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Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Resolutions Smesolutions! Ta Ta 2025.
Happiest and healthiest of New Years to you and yours! Thank you for listening. Love, z SUPPORT WEIRDLY HELPFUL BY BECOMING A PATRON RIGHT NOW. Todays episode features morsels from the following Weirdly Helpers... Compare Yourself to Yourself with Billie Lundt You Don't Need to Feel Good to Get Going with Brad Stalburg Do The Hard Thing First with Tiffany Paulsen Drive-By Huggers with Brian Passell Meditation with Jen Kimchiano Shower Belly with Lauren Passell Morning Joy Practice with Brandi Stanley...
2025-12-31
22 min
My Rejection Story
Alice Draper: The 100 Rejection Challenge That Changed My Life
This episode originally appeared on The Best Advice Show hosted by Zak Rosen. Find the original episode here: https://bestadvice.show/episodes/you-need-to-get-rejected-a-lot-more-with-alice-draper In this episode, Zak speaks with writer and publicist Alice Draper about the transformative power of embracing rejection. Alice shares how taking on the "100 Rejection Challenge" not only improved her freelance journalism career but also revolutionized her personal life, from dating to building resilience after her father's dementia diagnosis. Learn how seeking out micro rejections can build your rejection resilience muscle and lead to unexpected successes. ...
2024-12-18
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Harmonize Something Difficult with Meklit Hadero
Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-American vocalist, songwriter, composer and former refugee, known for her electric stage presence, innovative sound and vibrant cultural activism. Meklit hosts Movement, a transmedia storytelling initiative that lives at the intersection of migration and music.Meklit’s performances have taken her to renowned stages across four continents. Her last album topped world music charts across the US and Europe, and was named amongst the best of the year by Bandcamp and The Sunday Times UK. Most meaningfully to her, Meklit is a star in her home country of Ethiopia, after the music video fo...
2023-11-28
11 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Here's One Way To Hold Your Heart with Kiana Love
Kiana Love is the founder of Be Wild Woman, a chakra teacher and healer. Kiana is passionate about empowering women to feel at home in their bodies, safe, nurtured and loved. Her passion stems from her personal journey healing from shame and trauma; from sexual violence, painful cycles, cysts, grief, and depression. She invites women to realign with nature and awaken to joy. She draws from her journey, studies of the feminine, sacred sexuality, energy healing, nutrition, chakra healing, ayurveda and creativity to empower women to feel confident, joyous and free to express themselves.---Support...
2023-10-26
08 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
You Don't Have to Be on Social Media If You Don't Want to Be with Amelia Hruby
Amelia Hruby is a writer, educator and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners in creating purposeful, powerful podcasts. She’s also the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients, where she shares stories, strategies and experiments for growing your business with radical generosity and energetic sovereignty.---Supp...
2023-10-24
12 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
This is How to Make a Friend with Elizabeth Newcamp
Elizabeth Newcamp is one of Zak's co-hosts on Slate's parenting show, Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---...
2023-10-19
11 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Practice Slow Style with Zandra Zuraw
Zandra Zuraw is the founder of Slow Style Home and host of the Slow Style Home Podcast. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron. - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.
2023-09-28
06 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Be a Person with People with Emily Naylor
Emily Naylor is a radio producer based in London, England. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45D...
2023-09-26
05 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
The Self-Squeegee with Nina Jackson
Nina Jackson is the most recent contributor to our on-going series of Shower Advice. You can be next! Call Zak with your shower advice @ 844-935-BEST---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.
2023-09-21
05 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
A Goat, a Chicken and a Cow Walk Into Your House with Stephanie Butnick
Stephanie Butnick is host of Unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast, produced by Tablet Magazine. She's also Tablet's deputy editor and co-founder of its podcast network, Tablet Studios. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow...
2023-09-19
08 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Brilliance is Everywhere with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture. She is the author of CLASSROOM WARS: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015), and FIT NATION: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2023). She is co-producer and host of the acclaimed podcast WELCOME TO YOUR FANTASY, from Pineapple Street Studios/Gimlet and the co-host of PAST PRESENT podcast. She is a columnist for MSNBC Opinion, a frequent media guest expert, public speaker, and contributor to outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, an...
2023-09-14
10 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Never Use This Expression with Richard Strausz
Richard Strausz is a retired math teacher living in Metro Detroit. ---Zak interviews Jake Gyllenhaal, Greta Caruso and Dan Santat about their new book, The Secret Society of Aunts and Uncles---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow
2023-09-12
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Running One Mile
Claudia Rincon is a marthoner in NYC New York City running in support of diversity, women's safety, and body positivity.Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance. He is the author of the new book Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and The Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He is the coauthor of Peak Performance. The Passion Paradox, and the author of The Science of Running. Collectively his books have sold more than half a million copies in print, ebook, and audio formats.Sarah Alvarez is founder and editor-in-chief of Outlier Media
2023-09-07
12 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Find Your Heartfelt, Go-To Phrase with Kyle Norris
Kyle Norris has worked in public radio as a host, reporter and producer for 20 years. He spent 10 of those years at Michigan Radio and has additionally worked for KNKX and KUOW in Seattle. He currently teaches audio storytelling at KUOW’s RadioActive youth media program. Norris was recently the field producer for Wondery’s true crime podcast, “Suspect”; senior producer for the “Battle Tactics for your Sexist Workplace” podcast; and co-instructor for the University of Washington’s graduate course, “Audio Storytelling.” ---Offering Help with Mia Birdsong---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - http...
2023-09-05
10 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Soulful Self-Promotion with Devin Andrade
Devin Andrade is part of the amazing team at Tink Media, a digital content producer and co-founder of Two Market Girls, a plant-based lifestyle brand. As a digital producer, she creates a variety of content and strategies to support the brands she works with. Devin is currently helping create a micro-credential course for accessibility in podcasting at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice...
2023-08-31
09 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Marie Kondo your Condiments with Zoë Komarin
Zoë Komarin is a chef, artist and food curator living in LA. Subscribe to Zoë's Nap Snacks!---DEEP CLEAN YOUR DISHWASHER---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS li...
2023-08-29
06 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
An Effective Way to Network with Eliana Goldstein
Eliana Goldstein is a Millennial Success Coach working with individuals to create success in their careers and lives. If you’re here, you can probably relate to feelings, experiences and challenges I had as I navigated my life in my 20s and 30s. If you're unhappy, burnt out and feel like you’ve reached your boiling point and you just want someone or something to help you make a real change, I’ve been there, I get it, and I want to help. In my role as a Coach, I'll help you find & land well-paid careers you love so that you...
2023-08-24
10 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Learn to Trust Your Taste with Micah Frank
Micah Frank is a producer at Broadway Video. He's worked on The Other Two and Schmigadoon!---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.
2023-08-22
09 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Don't Let the Weather Stop You with Dave Leins
This episode originally aired on 6/29/20David Leins is a Podcast Coordinator and Producer at WDET. He also oversees the StoryMakers program. Leins joined WDET after working at the Arab American National Museum.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow...
2023-08-17
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Adopt a Bubbe with Rabbi Alana Alpert
Rabbi Alana Alpert is the rabbi at Congregation T'Chiyah and until recently served as both rabbi and as the Founding Director of Detroit Jews for Justice. Adapting powerful models from across the country, DJJ engages the Metro Detroit Jewish community on issues like water access, health care, workers rights and police brutality. She is proud that DJJ is thriving under new leadership and is enjoying living more fully into her role as congregational rabbi. She is a graduate of the Clergy Leadership Incubator and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Clergy Leadership Program.---Read a beaut...
2023-08-15
11 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Music for Beginners pt. 4 with Briana Lyn
Briana Lyn is a Country Pop Singer Songwriter & session vocalist based in Los Angeles, California. Her vocal styles cross over to pop, country, jazz and classic-Disney-style show tunes. She’s often compared to a young Dolly Parton, Jodie Benson (the Little Mermaid), and Amy Grant among others.BREATHING with Terry Rawls ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak...
2023-08-10
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Music for Beginners pt. 3 with Abigail Bengson
Artist, singer, actor, ritual builder, Abigail Bengson, is one-half of The Bengsons---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle...
2023-08-08
14 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Music for Beginners pt. 2 with Shaun Bengson
A songwriter and performer, Shaun Bengson is one-half of The Bengsons. Let Your Voice Break with Abigail Bengson.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to k...
2023-08-03
15 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Music for Beginners pt. 1 with James Lowrie
James Lowrie writes music at the intersection of pop, classical, and experimental music traditions. As a composer he both celebrates and interrogates genre conventions, putting commonly found musical material under the microscope. The resultant music can best be described as psychedelic-modernist easy listening.---Always Beginning with Norene Cashen---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help...
2023-08-01
08 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
"Art is Anything You Can Get Away With" with Emily McElwreath (and Andy Warhol)
Emily McElwreath is equipped with over seventeen years of experience as an adviser, independent curator and art educator; she also boasts a background in sales. Thanks to her time as Director of Communications and Education at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Emily demonstrates the unique ability to understand the art world from both the point of view of the artist and the audience. This skill is continually perfected through extensive involvement in art education: throughout her career, Emily has organized multiple programs, lectures, and panels, featuring distinguished artists, on university campuses and leading NYC venues, in addition to...
2023-07-27
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Acknowledge The Unspoken Aspects of Who You Are with Saadia Khan
Saadia Khan is a Pakistani American immigrant, human rights activist & social entrepreneur. She is also the founder and host of an award-winning weekly podcast, Immigrantly, and the co-producer and co-host of Invisible Hate podcast, which focuses on hate crimes committed against minorities. She holds a Master's in Human Rights from Columbia University. She has worked with UN Women, and other UN entities at a small civil society organization focused on women's rights. She is also a board member of Hearts and Homes for Refugees. This volunteer-driven nonprofit organization works with the U.S. Department of State & designated agencies to wel...
2023-07-25
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Figure Out Your Dating Dealmakers with Michael Kaye
Michael Kaye is the Director of Brand Marketing & Communications at Archer & OkCupid.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle...
2023-07-20
11 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
F the Shoulds with Tricia Huffman
Tricia Huffman is a podcast host, speaker, Manager of Integrity to Grammy Award-winning artists, and founder of Your Joyologist. While living out her first dream as a touring sound engineer, she saw that everyone, includng the people we think “have it all,” often don’t feel fulfilled and fight doubts, worries, and compare them- selves to others daily. With her unique background and knowledge in self-care and wellness, she first created her Joyology to keep artists healthy, grounded, and inspired in body and mind while on tour. For over a decade she has been a called upon mental health and mi...
2023-07-18
08 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
A Post Poop Prayer with Rabbi Yoni Dahlen
Rabbi Yoni Dahlen is a rabbi and educator at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan. Committed to a mission of lifelong Jewish learning, Rabbi Dahlen seeks to deepen connection to Jewish life, prayer, study, and social and moral obligation through diverse educational and experiential engagement. Ready to take the next step in your Jewish journey or wondering what that next step is? Contact Rabbi Dahlen, sit down for a cup of coffee, and open your heart to a new chapter in your Jewish life.Learn more about Asher Yatzar here.---Support TBAS by...
2023-07-13
09 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Getting Back In the Saddle with Tiffany Paulsen and Ann Friedman
Tiffany Paulsen (@thetiffanypaulsen) is a screenwriter, producer and director. Her most recent film, About Fate.Ann Friedman (@AnnFreidman) is the co-author Big Friendship and creator of the excellent The Ann Freidman Weekly newsletter. Sign up here.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon...
2023-07-11
06 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Diversify your Song Catalogue with Chris Gethard
Chris Gethard is a comedian based out of the great state of New Jersey. He can be seen performing all over the world. He’s the host of the podcast Beautiful/Anonymous, the author most recently of the Lonely Dad Conversations, and the figurehead of a canceled television show that was actually more like a religious cult.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ...
2023-06-15
19 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
What We Talk About When We Talk about Rejection with Lesa Edwards
Lesa Edwards is a Job Search Strategist and Coach.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V...
2023-06-08
08 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Don't Let Your Creative Impulse Die with Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman is the co-creator/Showrunner of Billions on Showtime. He wrote and/or co-wrote Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen, Solitary Man and directed Solitary Man. He hosts The Moment.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the...
2023-06-01
22 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month #9 : Do Things Your Way with Alo Johnston
Alo Johnston (he/him) is a Latino trans man and licensed marriage and family therapist. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. It was there that he received specific, unique training in LGBTQ affirmative psychotherapy. He continued his training at the Los Angeles LGBT Center and completed his training with the Los Angeles Gender Center. He now works in private practice in downtown Los Angeles.His work integrates feminist and postmodern styles of psychotherapy and he always works to see mental health through an intersectional lens.Alo al...
2023-05-30
11 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 8: Never Chase It, Let It Come To You with Sequoia Holmes
The podcast Black People Love Paramore is exactly what you think it is. Each episode, pop-culture and media expert Sequoia Holmes brings on comedians and pop-culture critics (Justin Richmond, Sydnee Washington, Jewel Wicker) to investigate the seemingly random, underrepresented interests of different niches of Black people. It’s always so funny that I often forget that I’m listening in on what usually ends up being a mini-lectures. It’s funny but really insightful. This all started because Sequoia wanted to talk about her love for Paramore and why it surprised people to learn this. (PLOT TWIST: She does NOT lik...
2023-05-25
1h 14
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 7: Celebrate Good Times Come On! with Dr. Nina Polyné
Dr. Nina Polyné is a California licensed clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience, at some of the nation’s most prestigious and advanced hospital settings. She enjoys teaching psychology students and medical providers; she was honored with the role of Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California San Diego, in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Nina co-host of Baggage Drop from Wondermind. ---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharyb...
2023-05-23
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 6: Values Mapping with Dr. Jessica Stern
Dr. Jessica Stern is Co-host of Baggage Drop from Wondermind. She became a clinical psychologist out of a desire to help people overcome their struggles and reach their full potential. Her particular interests led her to specialize in working with people who are coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, and addiction, among other mental health conditions, at NYU Langone Psychiatry Associates. ---FILL OUT Dr. Stern's worksheet How to Make a Change and Actually Stick to It !!!!---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://w...
2023-05-18
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 5: Build Your Team with Dr. Ryan Howes
Ryan Howes, PhD, is a a clinical psychologist and writer in Pasadena, California, working primarily with men from a psychodynamic/relational approach. He's a co-host of the new show, Baggage Drop.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---...
2023-05-16
06 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 4: What's Not Serving You? with Jacqueline Raposo
Jacqueline Raposo is an interviewer, podcast producer, food writer and the author of The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help...
2023-05-11
11 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 3: Breathing Through Anxiety with Terry Rawls
Terry Rawls is the president of Strategic Transitions Group.---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4...
2023-05-09
05 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 2: Delay is the Remedy of Anger with Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is one of the world's bestselling living philosophers. His most recent book is The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. His books, like Discipline is Destiny – an instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key appear in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 6 million copies. Together, they've spent over 300 weeks on the bestseller lists. He has written 13 books in ten years while also authoring two daily emails and a...
2023-05-04
10 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Mental Health Awareness Month pt. 1: Don't Be Afraid of your Anger with Jen Brandel
Jennifer Brandel is a serial entrepreneur and systems change worker. She's the founder of Curious City, Hearken, Civic Exchange Chicago, Zebras Unite and Election SOS.---What do you do to safely release your anger? Lemme know @ 844-935-BEST or ZAK@bestadvice.show---Finding Catharsis with Megan Stielstra---Support TBAS by becoming a patron!!!! - https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show ...
2023-05-02
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Do Something That Looks Nothing Like Success with Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. His previous books include What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, a New York Times bestseller. He is known for his technological optimism. Currently he is a Senior Maverick at Wired and lives in Pacifica, California. His new book is Excellent Advice for Living. Kevin was on this early TBAS episode discussion our life's work. - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/dying-with-kevin-kelly-799Here's his seminal essay, 1000 True Fans. - https://kk.org/th...
2023-04-18
13 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Consider Doing Fewer Things Better with Jonathan Fields
Jonathan Fields—the Good Life Guy—delivers insights that spark purpose, possibility, and potential.On a decades-long quest to discover what makes people come fully alive, Jonathan is an award-winning author, Webby-nominated producer, business innovator, and host of one of the world’s top podcasts, Good Life Project. The Wall Street Journal named Good Life Project one of the top self-development podcasts, and Apple featured it on-stage during its legendary annual product event. Jonathan is featured widely in the media, including The New York Times, FastCompany, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, CNN, The Guardian, O Magazine, SELF, Allure, Outsid...
2023-03-28
13 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Making Sentimental Bookmarks with Maleny Martinez
Would you be interested in buying Best Advice Show stationary? If so, lemme know at zak@BESTADVICE.show. This is not committing yourself to buying this merch. I'm just trying to get a sense of your interest. THANKS!---Call Zak with your advice at 844-935-BEST---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener sur...
2022-11-10
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Killing Time Productively with Kelly C.
Kelly waits patiently with delicious breakfast sandwiches at the ready in Oregon.---Pausing with Aaron MondryYou're Gonna Wait! with Erin Allen--Call Zak with your life advice at 844-935-BEST or send a voice memo to zak@bestadvice.show---bestadvice.showIG: @bestadviceshowZak’s twitter: @muzachary ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS li...
2022-11-03
05 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
H.A.L.T. with Jocelyn Mackenzie
Jocelyn Mackenzie is a Brooklyn-based musician, maker, and medium. A singer, songwriter, songwriting coach, artist, stylist, intuitive, and psychic, she recently released her debut solo album PUSH on Righteous Babe Records. ---Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST or email him at ZAK@bestadvice.show---IG: @bestadviceshow home: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming...
2022-04-07
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
A Partial Register of the 927 (or was it 928?) Eternal Truths with Jan Worth-Nelson and Ted Nelson (and Sheldon Kopp)
Jan Worth-Nelson and Ted Nelson are consulting editors with East Village Magazine in Flint, MI---An Eschatological Laundry list: By Sheldon Kopp (1974)---What eternal truths does Kopp miss? Let Zak know at ZAK@BESTADVICE.show---IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/be...
2022-02-10
08 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Imagining You've Been Stuck on a Spaceship with Lucy Anderton
Lucy Anderton is a poet living in France. You can read her work here, here and here.--Send me your advice at 844 - 935 - BEST or email me a voice memo at ZAK@bestadvice.show.--IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---...
2022-02-01
09 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Exorcising Anger with Jennifer Brandel
Jennifer Brandel is a serial entrepreneur and systems change worker. She's the founder of Curious City, Hearken, Civic Exchange Chicago, Zebras Unite and Election SOS.---What do you do to safely release your anger? Lemme know @ 844-935-BEST or ZAK@bestadvice.show---Finding Catharsis with Megan Stielstra---IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this sh...
2022-01-24
07 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
On Demand Breathing with Sadie Lune
Sadie Lune is a queer artist, parent and sex worker living in Berlin.---Email a voice memo of your advice to Zak@bestadvice.show.---Meditating Daily with Jen Rusciano---IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fi...
2022-01-19
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Slowing Down with Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee
Katie Crutchfield is one of the great singer-songwriters of our time. Her most recent album as Waxahatchee is Saint Cloud.Putting Down the Think with Marlee GraceRequest your dream Advice Show guest by emailing me at Zak@bestadvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to...
2021-09-22
09 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Saying it Out Loud with Bethel Habte
Bethel Habte is a producer and reporter @Resistance.LISTEN TO HUNDREDS OF OTHER PIECES OF THE BEST ADVICE SHOW WHEREVER YOU LISTEN TO PODCASTS. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTO JOIN TBAS POWER HOUR CLUB EMAIL ME AT ZAK@BESTADVICE.SHOWTBAS # 38: Self-Talking with Steven HandelTBAS # 66: Expecting the Opposite with Sarah May B.TBAS # 88: Talking to Your Best Friend with LaurenTBAS # 285: Evolving Self-Talk with Kelly TravisTBAS #303: Talking to my Younger Self with Chelsea Ursin Our...
2021-09-20
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
JOIN THE TBAS POWER HOUR HOUR CLUB! with Jon London
Jonathan London is a leadership development professional and songwriter from Michigan.--My New Habit for Tackling Nagging Tasks: Power Hour. - Gretchen RubinTo join The Best Advice Show Power Hour Club, email ZAK@bestadvice.show and I'll send you an invite.Our first power hour is 6/21 @ 3 PM EST. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon...
2021-06-07
06 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Letting Go with Gary Macko
Gary Macko is a husband and father living in Michigan.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: When Gary was a young dad, his son loved playing pots and pans. Everyday, he would take them out, make a big pile, make a mess. And then Gary would come in and clean it up.GARY: I can't tell you how many times my wife would look at me and laugh because of watching me put the pans and pots away every single night. ZAK: So your...
2021-04-15
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Saying Yes with Marty Maddin
Marty Maddin is a husband, father and a leadership and performance coach.Tell me your regrets at 844-935-BEST OR ZAK@BESTADVICE.SHOW TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Ok, it's July, 1995. Where are you in your life at that point?MARTY: So, I am in high school and it's summer time and I'm working at a day-camp. ZAK: And so, in your mind you've got a lot going on?MARTY: It sounds funny when you say it now, but yes, at the time I thought I was pretty busy with...
2021-03-24
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Starting Young with Dr. Celeste Holbrook
Dr. Celeste Holbrook (@drcelesteholbrook) is a sexologist, speaker and author.She was last on the show talking about the reality that one of you wants to have sex more than the other.I want your advice about having difficult conversations! Call me at 844-935-BEST or email at ZAK@BestAdvice.ShowTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I'm excited for some more advice from Dr. Celeste Holbrook.CELESTE: I am a sexologist. I've had my own practice for 7-years and I've been a sex educator for 10.ZAK: Today's episode may not...
2021-03-10
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Letting Them Be with Lorraine McDonald
Lorraine McDonald is a mom, spouse and family doctor living in Oregon.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTFor a fun time, please record yourself, solo or with your pod, singing the chorus of Yellow Submarine and send it to me at ZAK@bestADVICE.show or leave it as a voicemail at 844-935-BEST. TRANSCRIPT: LORRAINE: My advice is never try to achieve a greater level of happiness with children. When your child is happy don't get in the way of that. Don't try to make it better...
2021-02-22
05 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Bringing it Down with Stephanie Slagle
Stephanie Slagle is Senior Director, Brand Agency and Sales Strategy at Graham Media Group. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:STEPHANIE: Oh hi. I'm Stephanie Slagle. I work with sales teams. ZAK: Stephanie and I work for the same company, Graham Media. She's a gem.STEPHANIE: I'm a very high-energy person. I'm kind of always like, bleeeeeee. I actually had a mentor of mine tell me long, long ago that when someone goes up you go down. And what he meant by that was when...
2021-01-28
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Analyzing Envy with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies & Outer Order, Inner Calm. Her podcast is Happier with Gretchen Rubin. ---Doing Without Delay with Gretchen Rubin - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/202083_doing-without-delay-with-gretchen-rubin/Living the Bigger Life with Gretchen Rubin - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020928_living-the-bigger-life-with-gretchen-rubin/---To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Before Gretchen Rubin was a best-selling author on the subject of happiness and habits and human nature, she was a...
2021-01-20
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Minimizing with Brody
Brody is 11 years-old. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff you've collected over the course of your life? Do you want to start getting rid of it but don't know how? Well, today I've got some advice for you. Ok, nephew Brody. It's mid-January and you guys have been doing something kind of interesting this month.BRODY: Yeah, so, for this month everyday we have been trying to give away things. So for the first day, we gave...
2021-01-19
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Creating Autonomous Zones with Holly Wren Spaulding
Holly Wren Spaulding (hollywrens) is a writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist and author of ‘Familiars’ and other books and the founder of Poetry Forge. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Whether you have five minutes or five hours, today's advice is to create your own autonomous zone.HOLLY: In other words, to have free spaces in your life free of other people, free of the profit motive, you know the pressure to be earning a living during that time. Free of interruption. Free of social media. Free of du...
2021-01-07
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Following Rabbit Holes with Jordan Brown
Jordan Brown is an educator and creator living in Sacramento, California.He makes music here - https://soundcloud.com/doinsomethin--Stupid Taxing with Jordan Brown (a different Jordan Brown) - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020528_stupid-taxing-with-jb/TRANSCRIPT: JORDAN: What's up, Zak. My name is Jordan Brown. I'm an educator, traveler, creator. I live in Sacramento, California. My advice is, when listened to music always check the liner notes. Always read the liner notes. When you're listening to records or CDs, look on the back of them and see who...
2021-01-05
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Best of the Best Advice, Pt. 2
This week I'm sharing some of your favorite episodes of the year. Today, Doing the Dishes with Sam and Hannah + an impassioned rebuttal from Hannah Wolfman-Arent.Don't miss Sam's brother and mother and their amazing advice from earlier in the year!Remembering with Andrew Langberg - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020826_remembering-with-andrew-langberg/Waking Up with Lois Langberg - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020106_waking-up-with-lois-langberg/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show...
2020-12-15
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Killing Comfort with Nichole Christian
Nichole Christian is a writer, artist and mother from Detroit. I want to collect your favorite advice from this year. The advice that you're actually practicing in real life that you learned from this show. Tell me what that is by writing me at ZAK@BESTADVICE.SHOW. Or you can call the hotline, 844-935-BEST. I'm gonna collect your responses about the best, Best Advice, and put together a week or two of greatest hits episodes. Embracing Discomfort with Wendy Walters - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/20201019_embracing-discomfort-with-wendy-s--walters/TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Since the...
2020-12-03
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
What's the Best of the Best Advice?
Maybe I'm more tired than I realized. The episode that was supposed to run today, Grandparent Advice with Sam Greenspan and Renée Wolf McKible, I accidentally launched on Saturday. Whoops! So, what should have been today's episode is already in your feed. Don't miss it! It's part 1 of an ongoing series I'm really excited about featuring your grandparents best advice.But as long as I've got you here, I want to ask, what advice from this show have you actually integrated into your life? We're over 150 episodes in and I want to start reflecting on some of the...
2020-11-23
01 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Breaking Trances with Dustin Block
Dustin Block is a dad and the audience development lead at Graham Media.Hear Dustin's other episode from TBAS about story-catching here - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020721_storycatching-with-dustin-block/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Yes, I know there's an election tomorrow but I've got bigger fish to fry. There is an entire generation of children lost in a trance. Fortunately for us, Dustin Block has the antidote.DUSTIN: Hey Zak. I just got hit with an idea for some best advice so I wanted...
2020-11-19
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Being Late with Meredith Nicoll
Meredith Nicoll is a musicologist and singer living in Germany.Owning Mistakes with Emily Barr - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/202091_owning-mistakes-with-emily-barr/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: MEREDITH: Hi Zak, this is Meredith and my piece of advice is for chronically tardy people...like myself. hahah. In the past I would show up in a chaotic mess, usually and apologize and say oh my god, I'm so sorry but this and this happened and this and this got in my way and I decided to stop the...
2020-11-05
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Refreshing Yourself with Sara Brooke Curtis
Sara Brooke Curtis (@sbcsays) is a radio producer and writer living in Western, Massachusetts.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Today's advice could be a game-changer. It's not gonna be easy, though.SARA: So, what if every-time you get the impulse to obsessively refresh your email, instead you do a little dance, you take a breath, eat a piece of fruit, call a friend, even just look outside. See what that does for you instead.ZAK: I mean, I guarantee that that is gonna...
2020-11-04
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Sitting in Silence with Sua Im
Sua Im is a teacher in Worchester, Massachusetts.Listening with Rikke Houd - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020713_listening-with-rikke-houd/Listening with Autumn Brown - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020714_listening-with-autumn-brown/Listening with Sterling Toles - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020715_listening-with-sterling-toles/Listening with Eleanor McDowell - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020716_listening-with-eleanor-mcdowell/Listening with Dallas Taylor - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020717_listening-with-dallas-taylor/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Do you know what I love? (Long pause). Silence.SUA: Hi Zak...
2020-10-29
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Demystifying Creation with Jay Acunzo
Jay Acunzo (@jayacunzo) is the founder of Marketing Showrunners. Pair today's show with: Detaching with Hanif Abdurraqib - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020429_detaching-with-hanif-abdurraqib/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Are you feeling creatively stuck or intimidated? If so, today's advice is going to help you to profoundly demystify what it means to make stuff. JAY: First and foremost, creating anything is an act of you trying to understand it. The creator should be, for example, writing to better understand something. Not writing to share...
2020-09-16
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Washing with Jules Yun
Jules cleans their feet in Los Angeles, California.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTMorning Zesting with Drew Philp - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020424_morning-zesting-with-drew-philp/Restarting Your Day with Ken Haddad - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020513_restarting-your-day-with-ken-haddad/TRANSCRIPT: Sound of faucet turning on.JULES: Hi Zak, my name is Jules. I live in LA and my advice is to wash your feet because they often get forgotten and I thought in the shower when you would stand in the shower, your feet would get...
2020-09-09
02 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Walking and Talking with The Maddins
Donna and Micky Maddin walk and talk in Metro-Detroit.Being Close with Michael Franti - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020618_being-close-with-michael-franti/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Donna and Mickey Maddin have been married for a long time.DONNA: 53 years.ZAK: They raised four children together. And it wasn't until after their kids moved out of the house, that they started their almost daily ritual of taking a morning walk together.DONNA: Every morning we gout out between 7 and maybe 8:15 at...
2020-08-25
02 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Talking to your Best Friend with Lauren
Lauren talks to herself like she talks to her bf in Eastern Washington.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:LAUREN: Hi Zak, my name is Lauren and I'm a young-adult living in Eastern Washington. And my advice is that you should talk to yourself like you talk to your best friend. So, for example. If you are feeling really upset about a mistake that you made or maybe a relationship that ended...instead of saying things like, 'ugh, I'm such an idiot.' Or, 'I'm so stupid for doing...
2020-08-19
02 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Liberating with Brenda Strausz
Brenda Strausz is a therapist from Detroit, Michigan.The Marianne Williamson poem from this episode is from 'A Return to Love.' Have you even been liberated in a moment? I want to hear that story. Write to me at Zak@BestAdvice.Show. Talk to you tomorrow.TRANSCRIPT:ZAK: I'm always amazed by stories of people changing in an instant. I think most of us change over time, gradually. But not Brenda Strausz. She was working as an elemnaty school teacher. She loved her students. But, she felt hamstrung....
2020-08-17
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Salting with Shira
Shira Heisler seasons her food in Detroit, Michigan.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: It's Food Friday, and I'm proud to welcome back The Best Advice Show's most prolific advice giver, Shira.SHIRA: So, something that really bothers, as somebody who's pretty into salt and I come from a family, in particular my mother, who's very into salt. She has her own salt shaker at the table. I get very bothered when I'm at somebody's house for dinner, and I want to add salt but there's...
2020-08-14
02 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Circling with Halima Afi Cassells
Halimi Afi Cassells is an artist, mother and gardener from Detroit. Learn more about the Free Market of Detroit here - https://www.facebook.com/freemarketofdetroitTRANSCRIPT:HALIMA: Hi, my name is Halimi Afi Cassells and I am an artist, a mother, a gardener and I'm super happy to be here.ZAK: Halima's great aunt recently turned 100. On her birthday, the family paid a visit to her house.HALIMA: And sat on her porch and talked and gave gifts and you know, just kind of hung out for about...
2020-08-12
03 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Truth-telling with Luis Alejandro Tapia
Luis is a trainer, educator and consultant. Learn more about his work @ LouKnows.com---LOU READS:The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love - bell hooksAll About Love - bell hooksEmergent Strategy - adrienne maree brownA New Earth - Eckhart TolleSacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change - Sherri Mitchell---TRANSCRIPT: LOU: So. my name is Luis Alejandro Tapia. I'm a son of Dominican immigrants. My pronouns are he him and...
2020-08-04
04 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Truth-telling with Lainey
Lainey is seven years-old.To offer your own advice, call me at 844-935-BEST or visit BestAdvice.show Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. ---Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Fill out the TBAS listener survey to help Zak get to know you better.https://forms.gle/f1HxJ45Df4V3m2Dg9---Call...
2020-07-06
02 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Avoiding Rodent Violence with Susan Reed
Susan Reed is a Managing Attorney with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.HEAR our episode on avoiding the stupid tax here: https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020528_stupid-taxing-with-jb/DETROIT FREE PRES: Unusual rodent engine problem has suddenly become 'super common'- https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2020/06/09/rats-rodents-nest-parked-cars-coronavirus/3156961001/So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice. I’m not parti...
2020-06-15
06 min
SoundAdvice
BestAdvice's Later Life Lending Report
Kevin Rose, editor of BestAdvice, discusses the report with Stuart Wilson, corporate marketing director, more2life.
2020-06-05
15 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Working Hard with Lainey
Working hard is worth it. 6 year-old Lainey will tell you why.If you have precocious kids like Laney in your life, I'd love to hear from them! (With you permission of course). So much of this show is going to originate with listeners' hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice, I'm not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I'm after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how y...
2020-04-21
02 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Going Easy on Yourself with Avery Trufelman
Welcome to the first episode of The Best Advice Show! Are you home for the first time in a long time, wanting to finally get started on that creative project? Well, podcast luminary Avery Trufelman has some wise words for you---So much of this show is going to originate with your hard-earned advice. To contribute, please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.Regarding your advice, I'm not particularly interested in platitudes a...
2020-04-20
03 min
SoundAdvice
The coronavirus crisis: what it means for advisers, specialist lenders and the wider mortgage market.
With Robert Sinclair of AMI and Mark Harris from SPF Private Clients.
2020-03-27
12 min
SoundAdvice
All the details from today's Budget.
With John Greenwood of Corporate Adviser, David Copland from TMA and Rory Joseph of JLM Mortgage Services.
2020-03-11
16 min
SoundAdvice
Masthaven’s new online broker portal for short-term lending and why The Nottingham for Intermediaries has moved into limited company buy-to-let.
With: Jon Hall, chief commercial officer and deputy CEO of Masthaven Nikki Warren-Dean, head of intermediary sales at the Nottingham
2020-03-02
12 min
SoundAdvice
A new digital mortgage broker platform from MCI Club, aimed at traditional brokers and why More 2 Life has just launched a Service Promise.
With David Bennett, eKeeper Group and Stuart Wilson, More 2 Life.
2020-02-24
12 min
SoundAdvice
A new service designed to finding the best lender for commercial property cases; software to help advisers maximise client retention and a new mortgage club specifically for the equity release sector.
With: Miranda Khadr, Yellow Stone Finance Jon Tweed, Advise Wise Rameez Zafar, Eligible.ai
2020-02-17
16 min
SoundAdvice
Revamp at the Society of Mortgage Professionals; The competition price war; first time buyers over-stretching; mortgage myths and Air Group’s 2020 Later Life Adviser Conference
With: Dilpreet Bhagrath, Trussle David Thomas, Society of Mortgage Professionals Stuart Wilson, Air Group
2019-12-13
23 min
SoundAdvice
The Nottingham for Intermediaries’ new portal; West Brom's warning; Halifax's 0.98& mortgage; the end of the Help to Buy ISA and Fleet's latest product changes.
With: Steve Cox, Fleet Mortgage Simon Read, journalist and broadcaster Nikki Warren-Dean, Nottingham for Intermediaries
2019-11-29
17 min
SoundAdvice
Major changes to compliance; mortgage price war; effects of criteria loosening; equity release and research into the current plight of prospective first-time buyers
With: Jon Cooper, Aldermore Christine Newell, Paradigm Mortgage Services Owrang Rahmani, Credius Wealth
2019-11-15
20 min
SoundAdvice
The latest trends in bridging; OneFamily’s new ‘super’ LTV lifetime mortgage; free legals; timescales on offers; protection & equity release and competition is hotting up in buy-to-let.
In this episode: With: Paul Bridgwater, OneFamily Gareth Lewis, MT Finance Sebastian Riemann, Libra Financial Planning Angus Stewart, Property Master
2019-11-08
24 min
SoundAdvice
The mixed picture for landlords across the country, mortgage prisoners, confusion over remortgaging, the General Election and what Accord’s new mortgage platform will mean for brokers.
With: Jeremy Duncombe, Accord Mortgages John Heron, Paragon Mortgages Simon Read, journalist and broadcaster
2019-11-01
21 min
SoundAdvice
New equity release distribution; Help to Buy staircasing; the London market; face to face in equity release and the future of the broker
With: Kevin Beale, Precise Mortgages; Shaun Church, Private Finance; Will Hale, Key and Martin Stewart, London Money
2019-10-25
30 min
SoundAdvice
SoundAdvice - adverse credit, Help to Buy, Brexit, mortgages for IT contractors and Buy for Uni
With: Paul Adams, Pepper Money Tom Gurrie, Vernon Building Society Adam Rockall, Pebbles Mortgage & Protection
2019-10-18
18 min
SoundAdvice
SoundAdvice - 11 October 2019
In this episode: Self-build changes from the Hanley Economic The Saffron’s new expat buy-to-let offering Three of the Best – What’s caught our guest’s eye over the past week? Why the Yorkshire has upped its age criteria and mortgage term With: Anita Arch, Saffron Building Society Jack Leaf, Yorkshire Building Society Rory Joseph, JLM Mortgage Services David Lownds, Hanley Economic Building Society
2019-10-11
22 min
SoundAdvice
SoundAdvice - 4 October 2019
In this episode: Clydesdale Bank’s improvement in contractor mortgage criteria Changing adviser attitudes to equity release Three of the Best - What’s caught our guest's eye over the past week? How technology is helping calculate mortgage affordability With: Andrew Gilbert of LV= Sarah Green of Clydesdale Bank Lewis Lenssen of Mortgage Broker Tools Alastair McKee of One 77 Mortgages
2019-10-04
25 min
SoundAdvice
SoundAdvice - 27 September 2019
In this episode: Struggles for the self-employed The health of the remortgage market Three of the Best - What’s caught our guest's eye over the past week? A new flexible credit facility for landlords and property investors With: Michael Biermann of Selina Finance Nick Chadbourne of LMS Shaun Church of Private Finance Craig McKinlay of Kensington Mortgages
2019-09-27
23 min
SoundAdvice
SoundAdvice 20 September 2019
In this episode: The pros and cons of Retirement Interest Only The surge in enquiries from the over-55s to help their children and grandchildren Three of the Best - What’s caught our guest's eye over the past week? The growth of limited company buy-to-let
2019-09-20
27 min
SoundAdvice
SoundAdvice 13 September 2019
The end of Help to Buy, marketing mortgages to millennials and High Net Worth enquiries.
2019-09-13
33 min