Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)

Jenny Lee was last on TBAS advising us on releasing psychic stress at the end of the day.  --- 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...

Sarah May hosts Help Me Be Me, an emotional toolkit for creating positive change in yourself.  Check out Zak's appearance on HMBM,  Making Positive Waves of Change In Your Life. Sarah was last on The Best Advice Show 4 years ago advising us on Expecting the Opposite.  --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Fill out...

DANN McDORMAN is the author of West Heart Kill and an Emmy-nominated TV news producer, who has also worked as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, and cabinet maker.  --- 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 --- C...

Diana Greene is a mother and  restaurant manager in Ohio.  Call me with your grandma advice at 844-935-BEST --- 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...

Jeanette Johnston (she/they) is an environmental educator and Director of the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee for NNOCCI, the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI), which trains communicators and educators to shift public discourse on climate change to be positive, community-minded, and solutions-focused.   Using Less with Anne Marie Bonne...

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...

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. --- Help Zak conti...

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.  --- 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/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2D...

 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.  --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best...

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.  --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming...

Phoebe McIndoe is a radio artist and host of Telling Stories. --- 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---Shar...

Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work! Here are Joan LeMay's Breakfast Decider Dice --- 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 @ 8...

Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled. --- 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.s...

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.  --- 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...

Shira Heisler is a physician, Zak's wife and the most frequent contributor to TBAS. SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA  SPLITTING WITH SHIRA SALTING WITH SHIRA CRITIQUING WITH SHIRA SHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRA PRACTICING RESTRAINT WITH SHIRA --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Fill out the TBAS listener survey...

Aaron Kaczander is a TV writer and photo archivist from Metro-Detroit living in Los Angeles  --- 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-mem...

Efdot is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and creative director. His practice extends beyond the studio to encompass collaborations, public murals, drawings, paintings, prints, animations & sculptures. Efdot's work has been showcased internationally, from North America to Asia, and has been featured in large public sites, galleries and commercial products. Past collaborations include institutions an...

Lucy Anderton is a poet living in France. --- 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...

Nick is the creator of Love + Radio and The Secrets Hotline which you can call @ 1-929-SECRETS (929-732-7387) More secret-centric advice from TBAS: Exorcise the Icky with adrienne maree brown --- 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.gl...

Erika Wright is a Codependency Counselor who is relentlessly passionate about up-leveling my life and supporting others to do the same. Nothing is more thrilling to me than helping people liberate themselves from the conditioning that perpetuates suffering in their lives. Learn more about her practice here. -- People Pleasing with Emily Naylor on The Best Advice Show --- Help Zak continue making t...

Olivia Shiller lives in Brooklyn and runs Two Clocks Jewelry.  If you DM her and tell her you heard her advice she'll give you a discount on her jewelry!  --- 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 t...

Elijah Silver is a queer and trans/nonbinary artist. They create beautiful handmade ceramic Judaica for ritual use and every day life. Find out more here. ACCESS CULT RECOVERY RESOURCES HERE --- 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...

When Eleanor got married, she took her husband’s last name. Now, nineteen years and three kids later, she’s working on a PhD. The PhD feels separate from her family life, something she’s doing just for herself. And so she’s started to wonder: Do I want to get this PhD under my married name? Or would it feel more ‘me’ to get it under my maiden name?  The Real Question is a show that holds space for...

Vanessa Zoltan is the host of The Real Question. She has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, an MS in Nonprofit Management from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. She is the CEO and Founder of Not Sorry Productions, which produces the podcasts Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Twilight in Quarantine, and Hot...

Joe Keohane first saw interaction with strangers as the son of a funeral director. He has since practised talking with strangers as a journalist who has written and edited many types of stories for publications including Esquire, New York magazine, Wired, the Boston Globe and New Republic. He has also been the executive editor of Entrepreneur magazine. The Power of Strangers is his first book.  Ra...