
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

Jan 31, 2023 • 4min
Establish Boundaries from the Beginning with Alexis Haselberger
Alexis Haselberger helps people do more and stress less! Learn more about her coaching practice here. ---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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Jan 26, 2023 • 9min
An Achievable Dream with Rebecca Lehrer
Rebecca Lehrer is the co-founder and CEO of The Mash-Up Americans. She has spent 18+ years doing strategy, marketing, and audience development in media, arts, and culture (Director of BD at New York Public Radio, The Flea Theater, Headlands Center for the Arts, Righteous Persons Foundation) and has over 12 years experience in audio and podcasting. Her work focuses on the shared cultural experiences that bring people together and re-centering stories on voices you don’t usually hear. She earned an MBA at the Yale School of Management and a BA in English at Columbia University. You can find her in Los Angeles, where she’s never out of hummus, hot sauce, and olives.---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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Jan 24, 2023 • 8min
Splay Like a Starfish with Amy Choi
Amy Choi is co-founder and editorial director of The Mash-Up Americans. A Korean-American married to a Colombian-Mexican-American, she is mom to two feisty Korombexican-Americans: in other words, The Future of America. LISTEN TO GRIEF, COLLECTED FROM THE MASH-UP AMERICANS!---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
---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---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

Jan 19, 2023 • 22min
Move Through the Day Like an Octopus and Three Other Provocations with Shara Nova
Shara Nova, a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling, shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond, has always felt like an outsider. Over the course of many albums, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop, and chamber music into a sound totally her own. SIGN UP FOR SHARA'S NEWSLETTER HERE!---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show---PAST ADVICE FROM BRILLIANT MUSICIANSSlowing Down with Katie Crutchfield of WaxahatcheeBeing Close with Michael FrantiNot Knowing with Merrill Garbus of Tune-YardsPlanting Seeds with Matt Berninger of The NationalFacing the Truth with Tamara Lindeman of The Weather StationSharing from a Deep Well of Knowledge with Daniel Messé of HemPower Hour with Jon London
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Jan 17, 2023 • 8min
How to Transmute Anger and Rage with jackie sumell
jackie sumell's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, including at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore; Brooklyn Library Main Branch; The Royal College of Art, London; Artist's Space, New York; Akademie Schloss-Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; St. Etienne Biennial, France; Alternator Gallery, British Columbia; Prospect 1, New Orleans, and ZKM, Germany. Her residencies and awards include the Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice; the Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellowship; Eyebeam Project Fellowship, and the Akademie Solitude Fellowship (2018). An ardent public speaker and prison abolitionist, sumell has lectured in colleges and universities around the U.S.---The Angola 3Solitary Gardens---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Jan 12, 2023 • 7min
The Generative Benefits of Investivating Your Shame with Heather Radke
Heather Radke is the author of Butts: A Backstory. Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion—and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Jan 10, 2023 • 8min
Measure Your Body with Scott Witthoft
Scott Witthoft is an educator, designer, and author of the book, This is a Prototype. With a background in forensic structural engineering, he incorporates that expertise with current pursuits in space, furniture, and product design—teaching and speaking widely. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Dec 29, 2022 • 29min
A Spiral Year: 23 voices on change, purpose and meaning
Today's episode featured Rabbi Yoni Dahlen, Dr. Erika Bocknek, Michael Franti, Jaye Johnson, Shari Colton, Eric Colton, Caveh Zahedi, Rob Walker, Jessi Hempel, Kevin Kelly, Dan Messé, Ned Specktor, Holly Wren Spaulding, Jo Strausz Rosen, Erica Heilman, Grace Bonney, Rikke Houde, Laura Hawley, Lucy Anderton---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Dec 22, 2022 • 14min
Zak Gives His Advice! with guest host Lauren Passell
Lauren Passell is founder of Tink Media. She is also the curator of Podcast The Newsletter and Podcast Marketing Magic. Her list of 100 Podcast Marketing tips was called “GOLD” by Glynn Washington, host of Snap Judgment. Lauren has spoken at Podcast Movement about podcast marketing and will be speaking at PodFest in Orlando and SXSW in Austin in 2022.---Listen to Lauren's advice about tapping into childhood!!!!!!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show
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Dec 21, 2022 • 41min
Living with OCD with Allison Raskin on MENTALLY GIL
On the Mentally Gil podcast, host Gil Kruger interviews some of the world's biggest YouTube and social media creators about their mental health journeys. Season one centers around anxiety, OCD, and burnout. The show also explores the connection between mental illness and creativity.MERCH: https://store.mentallygil.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/gillyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gilly CREDITS: Host & Executive Producer - Gil Kruger Executive Producer - Zac Stuart-Pontier Produced & Edited - Melisa D. Monts + Diane Kang of Diamond MPrint Productions Post-production Sound - Sam BairTheme Song & Ad Break Music - Austin ArcherShow Artwork - Stephanie Hall MarinAdditional Music - Slip.stream - https://www.slip.stream/?fpr=gilly (affiliate)
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