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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!

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Best of the Best Advice: Creation with Shirley Woodson Jun 21, 2022

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Shirley Woodson is an artist and educator. She's the 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist. Her solo show, Why Do I Delight is up at the Detroit Artists Market through 10/23. You can download or purchase the new Shirley Woodson monograph, here.

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Best of the Best Advice: Starting and Finishing with Erica Heilman Jun 16, 2022

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Erica Heilman (@rumblestripvt) is the host of the podcast, Rumble Strip.

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Best of the Best Advice: Peeling Grapes with Noa Jun 14, 2022

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Noa eats fruit from her home in Detroit, MI.

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Morning Zesting with Drew Philp

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Essential Advice from Recent Middle-School Graduates Jun 09, 2022

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Naja, Sebastian, Asia, Jessica, Lenzia and Zora are recent graduates of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit. Hear their advice on today's graduation special!

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How to achieve easy umami flavors with Dr. Michael Strausz Jun 07, 2022

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Michael Strausz is a dad, cook and professor living in Texas. He's the author of Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan. You can hear his past food-centric advice here and here.

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Your Summer Vacation with Dr. Susie Wise Jun 02, 2022

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For years designer and Stanford d.school educator, Dr. Susie Wise, has coached overwhelmed school and community leaders across the country who didn't know where to start. She uses the classical tools of design to approach belonging in a whole new way. The tools in Design for Belonginghelp bridge the gap between the logistical planning of your office meeting or organizational restructure and the way you want people to feel when they participate.

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Real Estate & Heartbreak with Gina Pensiero May 31, 2022

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Gina Pensiero is a parent, musician and writer living in Brooklyn

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All Split Up and Nowhere to Go By Bridget Read

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Feeling Through with Amy Dallas

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Words are Windows with Stevon Lewis May 26, 2022

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Stevon Lewis is a licensed psychotherapist, speaker, author, and host of the podcast, How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything.

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Anne Kadet Wears the Same Thing Everyday May 25, 2022

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Anne Kadet is a journalist and writer of the newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE where you can read about The Naked Cowboy's Morning Routine.

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Someone You Used to Be with Anne Kadet May 24, 2022

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Anne Kadet is a journalist and writer of the newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE.

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Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)

Shirley Woodson is an artist and educator. She's the 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist. Her solo show, Why Do I Delight is up at the Detroit Artists Market through 10/23. You can download or purchase the new Shirley Woodson monograph, here.

To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST

Erica Heilman (@rumblestripvt) is the host of the podcast, Rumble Strip.

To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST

Noa eats fruit from her home in Detroit, MI.

Naja, Sebastian, Asia, Jessica, Lenzia and Zora are recent graduates of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit. Hear their advice on today's graduation special!

Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST

Michael Strausz is a dad, cook and professor living in Texas. He's the author of Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan. You can hear his past food-centric advice here and here.

What are you recent favorite episodes or pieces of advice? I'm gonna run them during my summer vacay. Lemme know at zak@bestadvice.show

Gina Pensiero is a parent, musician and writer living in Brooklyn

All Split Up and Nowhere to Go By Bridget Read

Feeling Through with Amy Dallas

What's the best advice you've ever heard? Call me@844-935-BEST

IG: @bestadviceshow

home: bestadvice.show

Stevon Lewis is a licensed psychotherapist, speaker, author, and host of the podcast, How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything.

Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST

IG: @bestadviceshow

home: bestadvice.show

Anne Kadet is a journalist and writer of the newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE where you can read about The Naked Cowboy's Morning Routine.

Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST

Anne Kadet is a journalist and writer of the newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE.

Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST

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