13.12.2021 3:50

Mo is a pediatrician and Medical Director of Henry Ford Health System's School-Based and Community Health Program. -- What's your favorite advice of the year? Let me know at Zak@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/...

Ordering Pizza with David Gluckman 10.12.2021 7:48

David Gluckman eats pizza and other foods outside Denver, Colorado. He stars in this old radio story I made about puberty and dancing. -- Call Zak with your Food Friday advice @ 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/b...

Looking Outward with Erika Fur and Andy Nickelhoff 08.12.2021 6:11

Erika Fur works in education supporting nurturing and de-pathologizing children with learning differences. Andy Nickelhoff is a labor lawyer in Detroit. -- To join The Best Advice Show Power Club, email zak at ZAK @ BESTADVICE.SHOW -- For more advice on making small (or large) talk, check out Talking to Strangers with Joe Keohane Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.c...

Avoiding Burnout with Dr. Sharon Grossman 06.12.2021 7:26

Dr. Sharon Grossman is the founder of the Exhausted to Extraordinary™ Method, a 3-step method to unblock your mind, reshape your thinking, and return the joy to your work in 90 days. As a psychologist, coach, and author of the international bestseller, The 7E Solution to Burnout. -- Are you exhausted at work? Wish you could avoid burnout or at least prevent it from repeating? Register for Dr. Shar...

Pre-Heating the Oven with April Baer 03.12.2021 5:03

April Baer is the host of Stateside on Michigan Radio. Call Zak with your advice 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 help Zak get to know you better. https://f...

Giving and Receiving Gifts with Erin Bicknese 01.12.2021 5:08

Erin Bicknese is a professional home organizer. She was last on the show talking about International Tell Your Crush Day. Hear that episode here. Call me on the advice hotline 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/bes...

Speaking of Race with Celeste Headlee 29.11.2021 13:36

CELESTE HEADLEE is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and the author of Speaking of Race, We Need To Talk and Do Nothing. -Celeste's TED Talk, 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation-Call Zak with your advice 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 Adv...

Avoiding Empty Celebration Syndrome with Jenny Rosenstrach 24.11.2021 6:40

Jenny Rosenstrach is a food writer and New York Times bestselling cookbook author of Dinner: A Love Story, The Weekday Vegetarians and How To Celebrate Everything among others. She also authors the Dinner: A Love Story blog and newsletter. -- You can listen to a longer interview I did with Jenny on the Mom and Dad Are Fighting Podcast this week. -- Record your family history with help from StoryCo...

Night Walking with Bianca Giaever 22.11.2021 6:37

Bianca Giaever is the creator and host of the podcast Constellation Prize, distributed by The Believer Magazine. She currently works as a producer on The New York Times audio team. Her film, radio, and print stories have appeared on This American Life, Radiolab, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Believer Magazine, and the TED conference. --- CALL ZAK WITH YOUR ADVICE AT 844-935-BEST Our GDP...

Slowing Down to Speed Up with Dan Charnas 19.11.2021 7:38

Dan Charnas is the author of Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind. -- To join The Best Advice Show Power Hour Club email me at ZAK@BESTADVICE.SHOW and I'll send you an invite! 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...

Turning on a Dime with ZUDI (Zoe and Udi) 15.11.2021 7:18

Zoë Komarin cooks @ ZOEFOODPARTY. Udi Assaf leads @UDITECHPARTY - Call Zak with your advice at 844-935-BEST- EDITING YOUR FRIDGE WITH ZOE - SPOON FEEDING WITH ZOE - REPURPOSING FOOD WITH ZOE 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/besta...

Finding Your Michigan Star with Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur 12.11.2021 8:59

Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur founded Of a Kind, host the A Thing or Two podcast and wrote Work Wife: Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses. -- Zak first heard about Michigan Stars in Ann Friedman's essential newsletter. -- Call Zak with your advice at 844-935-BEST Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information...

Turning Into Worms with Arman Assadi 10.11.2021 5:30

Arman Assadi is the founder and CEO of Steno, a stealth A.I. startup, host of the FLOW with Arman Assadi podcast, and co-founder and CEO of Project EVO. -- The Life and Works of Alan Watts -- Call Zak with your advice 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...