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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Jun 25, 2024 • 4min
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 • 6min
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 • 9min
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 • 9min
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 • 4min
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 • 8min
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 • 10min
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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May 30, 2024 • 5min
Chart Your Path From Then to Now with Efdot
Efdot is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and creative director. His practice extends beyond the studio to encompass collaborations, public murals, drawings, paintings, prints, animations & sculptures.Efdot's work has been showcased internationally, from North America to Asia, and has been featured in large public sites, galleries and commercial products. Past collaborations include institutions and fellow artists, brands like Nike, Adobe, Apple, and Coca-Cola, and for entities like Hypebeast, the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls, and the US Olympic Skateboard Team.
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May 28, 2024 • 9min
You Should Buy Mice and Other Weird, Transformative Advice from Lucy Anderton
Lucy Anderton is a poet living in France.
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May 23, 2024 • 9min
Share Your Secrets with Nick van der Kolk
Nick is the creator of Love + Radio and The Secrets Hotline which you can call @ 1-929-SECRETS (929-732-7387)More secret-centric advice from TBAS: Exorcise the Icky with adrienne maree brown
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