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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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00:03:00

Do it Scared with Patricia Elzie-Tuttle

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/25

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. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @

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00:05:14

When Everything Else Feels Awry with Phoebe McIndoe

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/20

Phoebe McIndoe is a radio artist and host of Telling Stories.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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00:08:03

A Quick Way To Get Over Indecision with Emma Martin

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/18

Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work!Here are Joan LeMay's Breakfast Decider DiceCall 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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00:07:52

Ask This Question To Find The Best Local Food When...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/13

Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled.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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00:03:18

Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 3 with Sara Brooke Curtis

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/11

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. 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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00:06:53

Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 2 with Shira Heisler

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/06

Shira Heisler is a physician, Zak's wife and the most frequent contributor to TBAS.SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA SPLITTING WITH SHIRASALTING WITH SHIRACRITIQUING WITH SHIRASHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRAPRACTICING RESTRAINT WITH SHIRACall 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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00:08:46

Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 1 with Aaron Kaczander

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/06/04

Aaron Kaczander is a TV writer and photo archivist from Metro-Detroit living in Los Angeles 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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00:04:04

Chart Your Path From Then to Now with Efdot

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/30

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 and fellow artists, brands like Nike, Adobe, Apple, and Coca-Cola, and for entities like Hypebeast, the New

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00:08:18

You Should Buy Mice and Other Weird, Transformative...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/28

Lucy Anderton is a poet living in France. 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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00:08:00

Share Your Secrets with Nick van der Kolk

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/23

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 brownCall 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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00:16:40

Begin to Consider That Your Feelings Are Not an...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/21

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 Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @

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00:03:57

A Death Bed Letter To Yourself with Olivia Shiller

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/16

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! 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

If You Think You're In a Cult, You Probably Are with...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/14

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 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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00:25:00

Introducing...Should I Quit?

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/09

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 life’s tough questions. This season, they're looking specifically at questions of quitting. When is it

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00:07:24

When Should You Quit? with Vanessa Zoltan

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/07

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 & Bothered. She also runs pilgrimages and walking tours exploring sacred reading and writing. Call Zak

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00:07:42

A Meaningful Interaction with Strangers with Joe...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/05/02

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. Raven called The Best Advice Show Hotline to offer her advice at 844-935-BESTCall Zak on the advice show

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00:06:49

You Can't Make Anyone Love You and Some More Partial...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/30

Jan Worth Nelson and Ted Nelson are writers and editors from Flint, MI.An Eschatological Laundry List: By Sheldon Kopp (1974) 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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00:08:49

Stop Stressing Out About Tomorrow By Doing This Today...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/25

Timm Chiusano makes charming and intimate daily films on social media. Check out his stuff!!!!GET YOUR BEST ADVICE SHOW MUG HERE! 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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00:08:37

Act Like You Don't Know What's Going On with Amiel...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/23

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 topics and difficult conversations. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Wanna help Zak

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00:09:55

Facing the Truth Leads You Somewhere with Tamara...

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) ·

2024/04/18

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 RadkeCall 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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