
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

Jul 4, 2024 • 5min
How To Question Your Assumptions and Live a Fuller Life with Dr. Susie Wise
Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She's the author of Design for Belonging and she coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design.
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Jul 2, 2024 • 8min
The Most Effective Way To Find Your Next Job with Liz Horowitz
Liz Horowitz runs Sonic Strategy Consulting where she helps audio first companies to amplify profitably. ---LISTEN TO floating down the career river with Bridget Thoreson.
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Jun 27, 2024 • 18min
Practical Advice for Cooking as Caregiving with Julia Turshen
Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a weekly newsletter and teaches cooking classes most Sunday afternoons. Her newest cookbook, What Goes with What, will be out in October 2024.Subscribe to Julia's newsletter, Keep Calm & Cook On HERE. Today's episode is based on this installment of the newsletter.
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Jun 25, 2024 • 3min
Do it Scared with Patricia Elzie-Tuttle
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.
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Jun 20, 2024 • 5min
When Everything Else Feels Awry with Phoebe McIndoe
Phoebe McIndoe is a radio artist and host of Telling Stories.
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Jun 18, 2024 • 8min
A Quick Way To Get Over Indecision with Emma Martin
Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work!Here are Joan LeMay's Breakfast Decider Dice
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Jun 13, 2024 • 8min
Ask This Question To Find The Best Local Food When You're Traveling with Annie Sim
Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled.
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Jun 11, 2024 • 3min
Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 3 with Sara Brooke Curtis
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.
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Jun 6, 2024 • 7min
Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 2 with Shira Heisler
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 SHIRA
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Jun 4, 2024 • 9min
Make Your Memory Archive Pt. 1 with Aaron Kaczander
Aaron Kaczander is a TV writer and photo archivist from Metro-Detroit living in Los Angeles
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