

The Best Advice Show
Zak Rosen
The Best Advice Show is your reminder that there are weird, delightful and effective ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. In every (very short) episode of the show, a different contributor offers their take on making life more joyful, healthful and livable and it's likely gonna be something you can try today, if you want.
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Aug 20, 2025 • 14min
When There Might Not Be a Solution with Dr. Chioke I'Anson
Dr. Chioke I'Anson is the visionary force behind the establishment of the VPM + ICA Community Media Center, an innovative collaboration between Virginia Public Media and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. He's also the founder of RESONATE Podcast Festival
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Aug 13, 2025 • 8min
How To Plant a Garden with Limited Space and Time with Alice Bagley
Alice Bagley is a farmer, biker and time banker based in Detroit. She was last on the show. Don't miss her episode from 5 years ago on the joyus virtues of throwing seeds!
Courtney Daniels is a filmamker and author based in LA. Her new podcast is called Gen X at Midlife, where she talks to people about their experience of life after 50. Subscribe wherever you listen to TBAS! She was last on the show discussing the importance of a good cry.
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Aug 6, 2025 • 9min
Begin Your Day with Discomfort
Teresa Gretsen and Naomi Kreitman are friends based in Amsterdam who love to swim.
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Jul 30, 2025 • 12min
Two Strategies to Look at Your Phone Less and the World Around You More with Daphne Silbiger
Daphne Silbiger is a playwright, musician, and collage artist based in Brooklyn currently teaching at The School of Making Thinking.You can see all the course offerings @ The School of Making Thinking @ https://www.theschoolofmakingthinking.com/
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Jul 23, 2025 • 8min
Never Change Your Clothes with Anne Kadet
What advice from this show do you use in your life? Call Zak and let him know at 844-935-BEST. Thanks!---CAFÉ ANNE is a weekly newsletter with a focus on New York City that takes a fresh look at the everyday, delights in the absurd and profiles unusual folks who do things their way.It is created and written by Brooklyn journalist Anne Kadet, former NYC business and trends columnist for the Wall Street Journal and NYC startups columnist for Crains’ New York Business.
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Jul 16, 2025 • 10min
Become the Animal You Are with Morrison Gong
Sign up for Morrison's online class, EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: PHOTOGRAPHY & DIARISTIC WRITING at The School of Making of Thinking. MORE INFO HERE @ https://www.theschoolofmakingthinking.com/private-eros.html---Morrison Gong is a Chinese photographer with a background in performance and experimental filmmaking. They invoke the body as a site of haunting, wounding, conjuring and mythmaking. Their work converses with photography's ability to anchor eros and losses within the realm of the physical and the metaphysical. They have been invited as a visiting critic and guest speaker at esteemed institutions such as the Center for Photography at Woodstock, SUNY New Paltz, Haverford College, and Western Washington University. Their video works have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, Vox Populi Gallery, CROSSROADS presented by San Francisco Cinematheque, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, among others. Their photography has been featured on It’s Nice That, Whitehot Magazine and Lomography Magazine. Gong received their BFA from Parsons School of Design and their MA at the New School for Social Research. They are based in Brooklyn, NY.---Howl with Laura HawleyGet Froggy with Lauren Helmbrecht
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Jul 9, 2025 • 7min
Do the Show YOU Want to Do with Phil Rosenthal
Phil Rosenthal hosts “Somebody Feed Phil” on Netflix. He also created Everybody Loves Raymond.This episode first aired in November of 2020.
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Jul 2, 2025 • 6min
This Maneuver Will Get You To Drink More Water with Karen A. Chase
Karen A. Chase is an author, speaker, and brand designer. Her first book, Bonjour 40: A Paris Travel Log, garnered seven independent publishing awards, and her first novel, Carrying Independence, was a nominee for the 2020 Library of Virginia Literary Awards.---From the Advice Show archive: FLUSH YOUR PSYCHIC TRESPASSERS DOWN THE DRAIN
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Jun 25, 2025 • 7min
Put Your Energy Into What Makes the Fire, Not What Puts it Out with Malissa O'Donnell
Malissa O'Donnell is an advisor and consultant helping clients realize their creative ambitions to the fullest.
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Jun 18, 2025 • 10min
To Respond or React, That is the Question with Peter Putnam
Peter Putnam is a father, husband, writer and author of the new book, Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Growing Our Souls in the time of Trump. Peter's wife, Julia, is a TBAS contributor. Hear her advice here.
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