
The Best Advice Show
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.
Latest episodes

May 16, 2023 • 6min
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 5: Build Your Team with Dr. Ryan Howes
Ryan Howes, PhD, is a a clinical psychologist and writer in Pasadena, California, working primarily with men from a psychodynamic/relational approach. He's a co-host of the new show, Baggage Drop.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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May 11, 2023 • 10min
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 4: What's Not Serving You? with Jacqueline Raposo
Jacqueline Raposo is an interviewer, podcast producer, food writer and the author of The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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May 9, 2023 • 5min
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 3: Breathing Through Anxiety with Terry Rawls
Terry Rawls is the president of Strategic Transitions Group.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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May 4, 2023 • 9min
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 2: Delay is the Remedy of Anger with Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is one of the world's bestselling living philosophers. His most recent book is The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. His books, like Discipline is Destiny – an instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key appear in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 6 million copies. Together, they've spent over 300 weeks on the bestseller lists. He has written 13 books in ten years while also authoring two daily emails and a daily podcast. His YouTube channel has racked up millions of views, and The Daily Stoic channels have over 6 million combined followers. He lives outside Austin with his wife and two boys...and a small herd of cows and donkeys and goats. His bookstore, The Painted Porch, sits on historic Main St in Bastrop, Texas.---How to Transmute Anger and Rage with jackie sumell---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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May 2, 2023 • 7min
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 1: Don't Be Afraid of your Anger with Jen Brandel
Jennifer Brandel is a serial entrepreneur and systems change worker. She's the founder of Curious City, Hearken, Civic Exchange Chicago, Zebras Unite and Election SOS.---What do you do to safely release your anger? Lemme know @ 844-935-BEST or ZAK@bestadvice.show---Finding Catharsis with Megan Stielstra---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Apr 27, 2023 • 5min
Trigger Vacation Brain Anytime with Tad Davis
Tad Davis is an artist and kickball third-baseman living in Detroit. Your Summer Vacation with Susie Wise---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Apr 25, 2023 • 3min
The Pilgrim Continues His Way with John Wall Barger
John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Zyzzyva, Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, The Hopkins Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His poem, “Smog Mother,” was co-winner of The Malahat Review’s 2017 Long Poem Prize. His fifth collection of poems, Resurrection Fail (Spuyten Duvyil Press, 2022) was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Poetry Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Grayson Book Prize. His latest collection, Smog Mother, just came out (Palimpsest Press, 2022). He is a contract editor at Frontenac House, and teaches Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.Richard Serra | MoMA---The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Apr 20, 2023 • 7min
Shift Happens with Kyunghee Kim
Kyunghee Kim is a Korean American writer, poet, storyteller, and life coach in the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor area, Michigan. Her book is See Us Bloom.You can subscribe to Kyunghee's newsletter, Late Bloomers Club here - https://latebloomersclub.substack.com/---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Apr 18, 2023 • 13min
Do Something That Looks Nothing Like Success with Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. His previous books include What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, a New York Times bestseller. He is known for his technological optimism. Currently he is a Senior Maverick at Wired and lives in Pacifica, California. His new book is Excellent Advice for Living. Kevin was on this early TBAS episode discussion our life's work. - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/dying-with-kevin-kelly-799Here's his seminal essay, 1000 True Fans. - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/---BECOME A TRUE TBAS FAN TODAY! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Apr 13, 2023 • 7min
Wonder is a Mental State with Dr. Erika Bocknek
Dr. Erika Bocknek (https://www.instagram.com/drerikaconvo/) is a university professor, family therapist, and mom of 3. She holds a master’s degree in Couples and Family Therapy, a doctorate in Child Development, and two postdoctoral fellowships in Child Psychiatry and Infant Mental Health. She is the Associate Editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal and serves on the editorial boards of Adversity and Resilience Science and Infancy. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters for professional audiences, and she has also written articles for parents that have been seen in PBS Newshour, Marketwatch, the San Francisco Chronicle, and K’veller. She is a well-regarded trainer and has taught audiences as diverse as the psychology department at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, early childhood educators in Metro Detroit, family court judges across the state of Michigan, and the Detroit Pistons marketing department.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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