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
Next Time You're Bored Try This with Noa Rosen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:51
Noa 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…
Pack Your Go Bag with adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:05
adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown are sisters, authors, artists and co-hosts of How to Survive the End of the World. Inspired by wisdom from Octavia Butler's ⁠Parable of the Sower⁠ and a listener's inquiry, Zak and t…
Compare Yourself to Yourself with Billie Lunt [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:53
Billie Lunt is a Professor, Mentor, and Coach for students aspiring to enter the field of dental hygiene. She helps students to set goals and develop the skills required to achieve them. On the path to becoming a dental…
How To Fall Asleep [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:23
The TBAS sleep correspondents featured in today's episode are Courtney Daniels, Jenny Lee, Karen Semone, Lois Langberg and Tiffany Paulsen. --- Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ h…
You Need to Get Rejected A LOT MORE with Alice Draper [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:06
Alice Draper shares her experience with rejection and how it can lead to greater success, both personally and professionally and then she offers strategies for all of us to build our own rejection resilience muscle. Alic…
Manifesting Someone To Watch Over You with Cassandra Jenkins [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:55
Zak meets up with one of his favorite songwriters, Cassandra Jenkins, before her show in Amsterdam. They talk about her pre-show ritual, inspired by her friend, Erika Spring. It's something we can all try next time we're…
Finding Grace Inside Political Chaos with Sarah-Marie Hopf [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:19
Sarah-Marie Hopf shares advice on how we can cultivate a mindset of goodness, even in the face of overwhelming political frustration. After the recent election, a lot us feel cynical and angry, but Sarah-Marie shares pow…