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The Best Advice ShowNext Time You're Bored Try This with Noa RosenNoa 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. ---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 Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST or...2025-02-0506 min

The Best Advice ShowFlipped Out with Murf Meyer, Chris Gethard and Matt MayerThis story originally aired on the Snap Judgment radio show and podcast. This is “Flipped Out!---The original score for this story was by Renzo Gorrio. It was produced by Zak Rosen with help from John Fecile. You can find all of Snap Judgment’s many years of excellent episodes and stories at SnapJudgement.org. You can also listen to Snap Judgment on any podcast platform!---You can listen to Murf Meyer's show, Self Medicated: Weekly Dose and Chris Gethard’s Beautiful/Anonymous and New Jersey Is the World wherever y...2024-10-2313 min

The Best Advice ShowThe Mortal Mingle with Zak Rosen: How To Say Goodbye To Your PetThis episode was originally made in collaboration with Slate's excellent podcast, How To! Like many pet parents, Zak Rosen and his wife lived for years in a state of denial about their beloved dog, Rumi. Then they learned that Rottweilers only tend to live about eight to 12 years, and there was no denying it: Rumi is already in her twilight years. In the not-so-distant future, they’ll have to make some truly tough decisions.On this episode of How To!, Zak seeks out advice about end-of-life pet care from Dr. Ellen LaFramboise, owner of Crossroads Vet...2024-01-1633 min

The Best Advice ShowWhere We've Been and Where We're GoingToday's episode, a re-run from last year at this time, featured Rabbi Yoni Dahlen, Dr. Erika Bocknek, Michael Franti, Jaye Johnson, Shari Colton, Eric Colton, Caveh Zahedi, Rob Walker, Jessi Hempel, Kevin Kelly, Dan Messé, Ned Specktor, Holly Wren Spaulding, Jo Strausz Rosen, Erica Heilman, Grace Bonney, Rikke Houde, Laura Hawley, Lucy Anderton ---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://f...2023-12-2631 min

The Best Advice ShowDance Dance EvolutionWhat lessons from childhood are you still trying to make sense of? Zak comes across a decades old photo that leads him to literally relive a middle school rite of passage. Other Men Need Help is executive produced, hosted, and written by Mark Pagán. This episode was produced by Zak Rosen, with production help from Caitlin Mae Burke and Shaneez Tyndall. Ben Goldberg, Caitlin Mae Burke, and Rebecca Seidel are lead producers. Navani Otero is producer. Shaneez Tyndall is associate producer. Rebecca Seidel is lead engineer. Ben Gol...2023-06-0630 min

The Best Advice ShowA Spiral Year: 23 voices on change, purpose and meaningToday's episode featured Rabbi Yoni Dahlen, Dr. Erika Bocknek, Michael Franti, Jaye Johnson, Shari Colton, Eric Colton, Caveh Zahedi, Rob Walker, Jessi Hempel, Kevin Kelly, Dan Messé, Ned Specktor, Holly Wren Spaulding, Jo Strausz Rosen, Erica Heilman, Grace Bonney, Rikke Houde, Laura Hawley, Lucy Anderton---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 t...2022-12-2928 min

The Best Advice ShowZak Gives His Advice! with guest host Lauren PassellLauren Passell is founder of Tink Media. She is also the curator of Podcast The Newsletter and Podcast Marketing Magic. Her list of 100 Podcast Marketing tips was called “GOLD” by Glynn Washington, host of Snap Judgment. Lauren has spoken at Podcast Movement about podcast marketing and will be speaking at PodFest in Orlando and SXSW in Austin in 2022.---Listen to Lauren's advice about tapping into childhood!!!!!!!!!---Call Zak with your advice @ 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshow & @muzacharyTWITTER: @muzacharybestadvice.show 2022-12-2213 min

The Best Advice ShowPeople-Pleasing with Emily NaylorEmily Naylor is a audio producer and presenter in LondonTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I was gonna talk to Emily about a few Spanish comprehension strategies she's devised. But then I realized, she and I had something in common.ZAK: Is that a phrase over there, people-pleasing?EMILY: Yeah, it might as well be my middle name to be honest with you, Zak. (Laughter)ZAK: Emily People-Pleasing Naylor. I am Zak People-Pleasing Rosen. It's nice to meet you. (Laughter)2021-07-0704 min

The Best Advice ShowPeople-Pleasing with Emily NaylorEmily Naylor is a audio producer and presenter in London To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I was gonna talk to Emily about a few Spanish comprehension strategies she's devised. But then I realized, she and I had something in common. ZAK: Is that a phrase over there, people-pleasing? EMILY: Yeah, it might as well be my middle name to be honest with you, Zak. (Laughter) ZAK: Emily People-Pleasing Naylor. I am Zak People-Pleasing Rosen. It's nice to meet you. (Laughter) EMILY: You too. Pleasure. Only if you like meeting me. If not then... (Laughter) ...2021-07-0704 min

The Best Advice ShowTransmitting and Receiving with Somi ArianSomi Arian is a tech philosopher, international speaker, entrepreneur, award-winning filmmaker and LinkedIn Top Voice among UK influencers. Her work focuses on the impact of technology on society at large, the future of work and digital marketing.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Today on The Best Advice Show, where do ideas come from?SOMI: I'm Somi Arian. I'm a tech philosopher, entrepreneur, investor, filmmaker, author. One of those things that really helps me in terms of my creativity and what, you know, has helped me b...2021-06-1604 min

The Best Advice ShowEditing Your Fridge with Zoë KomarinZoë Komarin cooks fun, gorgeous, healthy, delicsious food @ ZOEFOODPARTYTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: I'm so excited about today's Food Friday because I'm bringing a returning champion, my friend, the chef, Zoe Food Party.ZOE: My advice is for everyone to take some time once a year or quarterly to Marie Kondo their condiments. Marie Condiment. TM her obviously but also, slash me. The reason being, and I'm sure you can relate. I've actually seen your fridge before so I know this for a fact but if I open my fridge I'm also a culprit. We a...2021-06-0405 min

The Best Advice ShowUPDATE: Resetting with Zak RosenDearest Listener, starting this week, I'm going to put the show out Monday, Wednesday and Friday instead of every weekday. Making TBAS is my favorite thing right now but I have other work responsibilities that require more of my attention. I hope you understand and I thank you so much for your on-going support. Love, z 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 2021-05-2501 min

The Best Advice ShowImposing Deadlines with Laura HerbergLaura Herberg is a reporter in Detroit and the host/creator of COMPLETE ME. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: This episode is a long time coming. 15-months coming, in fact. That's when I recorded this interview originally. I've been holding it because for the most part we haven't been going to many event together, which is starting to change, thank God. And that's what today's advice is about, at least in part. LAURA: So, Zak. You know that I have trouble getting things done. So...2021-05-2403 min

The Best Advice ShowDressing Salads with Aaron MondryAaron Mondry is a journalist and salad maven.PAUSING WITH AARON MONDRY.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: It's Food Friday. And today, we're gonna discuss a long held, deeply felt belief of mine. You don't need to buy salad dressing.AARON: I take 2 parts oil, 1 part vinegar and put them in a glass jar. A reused jam jar is a great option. And I shake it up. That's the really, really basic blueprint for a salad dressing. But there's lots of ways you...2021-05-2105 min

The Best Advice ShowDressing Salads with Aaron MondryAaron Mondry is a journalist and salad maven. PAUSING WITH AARON MONDRY. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: It's Food Friday. And today, we're gonna discuss a long held, deeply felt belief of mine. You don't need to buy salad dressing. AARON: I take 2 parts oil, 1 part vinegar and put them in a glass jar. A reused jam jar is a great option. And I shake it up. That's the really, really basic blueprint for a salad dressing. But there's lots of ways you can vary it and mix it up and make it interesting...2021-05-2105 min

The Best Advice ShowPooping with Kira NewmanDr. Kira Newman is a physician and scientist who studies poop all day. AVOIDING CATASTROPHE WITH BRENDEN MURPHYTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I took a walk this weekend with a gastroenterologist friend of mine. So, of course we're gonna talk about poop. If you could tell everybody who poops one thing, what would you tell them?KIRA: I think if I could just tell them one thing it would be that there's no right number of bowel movements to have. I think...2021-05-1706 min

The Best Advice ShowGiving Effectively with Laura SolomonLaura Solomon is an attorney dedicated to providing specialized, but affordable, legal services to nonprofit, charitable organizations, foundations, business leagues, political action committees, and philanthropic individuals.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: I'm Jewish and in our tradition we have this thing called tzedakah. That's Hebrew word that translates to righteousness. But really tzedakah is this ethical obligation we have. And one of the core tenants of this obligation is that we're supposed to give ten-percent or our income to charity each year or to people or organizations...2021-05-1303 min

The Best Advice ShowCustomizing Rituals with Andy EningerAndy Eninger is an improviser, writer, facilitator and dog dad. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: It's The Best Advice Show where everyday, I invite a different guest on to offer one piece of advice. Today, we're gonna talk about moving through grief in our own unique ways with Andy.ANDY: My father passed away from COVID-related caused a couple months ago.ZAK: Oh man. I'm sorry.ANDY: Yeah. It's been rough on top of a pretty rough year for him and...2021-05-1204 min

The Best Advice ShowSeizing Detours with Dr. Kidada WilliamsDr. Kidada Williams is the host of new podcast, Seizing Freedom, a historian, author and professor of U.S. History, with a focus on African Americans. She is an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University.ZAK: It's The Best Advice Show. I'm here to help.KIDADA: My name is Kidada Williams. I am a history professor at Wayne Statue university. I research and specialize in African American history.ZAK: Kidada is also the host of an important, beautiful new podcast called Seizing Freedom.KIDADA: If you had asked me 10...2021-05-0403 min

The Best Advice ShowStructured Walking with Sharon MashihiAudio artist, screenwriter, performer, and story editor Sharon Mashihi is the creator and host of the podcast Appearances from Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia.Sharon on managing fear and self-doubt, saying yes to your wild ideas, and using rituals to break through creative blocks.Aaron Finbloom and The School of Making ThinkingTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Sharon Mashihi is one of my favorite audio people. One of my favorite artists in general, I'd say. She made this podcast called Appearances, which if you haven't heard yet, just stop this episode and go listen to th...2021-04-2903 min

The Best Advice ShowPerfecting Egg Salad with Nancy KafferNancy Kaffer is a columnist and member of the Detroit Free Press Editorial Board. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:NANCY: I'm a life-long fan of egg salad and I've often thought about how to improve my egg salad. This is slightly controversial. I make my egg salad while the eggs are still warm and everyone I've ever said this to thought it was disgusting and then as soon as they ate it they've been a convert to the warm egg salad theory. So, the way I've started making...2021-04-1604 min

The Best Advice ShowPerfecting Egg Salad with Nancy KafferNancy Kaffer is a columnist and member of the Detroit Free Press Editorial Board. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: NANCY: I'm a life-long fan of egg salad and I've often thought about how to improve my egg salad. This is slightly controversial. I make my egg salad while the eggs are still warm and everyone I've ever said this to thought it was disgusting and then as soon as they ate it they've been a convert to the warm egg salad theory. So, the way I've started making egg salad is put the eggs in...2021-04-1604 min

The Best Advice ShowLetting Go with Gary MackoGary 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...2021-04-1502 min

The Best Advice ShowMorning Routines with Steven HandelSteven Handel is a published author, coach, and creator at The Emotion Machine, a website dedicated to all aspects of psychology and self improvement in the 21st century.Investigating Your Shame with Heather RadkeTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I don't really have a morning routine. I would love to, but I feel like I'm constantly in reaction mode, just basically responding to what the kids need...breakfast, clothes, but still I love hearing about your routines and I'm thinking about the day when I...2021-04-1403 min

The Best Advice ShowSeeking Salt Water with Meiko KrishokMeiko Krishok is the founder and co-operator of Guerrilla Food (GF), a Detroit-based grassroots culinary team that uses food as medicine. GF is the team behind the Pink Flamingo To Go farm-to-table carry-out restaurant in the Palmer Park neighborhood in Detroit and Pink Flamingo popular seasonal vintage food trailer that is located in a community garden in Corktown, Detroit.Meiko was last on the show talking about the ease and joy of growing garlic. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: There was a Danish author named Karen Bli...2021-04-1203 min

The Best Advice ShowUrban Foraging with Jean WilsonJean Wilson is an artist, farmer and urban forager in Detroit. ZAK: Today on The Best Advice Show, I'm dipping into my archives. 13 years ago I got some advice from Detroit farmer and artist, Jean Wilson. She taught me a super effective way to pare down my grocery bills. It's Food Friday. ZAK: It's about 9 o'clock, I just pulled up to a westside, organic market. I'm here with Jean Wilson. So, what are we about to do? JEAN: We're about to dive in a dumpster and look for some fresh produce. ZAK: Are you diving just for yourself? JEAN: I...2021-04-0206 min

The Best Advice ShowUrban Foraging with Jean WilsonJean Wilson is an artist, farmer and urban forager in Detroit.ZAK: Today on The Best Advice Show, I'm dipping into my archives. 13 years ago I got some advice from Detroit farmer and artist, Jean Wilson. She taught me a super effective way to pare down my grocery bills. It's Food Friday.ZAK: It's about 9 o'clock, I just pulled up to a westside, organic market. I'm here with Jean Wilson. So, what are we about to do?JEAN: We're about to dive in a dumpster and look for some fresh produce....2021-04-0206 min

The Best Advice ShowSaying Yes with Marty MaddinMarty 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...2021-03-2404 min

The Best Advice ShowSaying the Nice Thing with Shira Heisler and Evangeline GarreauEvangeline Garreau writes the Good Questions newsletter. Read it!Shira Heisler is a physician and complimenter.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: I'm pleased to welcome back Best Advice Show regular and the love of my life, my wife, Shira.SHIRA: If you have a compliment for anyone. Like, if it just crossed your mind and you're like, hey, that guy has beautiful eyes. Or, oh, you're really kind and generous. Or, you look pretty today. Whatever compliment you have for anybody who crosses...2021-03-2203 min

The Best Advice ShowStarting Young with Dr. Celeste HolbrookDr. 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.Show TRANSCRIPT: 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 be suitable for children. But it also may be suitable for children. ZAK...2021-03-1003 min

The Best Advice ShowStarting Young with Dr. Celeste HolbrookDr. 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...2021-03-1003 min

The Best Advice ShowUsing Your Joy with Amanda AlexanderAmanda Alexander is the founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center.How Black women have built movements and cultivated joy by Amanda Alexander https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/11/opinion/how-black-women-have-built-movements-cultivated-joy/The Club From Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights https://www.npr.org/2005/03/04/4509998/the-club-from-nowhere-cooking-for-civil-rightsTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Every Friday on the show we talk food. Today's episode is also the final installment of Amanda Alexander week. Amanda is the founder of the Detroit Justice Center.AMANDA: We're lawyers who support people's movements...2021-03-0504 min

The Best Advice ShowAdmiring Ease with Amanda AlexanderAmanda Alexander is the founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center.How Black women have built movements and cultivated joy by Amanda Alexander https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/11/opinion/how-black-women-have-built-movements-cultivated-joy/TRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Welcome back to my week-long series of advice with Amanda Alexander.AMANDA: The founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center. We're lawyers support people's movements here in the city and who are fighting for a world without jails and prisons.ZAK: Earlier this year, Amanda wrote a letter to her young niece, Fiona. She wrote it...2021-03-0403 min

The Best Advice ShowQuoting Yourself with Alexandra CohlAlexandra Cohl (@pod.draland) is the host of The Pod Broads podcast. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Are you someone who wants to be heard but you feel a little nervous to actually come out and say the thing?ALEXANDRA: And someone who wants to connect with other people and feel seen and help other people feel seen and someone who ultimately does like to share parts of themselves in a public space.ZAK: If so, you should heed Alexandra Cohl's advice, which...2021-02-2403 min

The Best Advice ShowLetting Them Be with Lorraine McDonaldLorraine 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...2021-02-2205 min

The Best Advice ShowQuelling Jealousy with Nicole ThurmanNiccole Thurman is a Los Angeles-based Actress, Improviser and Writer. Most recently, you could catch her on Indebted (NBC), in the movie Desperados (Netflix). A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO) and Shrill (Hulu).To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: NICCOLE: I'm Niccole Thurman. I'm an actress. I'm a writer. I do comedy. I'm a cool aunt. Those are my jobs.ZAK: There's this mantra Nicolle has for herself. Don't get jealous. Just work harder. NICCOLE: Cause, of course you're gonna get jealous and want to...2021-02-1703 min

The Best Advice ShowGame-ifying Cooking with AlAl is a professor and created the Single Folks Food Tumblr. https://singlefolksfood.tumblr.com/ To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Every Friday on the show, we do something Food-related. But it's still relationship week so today I'm gonna combine the two with Al. ZAK: You ever eat off the spatula? AL: Oh yeah! Laughter ZAK: Awhile ago, Al was going through a break-up AL: And I had been living with that person for 2 years and we did all of our chores together. We did the cooking, the laundry, the everything and so now the...2021-02-1203 min

The Best Advice ShowGame-ifying Cooking with AlAl is a professor and created the Single Folks Food Tumblr.https://singlefolksfood.tumblr.com/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Every Friday on the show, we do something Food-related. But it's still relationship week so today I'm gonna combine the two with Al.ZAK: You ever eat off the spatula?AL: Oh yeah! LaughterZAK: Awhile ago, Al was going through a break-upAL: And I had been living with that person for 2 years and we did...2021-02-1203 min

The Best Advice ShowLetting it Go with Lindsey MaddinLindsey Maddin is a legendary mother, daughter, sister and friend from Metro-Detroit. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: It's relationship advice week and today, my older sister Lindsey and I are going to talk about nit-picking.LINDSEY: With your partner, spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend. Just think, if you're really annoyed at something and think you're about to get into a fight...Sometimes people get annoyed at how their partner loads the dishwasher. Maybe just let them load the dishwasher and don't make it a whole thing.2021-02-1102 min

The Best Advice ShowEmphasizing Your Quirks with Conor BarnesConor Barnes write the blog, ideopunk. Check out his expansive list of 100 tips for a better life. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: This week on the show, I'm sharing relationship advice. And today, I've got something for you to think about next time you're on a date and really, next time you're getting to know anyone new. ZAK: My guest is Conor Barnes and his advice is inspired by a book called Models by Mark Manson. Here's how Conor articulates a piece of Manson's dating advice. CONOR: When dating, de-emphasizing your quirks will lead...2021-02-1005 min

The Best Advice ShowEmphasizing Your Quirks with Conor BarnesConor Barnes write the blog, ideopunk. Check out his expansive list of 100 tips for a better life. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: This week on the show, I'm sharing relationship advice. And today, I've got something for you to think about next time you're on a date and really, next time you're getting to know anyone new. ZAK: My guest is Conor Barnes and his advice is inspired by a book called Models by Mark Manson. Here's how Conor articulates a piece of Manson's dating...2021-02-1005 min

The Best Advice ShowSpontaneous Transformation with AprilRoseApril is the host of, AprilRose Speaking available wherever you listen to podcasts. https://anchor.fm/april-stephens/episodes/Ep--53-Why-Business-Women-should-Acquire-Negotiating-Skills-elfprnTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: A little while ago I started collecting your grandparent's best advice. Or just things they did or said that stuck with you in someway. It started with Sam and his grandma.SAM: And the only piece of advice I ever heard her give was, be polite and do whatever the hell you want. And that is what's on...2021-02-0904 min

The Best Advice ShowPracticing Impressions with Josh RubenJosh Ruben is an award-winning actor, writer, and director whose feature film SCARE ME - which he wrote, produced, directed & starred alongside Aya Cash and Chris Redd - debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. -- You Made it Weird #210 with Josh Ruben - https://archive.nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-210-josh-ruben/ -- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST -- TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: When I need to laugh until it hurts. Like, keep over laugh, my go to source is this one episode of a podcast I like called, You Made it Weird. JOSH RUBEN ON YOU MADE IT WEIRD: Well, t...2021-02-0304 min

The Best Advice ShowPracticing Impressions with Josh RubenJosh Ruben is an award-winning actor, writer, and director whose feature film SCARE ME - which he wrote, produced, directed & starred alongside Aya Cash and Chris Redd - debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.--You Made it Weird #210 with Josh Ruben - https://archive.nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-210-josh-ruben/--To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST--TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: When I need to laugh until it hurts. Like, keep over laugh, my go to source is this one episode of a podcast I...2021-02-0304 min

The Best Advice ShowTapping Into Childhood with Lauren PassellLauren Passell is founder of Tink Media and co-founder of Lasso Audio, the first management company and agency for podcasters. She is also the curator of Podcast The Newsletter. SUBSCRIBE to Podcast, The Newsletter - https://podcastthenewsletter.substack.com/ -- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST -- TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: When I set out to make this show, I couldn't have predicted the predominance of shower advice. But here I am with the 4th episode devoted to shower or bath advice. It started with Drew in episode 5 and how he likes to start his days with an orange...2021-02-0204 min

The Best Advice ShowTapping Into Childhood with Lauren PassellLauren Passell is founder of Tink Media and co-founder of Lasso Audio, the first management company and agency for podcasters. She is also the curator of Podcast The Newsletter. SUBSCRIBE to Podcast, The Newsletter - https://podcastthenewsletter.substack.com/--To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST--TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: When I set out to make this show, I couldn't have predicted the predominance of shower advice. But here I am with the 4th episode devoted to shower or bath advice. It started with Drew...2021-02-0204 min

The Best Advice ShowAmusing Yourself with Cheri PassellCheri Passell runs I Love Italian Movies.com and runs Barbie_Snack on Instagram. -- Always Beginning with Norene Cashen - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/2020105_always-beginning-with-norene-cashen/ -- To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: My guest today, Cheri Passell, has some advice particularly for woman over 40. But I think it applies to all of us. CHERI: This sounds so trite, but my advice is to never stop dreaming and to dream big. And it's not as trite as it sounds because something happens to woman, woman over 40. It happens to men to but not as much...2021-02-0104 min

The Best Advice ShowLeavening with Michael StrauszMichael Strausz is a sourdough enthusiast, baking in Fort Worth, Texas. Starter-Along Sourdough Pizza Recipe | Serious Eats -https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/12/starter-along-sourdough-pizza.htmlTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: We've come to the end of another week of The Best Advice Show. It's Food Friday. If you have some food-related advice for me, call me on the hotline at 844-935-BEST.MICHAEL: I mean, it's pretty cliched, but it was during the pandemic, I think a few months in and my spouse, Kate...2021-01-2903 min

The Best Advice ShowBringing it Down with Stephanie SlagleStephanie 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...2021-01-2802 min

The Best Advice ShowAvoiding Catastrophe with Brenden MurphyBrenden Murphy is an amateur plumber from Michigan.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Today's episode is a little longer than usual, but it contains some advice that you are going to carry with you for the rest of time. There are few things more terrifying than this moment.ZAK: Ok, I'm in my bathroom. I'm just wondering if you can tell me how you became an amateur plumber.BRENDEN: Well, in my life, toilets seem...2021-01-2706 min

The Best Advice ShowAvoiding Catastrophe with Brenden MurphyBrenden Murphy is an amateur plumber from Michigan. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Today's episode is a little longer than usual, but it contains some advice that you are going to carry with you for the rest of time. There are few things more terrifying than this moment. ZAK: Ok, I'm in my bathroom. I'm just wondering if you can tell me how you became an amateur plumber. BRENDEN: Well, in my life, toilets seem to get clogged a lot. As embarrassing as that is to...2021-01-2706 min

The Best Advice ShowDrive-By Hugging with BrianBrian is a husband, father and hugger from the Midwest.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTZAK: Brian is from the Midwest. He works in insurance. His daughter is grown now, but when she was a little kid.BRIAN: I noticed a funny thing. She was a pretty easy kid to raise but if she was ever upset or crying or cranky, hungry, tired...if you sat down on her level and just pulled her in for a little bit and if you'd feel her take a deep breath and...2021-01-2603 min

The Best Advice ShowDrive-By Hugging with BrianBrian is a husband, father and hugger from the Midwest. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST ZAK: Brian is from the Midwest. He works in insurance. His daughter is grown now, but when she was a little kid. BRIAN: I noticed a funny thing. She was a pretty easy kid to raise but if she was ever upset or crying or cranky, hungry, tired...if you sat down on her level and just pulled her in for a little bit and if you'd feel her take a deep breath and she would just let go. And I...2021-01-2603 min

The Best Advice ShowGenerating Energy with LaineyLainey is 7 years-old and a motivational speaker based in Michigan. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: My niece has been getting really into cooking. And the other day she made something she was really proud of.LAINEY: A whole chicken. Like, it's not just chicken thighs or chicken nuggets. It's an entire chicken without the head. ZAK: Right, the full chicken, minus the head. Yeah. Can you describe what you had to do to make it?LAINEY: You need to take the...2021-01-2203 min

The Best Advice ShowGenerating Energy with LaineyLainey is 7 years-old and a motivational speaker based in Michigan. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: My niece has been getting really into cooking. And the other day she made something she was really proud of. LAINEY: A whole chicken. Like, it's not just chicken thighs or chicken nuggets. It's an entire chicken without the head. ZAK: Right, the full chicken, minus the head. Yeah. Can you describe what you had to do to make it? LAINEY: You need to take the giblets out of the chicken which is basically the insides of it. And...2021-01-2203 min

The Best Advice ShowMinimizing with BrodyBrody 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...2021-01-1903 min

The Best Advice ShowMinimizing with BrodyBrody is 11 years-old. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: 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 away one thing. Second day, we gave away two...2021-01-1903 min

The Best Advice ShowEvolving Goals with Amy Shira TeitelAmy Shira Teitel is a space flight historian, author, YouTuber, public speaker and occasional TV personality. Her book is Fighting For Space. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: Today's advice comes in the form of the life-story of a woman born in 1905 in the Florida panhandle. Bessie Pitman grew up poor. She became a teenage mom. And she lost her son in a house fire when he was just 5 years old. AMY: And didn't get along with the rest of her family. And when she was 23, she...2021-01-1102 min

The Best Advice ShowCreating Autonomous Zones with Holly Wren SpauldingHolly 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...2021-01-0703 min

The Best Advice ShowCare-Thinking with Asaya, Jiro and JakeyAsaya Plumly, Jakey Erwin and Jiro Root are members of CareThinc.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ASAYA: Hi Zak, my name is Asaya.ZAK: Asaya called the advice hotline recently to tell me about this thing that he's been experimenting with.ASAYA: I've been not as active in the streets as I would like to be. So I've been trying to put money where I can. But recently I got together with some people in my family so that we're bundling our money together...2020-12-2202 min

The Best Advice ShowCare-Thinking with Asaya, Jiro and JacobAsaya Plumly, Jacob Erwin and Jiro Root are members of CareThinc. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ASAYA: Hi Zak, my name is Asaya. ZAK: Asaya called the advice hotline recently to tell me about this thing that he's been experimenting with. ASAYA: I've been not as active in the streets as I would like to be. So I've been trying to put money where I can. But recently I got together with some people in my family so that we're bundling our money together and then we kind of research groups in my area or...2020-12-2202 min

The Best Advice ShowEffective Bossing with Marc SummerfieldMarc Summerfield is the author of Leadership: Three Key Employee-Centered Elements with Case Studies - https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Three-Employee-Centered-Elements-Studies/dp/1664130616To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Today's advice is about being a good boss. My guest is Marc Summerfield.MARC: I'm a registered pharmacist and I have managed pharmacies in various health settings for over 45-years and recently I retired. ZAK: Based on Marc's decades working as a boss and doing research, he's distilled what he thinks it takes to be effective down...2020-12-0902 min

The Best Advice ShowNot Being Annoying with Dan LevyDan Levy (danlevyshow) is a writer and comedian living in LA. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: DAN: My name is Dan Levy. I am a dad. A husband. A writer/producer and a comedian, here in Los Angeles, California. I would say my advice would be very simple, which is, never be annoying. No matter what field you are in or trying to get in to. My advice to everyone is don't be annoying. I say this as someone who definitely has gone through annoying phases. But, I...2020-12-0703 min

The Best Advice ShowHoliday Cooking with Abra BerensAbra Berens (@abraberens) is a chef, former farmer, and writer. Her book is Ruffage: A Practical Guide to VegetablesTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: singing: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas or Hanukah or Kwanza, but not really because this year is so weird and doesn't feel like any other year.ABRA: My name is Abra Berens and I am a chef and cookbook author based in Three Oaks, Michigan.ZAK: The holidays are coming up and they're gonna be very...2020-12-0403 min

The Best Advice ShowKilling Comfort with Nichole ChristianNichole 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...2020-12-0303 min

The Best Advice ShowLeftovering with Susannah GoodmanSusannah Goodman is an artist, potter and community organizer in Detroit. I want to start collecting your grandparents best advice. What did they tell you that sticks with you? Let me know by calling the hotline, 844-935-BEST. Talk to you soon. TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Did you make an entire Thanksgiving dinner for a bunch of people this year, even though there were just a few of you eating it? Well, today's advice is for you. It comes from Susannah Goodman. SUSANNAH: I'm an artist and potter and community organizer in Detroit. 2020-11-2703 min

The Best Advice ShowTempering Disappointment with Chelsea DevantezChelsea Devantez (chelseadevantez) is a comedian, TV writer, filmmaker host of podcast, Celebrity Book Club. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Chelsea Devantez is a very busy creative person.CHELSEA: I am a comedian, TV writer and filmmaker and I also have a podcast called, Celebrity Book Club where I recap and celebrate really great female, celebrity memoirs with a new guest every week.ZAK: A while ago, Chelsea figured out a way to temper her disappointment. It might work for you too.2020-11-2502 min

The Best Advice ShowBreaking from the Barrage with Samantha ScottSamantha Scott is a content producer at the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcMTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: In COVID times we're meeting strangers so rarely now. I miss it. And so when I get the chance to talk to someone I don't know, I really relish it. That's what happened when I met Samantha at the dog park. Our dogs were bonding and soon we were...2020-11-1703 min

The Best Advice ShowFinding the Right Person with Matt LipsteinMatt Lipstein lives in Austin, Texas. He hosts a weekly radio show on KOOP-FM called Free Samples and he makes ambient music under the name, The Moss End. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: 10 years ago, Matt was living in Brooklyn. It was a cold, January morning after a snowstorm. MATT: And I was heading out to our car which was parked on the street as you do and when I went up to the car, I noticed something was amiss and I went to turn the car on and all the lights came up...2020-11-1100 min

The Best Advice ShowOptimizing Eggs with Laura Idema Shaunette and Lywen ChewLaura Idema Shaunette and Lywen Chew have two ways to impress your palate and your friends with eggs. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Welcome to another addition of Food Friday on The Best Advice Show. Today I've got a twofer. Two pieces of advice on optimizing eggs.LAURA: Hi Zak. This is Laura and I just wanted to call in to share some of my best advice in regards to making a really mean frittata. So in a greased pie dish or cast-iron pan. Whatever...2020-11-0602 min

The Best Advice ShowRefreshing Yourself with Sara Brooke CurtisSara 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...2020-11-0402 min

The Best Advice ShowVoting with John Lewis, Susan B. Anthony, Barack Obama, Alan Moore and NoaZAK: It's Tuesday, November 3rd and today's advice is simple and it's profound and it comes from a chorus of voices including my 3 year-old daughter. NOA: Go vote.ZAK: Go vote. The late John Lewis said, "The vote is precious. It is the most powerful, non-violent tool we have in a democratic society and we must use it."NOA: Go vote. ZAK: "Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it." - Susan B. Anthony.NOA: Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.ZAK: "There's no such thing as...2020-11-0301 min

The Best Advice ShowWeighing Options with Greg FoxGreg Fox (@gdfx) is a composer, drummer, teacher and coach. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: You might be a freelancer or an artist or just someone trying to figure out what to do next. I think today's advice is gonna be especially helpful if you check any of those boxes. It's gonna help you narrow your focus and figure out what's really important.GREG: My name's Greg Fox. I'm a human being. And I play music. I run a music studio. I teach drumming and...2020-10-1503 min

The Best Advice ShowSplitting with ShiraZAK: Back here with regular contributor, Shira.SHIRA: Hi everyone.ZAK: You have another gem for us today for Food Friday?SHIRA: Yeah, this is my advice called splitsies.theme musicSHIRA: So I think, in general, whether it be you're out to dinner with your partner, your friend...I advocate for a splitsies set-up and this means that we get two dishes and we split them. And I think that this is a good practice on multiple levels. First of all, you get to try two dishes instead...2020-10-0904 min

The Best Advice ShowSplitting with ShiraZAK: Back here with regular contributor, Shira. SHIRA: Hi everyone. ZAK: You have another gem for us today for Food Friday? SHIRA: Yeah, this is my advice called splitsies. theme music SHIRA: So I think, in general, whether it be you're out to dinner with your partner, your friend...I advocate for a splitsies set-up and this means that we get two dishes and we split them. And I think that this is a good practice on multiple levels. First of all, you get to try two dishes instead of one. But maybe even a more essential thing is that...2020-10-0900 min

The Best Advice ShowAlways Beginning with Norene CashenNorene Cashen (@there.is.a.light.somewhere) is a life-long learner, therapist, poet, coach and writer. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:NORENE: My advice is, if you want to have an ageless mindset, always be a beginner at something.theme musicNORENE: I'm 52 and I don't feel it and I think that's probably because I'm constantly on these adventures to try something new and to evolve and grow and change. I got a couple of masters degrees, one when I was just gonna turn 50 and...2020-10-0503 min

The Best Advice ShowTracking Sleepy Foods with Polly WashburnPolly Washburn (@pollywashburn) makes things in Denver, Colorado. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: POLLY: I'm Polly Washburn and I live in Denver, Colorado and I would recommend that you figure out your sleepy foods. So when I was about 30, I read a book about sugar sensitivity and was like, Me. Me. Me. This is me. And so I started out cutting out sugar. And so my basic advice would be to, it's not like you can never eat sugar or whatever you find out is your sleepy food. But, don't have it during the day...2020-09-2502 min

The Best Advice ShowTracking Sleepy Foods with Polly WashburnPolly Washburn (@pollywashburn) makes things in Denver, Colorado. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: POLLY: I'm Polly Washburn and I live in Denver, Colorado and I would recommend that you figure out your sleepy foods. So when I was about 30, I read a book about sugar sensitivity and was like, Me. Me. Me. This is me. And so I started out cutting out sugar. And so my basic advice would be to, it's not like you can never eat sugar or whatever you find out is your sleepy food...2020-09-2502 min

The Best Advice ShowLaunching with Emilee SpeckEmilee Speck is the host of Space Curious.Upcoming Rocket Launches - https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar?pageindex=1TRANSCRIPT: EMILEE: My name is Emilee Speck. I'm a space reporter and digital journalist for WKMG in Orlando, Florida and I host Space Curious.ZAK: In her personal and professional life. Emilee has gone to a ton of rocket launches. And she has some advice for you in case you're gonna go to one, which is possible in a handful of states. Or if you're just gonna watch it online....2020-09-2403 min

The Best Advice ShowLaunching with Emilee SpeckEmilee Speck is the host of Space Curious. Upcoming Rocket Launches - https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar?pageindex=1 TRANSCRIPT: EMILEE: My name is Emilee Speck. I'm a space reporter and digital journalist for WKMG in Orlando, Florida and I host Space Curious. ZAK: In her personal and professional life. Emilee has gone to a ton of rocket launches. And she has some advice for you in case you're gonna go to one, which is possible in a handful of states. Or if you're just gonna watch it online. EMILEE: If you've never been to a launch before. The number...2020-09-2403 min

The Best Advice ShowPlanting Seeds with Matt Berninger (from The National)Matt Berninger (greengloves777) is the lead singer of The National. His solo album, Serpentine Prison, is out October, 2nd.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: If you're working on a creative project...it's so important to pay attention to your boredom.MATT: If you're bored, you're not making art.ZAK: Do you have like a boredom defense strategy?MATT: If I'm working on something and I'm not excited. If I'm working on a song and I don't jump up and high five...2020-09-2302 min

The Best Advice ShowPlanting Seeds with Matt BerningerMatt Berninger (greengloves777) is the lead singer of The National. His solo album, Serpentine Prison, is out October, 2nd. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: If you're working on a creative project...it's so important to pay attention to your boredom. MATT: If you're bored, you're not making art. ZAK: Do you have like a boredom defense strategy? MATT: If I'm working on something and I'm not excited. If I'm working on a song and I don't jump up and high five myself or cry then I don't know what I'm doing. ZAK: Matt Berninger...2020-09-2302 min

The Best Advice ShowAsking with Rob St. MaryRob St. Mary is the author of The Orbit Magazine AnthologyTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ROB: The phrase that pays, as I like to say is, it's better they say no than to not know.ZAK: It's better they say no than to not know.ROB: That's right. If there's a question you want to ask. If there's an idea that you have...just ask it. Just say it. Just come out with it. You know, um, it's better to do that than...2020-09-2103 min

The Best Advice ShowAsking with Rob St. MaryRob St. Mary is the author of The Orbit Magazine Anthology To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ROB: The phrase that pays, as I like to say is, it's better they say no than to not know. ZAK: It's better they say no than to not know. ROB: That's right. If there's a question you want to ask. If there's an idea that you have...just ask it. Just say it. Just come out with it. You know, um, it's better to do that than to, you know, walk away or to not get that opportunity...2020-09-2102 min

The Best Advice ShowMaking Sanctuary with Jo Strausz RosenJo Strausz Rosen (@bubjo) creates in Metro-Detroit. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT:ZAK: From my childhood backyard, I'm pleased to welcome to the show today...my mom.JO: Ever since I created this outdoor space in my garden, its been such a healing place for me to come and paint all of the feelings that I have from the political upheaval through COVID. So I feel like painting alone, surrounded by beauty and nature helps me figure it all out and helps me get my head...2020-09-1703 min

The Best Advice ShowMaking Sanctuary with Jo Strausz RosenJo Strausz Rosen (@bubjo) creates in Metro-Detroit. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: From my childhood backyard, I'm pleased to welcome to the show today...my mom. JO: Ever since I created this outdoor space in my garden, its been such a healing place for me to come and paint all of the feelings that I have from the political upheaval through COVID. So I feel like painting alone, surrounded by beauty and nature helps me figure it all out and helps me get my head around it. Recently I spray-painted by some huge canvases...2020-09-1703 min

The Best Advice ShowFinding Hope with Steven GarzaSteven Garza is one of the main subjects in the spectacular documentary, Boys State. He's currently a student at the University of Texas.Boys State | Official Trailer HD | A24 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Kh_T5ZBIMTo offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: I consider myself of connoisseur of movie trailers. And the trailer for the documentary, Boys State, blew me away. The film is about over a thousand teenage boys from Texas who spend a week of their summer building their own government.2020-09-1404 min

The Best Advice ShowFinding Hope with Steven GarzaSteven Garza is one of the main subjects in the spectacular documentary, Boys State. He's currently a student at the University of Texas. Boys State | Official Trailer HD | A24 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Kh_T5ZBIM To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: I consider myself of connoisseur of movie trailers. And the trailer for the documentary, Boys State, blew me away. The film is about over a thousand teenage boys from Texas who spend a week of their summer building their own government. TRAILER: My name is Steven Garza and I'm running...2020-09-1404 min

The Best Advice ShowIterating Gradually with Christine BuckleyChristine Buckley is the author of Plant Magic: Herbalism in Real Life.More on Asclepius - https://www.ancient.eu/Asclepius/To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTCHRISTINE: This is advice that's attributed to, I think a demigod.ZAK: The only demigod I know is Maui from Moana.CHRISTINE: Oh yeah, that's a good Demigod. I should watch Moana tonight.ZAK: It's really good. Who is this demigod?CHRISTINE: I actually don't know how to pronounce his name but Asclepius of Thessaly...2020-09-1003 min

The Best Advice ShowIterating Gradually with Christine BuckleyChristine Buckley is the author of Plant Magic: Herbalism in Real Life. More on Asclepius - https://www.ancient.eu/Asclepius/ To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST CHRISTINE: This is advice that's attributed to, I think a demigod. ZAK: The only demigod I know is Maui from Moana. CHRISTINE: Oh yeah, that's a good Demigod. I should watch Moana tonight. ZAK: It's really good. Who is this demigod? CHRISTINE: I actually don't know how to pronounce his name but Asclepius of Thessaly. He was the son of Apollo. ZAK: I looked it up. It's actually Asclepius. He...2020-09-1003 min

The Best Advice ShowImproving Mondays with Patia BraithwaitePatia Braithwaite is Senior Health Editor at SELF Magazine8 Tiny Things I’ve Tried to Make Mondays More Pleasant - https://www.self.com/story/monday-morning-tipsTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: You call it the Sunday scaries. I've always thought of them as the Sunday blues but I think we're talking about the same thing.PATIA: Absolute. It's that feeling of dread, sadness. It's like that realization that the weekend is going to end.ZAK: It's so real.PATIA: My name is Patia Braithwaite. I'm a Senior Health Editor at SE...2020-08-2702 min

The Best Advice ShowWalking and Talking with The MaddinsDonna 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...2020-08-2501 min

The Best Advice ShowDecaffeinating with Allie ZeffAllie Zeff drinks coffee from her home in Detroit. Hastening Slowly with Merrill Garbus - https://bestadvice.show/episodes/202069_hastening-slowly-with-merrill-garbus--from-tune-yards-/ To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: In the meantime, you want to do some coffee talk? ALLIE: Yes. With Linda Richman. I am Allie Zeff and I am an organizer for an organization called Detroit Jews for justice. And I have a cute dog. ZAK: So tell me about your, your history of, of coffee ALLIE: High school. I would say my mom, I think quickly figured out that like having a cup of coffee...2020-08-2104 min

The Best Advice ShowBribing with Rachel LeeRachel Lee is a mother and family medicine doctor from Detroit. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: RACHEL: So my name is Rachel. I am a mom of two kids and my best advice is to bribe your child, your young child, to go on hikes with you by giving them a sucker for the duration of the hike.ZAK: He's like walking along with you or he's in a back-pack?RACHEL: No, no, he's walking along with us. When we bribed him the first...2020-08-1801 min

The Best Advice ShowLiberating with Brenda StrauszBrenda 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....2020-08-1703 min

The Best Advice ShowMeal Planning with Michael StrauszMichael Strausz is an associate professor of political science at Texas Christian University.To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST.TRANSCRIPT:ZAK: One thing I really miss from pre-COVID days is hosting dinner parties. One day, I hope soon, we're going to get back to that point where we can safely invite people into our house, but until then we can dream about dinner parties and what we want to make, and we can learn how to be most prepared to host dinner parties.ZAK: Today, cousin Mike, we're...2020-08-0703 min

The Best Advice ShowMeal Planning with Michael StrauszMichael Strausz is an associate professor of political science at Texas Christian University. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST. TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: One thing I really miss from pre-COVID days is hosting dinner parties. One day, I hope soon, we're going to get back to that point where we can safely invite people into our house, but until then we can dream about dinner parties and what we want to make, and we can learn how to be most prepared to host dinner parties. ZAK: Today, cousin Mike, we're going to talk about meal planning, right? MICHAEL: Yes...2020-08-0703 min

The Best Advice ShowDrinking with Judy RosenJudy Rosen is a psychotherapist living in New York City. 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 and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.2020-06-2203 min

The Best Advice ShowReheating with Howard RosenHoward Rosen refreshes his leftovers from a suburb north of Detroit. 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 and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.2020-05-2201 min