This is WEIRDLY HELPFUL!

This is WEIRDLY HELPFUL!

Author: Zak Rosen October 27, 2025 Duration: 4:11
Welcome to Weirdly Helpful. It's like The Best Advice show just weirder. In each episode a different contributor offers an odd experiment, a silly ritual, a curious practice that you’ll find weirdly helpful. Stuff like howling when you're despondent, eating oranges in the shower and metaphorically flushing your adversary down the toilet! What are you finding weirdly helpful during these trying times? CALL ZAK ON THE WEIRDLY HELPLINE and spill your guts @ 844-935-2378 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: 100

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)
Podcast Episodes
What's the Deal with Handshaking in 2025? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:01
Lizzie Post is the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, and author of Emily Post's Etiquette - The Centennial Edition, and Higher Etiquette, as well as Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette 6th edition, and The Etiquette Ad…
The Best Advice Show is Dead. This is Weirdly Helpful! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:46
Zak is excited to present Weirdly Helpful, the spiritual successor to The Best Advice Show. On this first episode, Zak talks to artist and therapist, Laura Hawley whose advice from 2020 inspired the new show title. --- T…
If Ambition Is Making You Unhappy with Courtney Daniels [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:41
This is an episode of a new podcast I really like called Gen X at Midlife. The show was created by TBAS contributor, Courtney Daniels. In this episode she talks to her longtime friend Tess Hawes about her experience of m…
The True Meaning of Discipline with John Cage and Mason Currey [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:23
Today's episode is based on Mason Currey's piece, John Cage on the true meaning of discipline. You should subscribe to Mason's essential newsletter, Subtle Maneuvers. And here's his piece about totally insane, unhinged,…
Dogs and Berries Are Miracles. Why Not Combine Them? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:04
Leora is a doctor and dog lover and berry lover. This advice originally aired back in August of 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You Don't Need To Remember Everything with Susannah Goodman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:26
Susannah Goodman is an artist and potter and community organizer in Detroit. --- Leftovering with Susannah Goodman Noticing with Susannah Goodman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Zak interviews his hero Jonathan Goldstein [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:40
I originally interviewed Jonathan Goldstein, creator and host of the greatest podcast of all time, Heavyweight, back in 2017 for Transom.org. I'm playing it here to celebrate Heavyweight's grand return. Learn more about…
Don't Wish Your Life Away with Lilly Turmelle [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:28
Lilly Turmelle is a Maine-based creative and lifelong explorer. After calling many different countries home, she now lives on the Maine coast with her partner and their two-year-old son, embracing a simple life by the se…