

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Zak Rosen
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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Jul 30, 2024 • 8min
A Clear and Transformative Tool To Give Feedback with Jenn Maer
Jenn Maer is the founder of Harmonic 55 and an IDEO alum. She helps companies and organizations hatch new brands, hone and express their existing brands, and on exceptionally good days, create positive change in the world.More on I like, I wish, I wonder...
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Jul 25, 2024 • 6min
My Tupperware is Gonna Be the End of Me with Jenny Lee
Jenny Lee was last on TBAS advising us on releasing psychic stress at the end of the day.
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Jul 23, 2024 • 5min
Notice When You're Unconsciously Doing Things That Don't Matter with Sarah May
Sarah May hosts Help Me Be Me, an emotional toolkit for creating positive change in yourself. Check out Zak's appearance on HMBM, Making Positive Waves of Change In Your Life.Sarah was last on The Best Advice Show 4 years ago advising us on Expecting the Opposite.
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Jul 18, 2024 • 15min
How To Combine Your Past and Current Selves with Dann McDorman
DANN McDORMAN is the author of West Heart Kill and an Emmy-nominated TV news producer, who has also worked as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, and cabinet maker.
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Jul 16, 2024 • 6min
How To Stop Tormenting Yourself with Diana Greene
Diana Greene is a mother and restaurant manager in Ohio. Call me with your grandma advice at 844-935-BEST
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Jul 11, 2024 • 5min
Easing Climate Anxiety with Jeanette Johnston
Jeanette Johnston (she/they) is an environmental educator and Director of the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee for NNOCCI, the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI), which trains communicators and educators to shift public discourse on climate change to be positive, community-minded, and solutions-focused. Using Less with Anne Marie Bonneau on The Best Advice Show--The Sunrise MovementTH!RD Act
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Jul 9, 2024 • 8min
Stop Asking for Permission to Make Your Dreams Come True with The Skiptown All-Stars
After 25 years in the City of Angels, Denise and James Gordon sold their house and hit the road to find a new hometown. On their podcast, The Skiptown All-Stars Travel Podcast, they break down each city and every restaurant, Air BnB and tourist trap we encounter along the way. We're not RV people, but we've got over 50 towns and 50,000 miles under our belt so it's only a matter of time until we're your new neighbors!
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Jul 4, 2024 • 6min
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 • 9min
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 • 19min
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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