
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

Feb 15, 2024 • 14min
Floating Down the Career River with Bridget Thoreson
Bridget Thoreson is a journalist exploring collaboration, engagement and how to navigate a fulfilling career. Subscribe to her Substack!---Rejecting the career ladder for a more fulfilling journey by Bridget Thoreson---More on Frederick Herzberg's Two-Factor theory
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Feb 13, 2024 • 8min
Double-Down on Your Relationship with Jaye Johnson & Joe Richman
Jaye Johnson is a Peabody award-winning journalist, filmmaker, producer, and writer exploring the ways cultural expectations shape our public and private behavior. She is the founder and editor of The Pleasure Report, an online space that explores the intersection of politics, culture, and pleasure. As a TED Resident, she has been writing and speaking about sexuality and sense education. Her TED Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex, has been viewed 3.5 million times and is translated into 27 languages.Joe Richman is the founder of Radio Diaries, a Peabody award-winning producer and reporter whose pioneering series Teenage Diaries brought the voices of teenagers to a national audience on NPR’s All Things Considered. Before founding Radio Diaries, he worked on the NPR programs All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday, Car Talk, and Heat. Joe also teaches radio documentary at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The LA Times called Joe “a kind of Studs Terkel of the airwaves.”Being Close with Michael Franti
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Feb 8, 2024 • 12min
The Mortal Mingle with Eef Barzelay: Did You Know These Were Roger Ebert's Dying Words?
The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to that, all these little miracles started happening.”---Roger Ebert's Wife, Chaz, on His Final Moments
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Feb 6, 2024 • 5min
The Mortal Mingle with Brenda Strausz: We Are All Meant To Shine
Brenda Strausz, 74, of Southfield, Michigan, died on 29 January 2024.The Marianne Williamson passage from this episode is from 'A Return to Love.'
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Feb 1, 2024 • 13min
The Mortal Mingle with Caveh Zahedi: Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both Die
Caveh Zahedi is a filmmaker and host of the new podcast, Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both Die. He was on this episode of TBAS talking about becoming art.
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Jan 30, 2024 • 10min
The Mortal Mingle with Shira Heisler: Say What You Want To Say Before It's Too Late
Shira Heisler is a physician, Zak's wife and the most frequent contributor to TBAS.SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA HEISLERSPLITTING WITH SHIRASALTING WITH SHIRACRITIQUING WITH SHIRASHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRAPRACTICING RESTRAINT WITH SHIRA---***Remembering Sam Woll
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Jan 26, 2024 • 9min
LET'S GO LIONS! & The Devotional Pride of John Aslanian
John Aslanian is a professor, a Sloan Head and a Detroit Lions fan from Metro Detroit. Learn more about the Sloan Heads here.
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Jan 25, 2024 • 5min
The Mortal Mingle with Resham Mantri: The Art of Endings
Resham Mantri is a death doula, divorced single co-parent and grieving/loving writer and artist who believes in the fertile soil of the in-between spaces for great dreaming and imagination. She is the creator of The In-Between, an online publication of her heart and mind and the co-creator of The Community DeathCare Digest, a biweekly newsletter that explores how we die in community alongside mutual aid requests. She creates installation and performance art that has been shown in Brooklyn where she lives with her two children, her mother and their dog Freddie. In relationship grief work, Resham brings all of the tools she has been trained in and practices. These include many years as a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn Family Court working with children and families experiencing hard transitions, her experience as a death doula, her work within restorative justice practices navigating divorce and relationship work, and her ongoing friendship with her childrens’ co-parent. Her work as a writer and artist are her foundational dreamscapes which she will bring to this offering through essays, poems, podcasts, and literature.
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Jan 23, 2024 • 14min
The Mortal Mingle with Nikki Boyer: A Date with Death
Nikki Boyer is a three time Emmy® award-winning TV host, producer, actress, and podcaster. She created, hosted, and served as an executive producer on the award-winning Wondery podcast, Dying for Sex, which won the 2021 Ambie Award for Podcast of the Year---and was named as one of Apple’s favorite podcasts of 2020. Nikki also hosts Near Death and The Daily Smile.
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Jan 18, 2024 • 7min
The Mortal Mingle with Cyndie Spiegal: Something To Remember Them By
Cyndie Spiegal, author of Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay, is an outspoken speaker, community builder, and business coach on a mission to empower others to refine their mindsets for good, and help them realize their wildest dreams. Her unique blend of straight talk, relatability, sass, and inspiration has made her a sought-after speaker for brands, conferences, and events. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her photographer husband and two overly particular cats. She was last on The Best Advice Show talking about how not to be creepy when talking to strangers.
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