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**Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)**

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!

Latest Episodes:

Viscerally Remember Your Past Vacations with Tad Davis Feb 19, 2025

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Tad Davis is an artist living in Detroit. This episode originally aired in 2023.

Rachel Jacobson is always on vacation and so can you!

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Try These Witchy, Water-based Maneuvers to Improve Your Life with Dr. MLE Feb 12, 2025

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Emily Carr/Dr. MLE is a Wellness Witch, a professional poet, amateur Tarot reader, joyous revolutionary arts educator, and fitness coach. Subscribe to her newsletter @ https://soulfloss.substack.com/

LISTEN: You Should Buy Mice and Other Transformative Advice from Lucy Anderton

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Next Time You're Bored Try This with Noa Rosen Feb 05, 2025

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Noa was last on the show discussing the advantages of peeling grapes with your teeth.

Here's Sara Curtis talking about replacing your email refresh habit with something more generative.

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Crush Your Ego and Open Your Eyes to the Benefits of Feedback with Jason Silver Jan 29, 2025

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Jason Silver is the author of Your Grass is Greener. He is a multi-time founder of kids and a multi-time founder of companies. He gets his biggest thrill helping modern employees and their teams unlock a better way to work—surfing is a close second.

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Leave a Margin with Mary Austin (or How to Stop Being Late to Everything) Jan 22, 2025

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Mary Austin is a pastor in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She writes Stained Glass in the City on Substack. It's deep and delightful.

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Pack Your Go Bag with adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown Jan 16, 2025

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adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown are sisters, authors, artists and co-hosts of How to Survive the End of the World. Inspired by wisdom from Octavia Butler's ⁠Parable of the Sower⁠ and a listener's inquiry, Zak and the sisters delve into practical steps for emergency preparedness, the psychological barriers of starting, and the importance of preparing in community. From essential items to include to practicing quick evacuations, this episode is packed with valuable advice for surviving in unpredictable situations.

The excerpt of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler was read by Lucie Putnam

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YK Hong: Liberatory strategy + Tech justice

Go Bag Essentials

Tactical Hope and the OODA Loop from How to Survive the End of the World

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Compare Yourself to Yourself with Billie Lunt Jan 08, 2025

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Billie Lunt is a Professor, Mentor, and Coach for students aspiring to enter the field of dental hygiene. She helps students to set goals and develop the skills required to achieve them. On the path to becoming a dental hygienist, many students learn just as much about themselves as they do about the field of dentistry.

You can find Billie on Instagram @the_happy_flosser

She also has a podcast incase you ever decide you want to go to school to become a dental hygienist.

The Happy Flosser RDH Podcast for dental hygiene students.

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How To Fall Asleep Dec 26, 2024

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The TBAS sleep correspondents featured in today's episode are Courtney Daniels, Jenny Lee, Karen Semone, Lois Langberg and Tiffany Paulsen.

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You Need to Get Rejected A LOT MORE with Alice Draper Dec 11, 2024

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Alice Draper shares her experience with rejection and how it can lead to greater success, both personally and professionally and then she offers strategies for all of us to build our own rejection resilience muscle.

Alice Draper is the founder of Hustling Writers, a podcast guesting agency that has secured clients on hundreds of podcasts, including most of the top 0.5% shows. Her newly-launched podcast, My Rejection Story, features interviews with Neil Patel, Jason VanRuler, and Gay Hendricks. She has written for HuffPost, Refinery29, Business Insider, and more.

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Manifesting Someone To Watch Over You with Cassandra Jenkins Dec 04, 2024

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Zak meets up with one of his favorite songwriters, Cassandra Jenkins, before her show in Amsterdam. They talk about her pre-show ritual, inspired by her friend, Erika Spring. It's something we can all try next time we're in need of some knowing companionship. It's called...The Cosmic Guest List.

"Like the night sky itself, My Light, My Destroyer is always expanding. Cassandra Jenkins' third full-length, out July 12 via Dead Oceans, cracks open the promise of reaching the edge of the new with a wider sonic palette than ever before– encompassing guitar-driven indie rock, new age, sophistipop, and jazz. At the center of it all is Jenkins' curiosity towards the quarks and quasars that make up her universe, as she blends field recordings with poetic lyricism that is at turns allusive, humorous, devastating and confessional– an alchemical gesture that further deepens the richness of My Light, My Destroyer's 13 songs." -cassandrajenkins.com/

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