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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!

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00:04:37

Everyone Needs to Cry with Courtney Daniels

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/16

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. SachsCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG

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00:05:42

Share a Deep, Dark Secret with adrienne maree brown

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/11

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 several published texts, cogenerator of a tarot deck and co-host of How To Survive the End of the

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00:03:42

Find a Constellation in your Backyard with Amanda...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/09

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 substances, how Motown mourned the sudden death of musician Michael Jackson, the economic and environmental

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00:04:54

How To Build Speed Bumps Into Your Day with Leticia...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/04

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 University Innovation Fellows Program and is an adjunct professor at the Stanford d.school. She is the author

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00:03:15

What Would You Do If You Were 10 Times Bolder? with...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/02

Bobby Dorigo Jones called the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Analyzing Envy with Gretchen RubinCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:08:00

Stop Bringing Your Phone To the Bathroom with Zoë...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/28

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 UdiSpoon Feeding with Zoë Edit Your Condiment Drawer with ZoëYou've Been Peeling Your Veggie Wrong with ZoëRepurposing Food with ZoëCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this

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00:03:13

Add These Two Mystery Foods To Your Next Meal

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/26

What's your best cooking advice? Tell Zak by calling at 844-935-BEST Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:03:30

Here's How To Access Your Deepest Creative Desire...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/21

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 College of Art), a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, a board member of

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00:09:52

You and the Bugs and the Birds are All Equal Parts of...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/19

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 in-person while musicians perform a live soundtrack. Green’s 2004 feature-length film, The Weather

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00:07:07

How Katie Crutchfield from Waxahatchee Learned to...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/14

Waxahatchee's new album, Tiger's Blood, comes out next week on Anti-RecordsCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:02:41

You Will Sleep Better Tonight After Hearing This...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/12

Lois Langberg gets her 8 hours from Metro Detroit. Falling Asleep with Karen SemoneCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:06:29

The Great Myth Between Libido and Desire with Rory...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/07

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 with the Los Angeles Film Festival. She’s the host and creator of the popular love and dating podcast

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00:03:19

When You're Feeling Stressed with Natalie

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/03/05

Natalie picks up trash near her home in Toronto, Canada.---Cleaning up with Judy JellyCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:07:56

How To Reconnect To Your Partner with Sex and...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/29

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. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:10:59

Slow Down and Look Closely with Claire Bown

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/27

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. ShShe is a huge fan of slow looking and have developed an approach to help both educators and their audiences engage with art and objects in museums called Visible Thinking in the Museum (VTM).---Rob Walker

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00:13:47

How To Take Psychedelics Safely and Profoundly with...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/22

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 psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and

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00:09:54

When You Have Everything, There's No Way To Make...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/20

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-thiesenFebruary 28 (Grand Rapids, MI): https://www.cafemamo.com/February 29 (Three Oaks, MI): https://granorfarm.com/dining/book---Tamar was an editor at Harper’s

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00:14:10

Floating Down the Career River with Bridget Thoreson

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/15

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 theoryCall Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

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00:08:12

Double-Down on Your Relationship with Jaye Johnson &...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/13

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 Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex, has been viewed 3.5 million times and is translated into 27

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00:11:36

The Mortal Mingle with Eef Barzelay: Did You Know...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/02/08

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 that, all these little miracles started happening.”---Roger Ebert's Wife, Chaz, on His Final Moments Call

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