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Make a List of Your Enemies to Articulate Who You're Not! with Emma Martin Nov 19, 2025

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Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work! She was last on the show dishing on indecision.

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Past episodes referenced in today's episode...

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

Manifesting Someone To Watch Over You with Cassandra Jenkins

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What's the Deal with Handshaking in 2025? Nov 12, 2025

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Lizzie Post is the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, and author of Emily Post's Etiquette - The Centennial Edition, and Higher Etiquette, as well as Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette 6th edition, and The Etiquette Advantage in Business 3rd edition. She is a co-president of the Emily Post Institute focusing on publishing and business development. Lizzie and her cousin Daniel co-host the Awesome Etiquette podcast, a weekly Q&A show that explores the topic of etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty.

Daniel Post Senning is the great-great grandson of Emily Post and a co-author of ⁠Emily Post’s Etiquette - The Centennial Edition⁠ and ⁠Emily Post's Business Etiquette⁠. He is also the author of ⁠Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online⁠.

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A weirdly helpful way to deal with the negative voice in your head with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen Nov 05, 2025

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DR. ELLEN HENDRIKSEN (she/her) is a clinical psychologist who will help you calm your anxiety and be your authentic self. She serves on the faculty at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) and is the author of HOW TO BE ENOUGH: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists.

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The Best Advice Show is Dead. This is Weirdly Helpful! Oct 29, 2025

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Zak is excited to present Weirdly Helpful, the spiritual successor to The Best Advice Show. On this first episode, Zak talks to artist and therapist, Laura Hawley whose advice from 2020 inspired the new show title.

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This is WEIRDLY HELPFUL! Oct 27, 2025

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Welcome to Weirdly Helpful. It's like The Best Advice show just weirder. 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!

What are you finding weirdly helpful during these trying times? CALL ZAK ON THE WEIRDLY HELPLINE and spill your guts @ 844-935-2378

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If Ambition Is Making You Unhappy with Courtney Daniels Oct 22, 2025

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This is an episode of a new podcast I really like called Gen X at Midlife. The show was created by TBAS contributor, Courtney Daniels. In this episode she talks to her longtime friend Tess Hawes about her experience of midlife crisis, Courtney's self-rejecting ambition, Tess' divorce and career pivot, and how to get out of depression. They touch on the book "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life" by James Hollis, "Mind Your Body" by Nicole Sachs, and Courtney's therapist, Lisa Chen, whom she highly recommends!

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The True Meaning of Discipline with John Cage and Mason Currey Oct 15, 2025

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Today's episode is based on Mason Currey's piece, John Cage on the true meaning of discipline. You should subscribe to Mason's essential newsletter, Subtle Maneuvers. And here's his piece about totally insane, unhinged, helpful strategies.

Mason's book, Making Art and Making a Living is available for pre-order here.

The John Cage interview excerpts come from The Internet Archive. Hear the whole thing @John Cage interviewed by Jack Hirschman in Los Angeles, 1963.

Mason was last on TBAS talking about procrastinating properly.

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Dogs and Berries Are Miracles. Why Not Combine Them? Oct 08, 2025

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Leora is a doctor and dog lover and berry lover. This advice originally aired back in August of 2020.

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You Don't Need To Remember Everything with Susannah Goodman Oct 01, 2025

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Susannah Goodmanis an artist and potter and community organizer in Detroit.

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Leftovering with Susannah Goodman

Noticing with Susannah Goodman

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Zak interviews his hero Jonathan Goldstein Sep 24, 2025

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I originally interviewed Jonathan Goldstein, creator and host of the greatest podcast of all time, Heavyweight, back in 2017 for Transom.org. I'm playing it here to celebrate Heavyweight's grand return.

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