Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)

Jan Worth Nelson and Ted Nelson are writers  and editors from Flint, MI. An Eschatological Laundry List: By Sheldon Kopp (1974) --- 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 @ 84...

Timm Chiusano makes charming and intimate daily films on social media. Check out his stuff!!!! GET YOUR BEST ADVICE SHOW MUG 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/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9 --- Call Zak on the advice show hotline...

Amiel Handelsman is the host of the new podcast How My View Grew in which he interviews nuanced thinkers about the origin stories of their big ideas. Each story offers a window into one of humanity’s greatest challenges like climate change, democracy, the culture wars, the wealth gap, Ukraine, and Israel. In weeks between interviews, Amiel offers tips for training your mind to navigate complex top...

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. --- The Generative Benefits of Investigating Your Shame with Heather Radke --- 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. ht...

Courtney Daniels is a writer-director. Her films are about marriage and the struggles of creative people. Her new series is about actors looking for love and work in LA called This F*%king Town. She was last on this show talking about taping your mouth shut. The Meaning of Truth by Nichole J. Sachs --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.c...

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of...

Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning host and producer at 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She’s a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, a former Morning Edition host at WDET, and a former host, audio and video producer, and reporter for Arizona Public Media. She’s reported on stories as diverse as the decriminalization and therapeutic research of psychedelic substa...

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Ph. D., is a scientist turned designer who has created and facilitated a wide range of learning experiences in design, creativity, and innovation at the Stanford d.school and beyond. Her creative methods include the use of emerging technologies to help people grow as self-directed, action-oriented, reflective, and responsible shapers of the future. She co-directs the Univ...

Bobby Dorigo Jones called the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Analyzing Envy with Gretchen Rubin --- 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...

Zoë Komarin is a chef, food curator, writer, artist and mom living in LA. Subscribe to her essential newsletter here. Peep her vast advice archive below! Turning on a Dime with Zoë and Udi Spoon Feeding with Zoë  Edit Your Condiment Drawer with Zoë You've Been Peeling Your Veggie Wrong with Zoë Repurposing Food with Zoë --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @...

What's your best cooking advice? Tell Zak by calling 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 him a voice-memo at ZAK@bestADVICE.show...

GET YOUR TICKETS TO WILL YOU MISS ME? --- Liza Bielby – Co-Director, The Hinterlands – works in the space between hyper-local and global cultural expression. She is a fastidious physical performer and a multi-disciplinary translator. She lives for a good laugh and loves great quantities of stuff. Liza is a former Fulbright Scholar, a student of the Sichuan Chuanju Academy (now Sichuan Vocational C...

Sam Green (Director | Writer | Editor) is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. His latest film is 32 Sounds. Green’s other recent live documentaries include A Thousand Thoughts (with the Kronos Quartet) (2018), The Measure of All Things (2014), The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (with Yo La Tengo) (2012), and Utopia in Four Movements (2010). With all of these works, Green narrates the film...

Waxahatchee's new album, Tiger's Blood, comes out next week on Anti-Records --- 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@bestADVI...

Lois Langberg gets her 8 hours from Metro Detroit.  Falling Asleep with Karen Semone --- 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...

Rory Uphold is the host of Crimes of the Heart Podcast. She's written/directed the viral web series’ “Only in HelLA” and “This Is Why We’re Single” and she’s sold shows to places like Elite Daily, Sony, Comedy Central, Endemol Shine, Crackle, and FX. Rory was one of the inaugural fellows in the Sundance Institutes “New Voices Lab” and voted top five in Funny or Die’s “Make Em LAFF” competition wit...

Natalie picks up trash near her home in Toronto, Canada. --- Cleaning up with Judy Jelly --- 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...

Leah Carey is a Sex and Intimacy Coach and the host of the podcast Good Girls Talk About Sex. She's frequently featured as a guest expert on podcasts and in print, including an appearance on the #1 rated sex and relationship advice show, The Savage Lovecast. --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Fill out the TBAS l...

Claire Bown is a UK born museum educator, trainer, facilitator and podcast host of The Art Engager where she share a variety of easy-to-learn flexible techniques and tools to help create participant-centred, inquiry-driven experiences that bring art and objects to life.based in the Netherlands. Sh She is a huge fan of slow looking and have developed an approach to help both educators and their aud...

Paul F. Austin is the founder and CEO of Third Wave. He's one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics, and is the author of Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life. As the founder of Third Wave and Psychedelic Coaching Institute, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psyc...

Tamar Adler is the Kitchen Shrink. Sign-up for her Substack today!  Tamar is the author of The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, Something Old, Something New and An Everlasting Meal. She's coming to Michigan later this month.  --- February 27 (Traverse City, MI): https://www.farmclubtc.com/events-1/tamar-alder-everlasting-meal-cookbook-talk-w-nic-thiesen February 28 (Grand Rapids, MI): https://www.cafema...

Bridget Thoreson is a journalist exploring collaboration, engagement and how to navigate a fulfilling career. Subscribe to her Substack! --- Rejecting the career ladder for a more fulfilling journey by Bridget Thoreson --- More on Frederick Herzberg's Two-Factor theory --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Fill out...

Jaye Johnson is a Peabody award-winning journalist, filmmaker, producer, and writer exploring the ways cultural expectations shape our public and private behavior. She is the founder and editor of The Pleasure Report, an online space that explores the intersection of politics, culture, and pleasure. As a TED Resident, she has been writing and speaking about sexuality and sense education. Her TED T...

The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to t...

Brenda Strausz, 74, of Southfield, Michigan, died on 29 January 2024. The Marianne Williamson passage from this episode is from 'A Return to Love.' --- 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 advi...