Friendship Conflict, Grief Practices, Family Cookbooks, Guilt-Free Gift Giving and more with Zak on Michigan Public!

Friendship Conflict, Grief Practices, Family Cookbooks, Guilt-Free Gift Giving and more with Zak on Michigan Public!

Author: Zak Rosen December 17, 2025 Duration: 19:39
Zak went on Michigan Public's daily show Stateside to share some weirdly helpful end of year rituals and practices. He shares that segment today. Stateside covers what you need (and want) to know about Michigan. You hear stories from people across the state—from policymakers in Lansing, to entrepreneurs in Detroit, to artists in Grand Rapids. Tune in every day for in-depth conversations that matter to Michigan. Stateside is hosted by April Baer and produced by Mike Blank and Ronia Cabansag Subscribe to Stateside on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts. Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a station. LISTEN TO WEIRDLY HELPFUL AD-FREE BY BECOMING A PATRON TODAY. GET A WH MUG THERE TOO! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted by Zak Rosen, Weirdly Helpful (which you might remember as The Best Advice Show) operates on a simple, charming premise: the most effective strategies for getting through the day aren't always the most obvious ones. This is a weekly, compact podcast built on the idea that a slight shift in perspective or a deliberately odd action can recalibrate your mood or solve a stubborn problem. Each episode features a different guest contributor sharing one specific, curious tactic they personally use. You won't get lengthy lectures or clinical self-help here. Instead, you'll hear about tangible, often playful experiments and rituals-think of it as a friendly, audio-based swap meet for life hacks that are delightfully left of center. The practices discussed are genuinely unconventional, yet presented with such warmth and clarity that their utility becomes undeniable. It’s that moment of surprised recognition when something seemingly bizarre, like vocalizing frustration in a primal way or transforming a daily routine into a small sensory celebration, clicks into place as profoundly sensible. The podcast lives in the intersection of Education, Fitness, and Mental Health precisely because improving daily life touches all those facets. Rosen curates these conversations to be short bursts of inspiration, leaving you with a single, actionable idea to sit with and perhaps try for yourself, wondering why you hadn't thought of it before. The cumulative effect of listening is a gentle expansion of what you consider helpful, finding value and a bit of magic in the wonderfully strange.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Podcast Episodes
This is How to Aura Farm Without Being Overly Cringe [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:03
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Duration: 10:15
Fabiola Lara is a Chilean-born, Florida-raised artist! She lives in flux of feeling simultaneously too American to be Chilean and too Chilean to be American, and is constantly navigating her identity as a white Latinx an…
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Duration: 13:29
Bridget Thoreson is an award-winning journalist, executive, and creator of the Career River framework. Check out her Weirdly Helpful episode about floating down the career river. --- Listen to WH ad-free by becoming a Pa…
"Hey Buddy!" Let's Talk About Why You Feel Doomed with Andy J. Pizza [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:22
Andy J. Pizza is a New York Times Bestselling author-illustrator of many books for children and adults such as "Invisible Things" and "A Pizza with Everything On It". Pizza is also the creator of the popular podcast Crea…