The Best Advice Show
Zak Rosen
The Best Advice Show is your reminder that there are weird, delightful and effective ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. In every (very short) episode of the show, a different contributor offers their take on making life more joyful, healthful and livable and it's likely gonna be something you can try today, if you want.
- 21 minutes 19 secondsWhy I'm Not Using the Word "Crazy" Anymore (and Why You Should Just Say What You Actually Mean) with Dessa Cosma
Dessa Cosma is executive director of Detroit Disability Power. Today she schools Zak on the importance of pride-forward language, especially around disability and shares practical tips on self-correction, evolving language, and fostering respect for disability identity.
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11 March 2026, 6:55 am - 14 minutes 3 secondsThis is How to Aura Farm Without Being Overly Cringe
Natalie and Jacob are sibling youths from Texas.
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4 March 2026, 8:21 am - 14 minutes 12 secondsBecome a Receiving Station for Overwhelming Transmissions with Dr. Ramzi Fawaz
Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, educator, podcaster, and public speaker. He is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and host of the podcast Nerd from the Future which introduces you to the best ideas and insights from the nation's leading humanities professors.
In June, Ramzi is leading a 5-day workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California callled The Thrill of Groundlessness: Flowing Through Life Without Absolutes. ENROLL HERE!
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25 February 2026, 8:12 am - 10 minutes 15 secondsStop Feeling Guilty About Your Guilty Pleasures with Fabiola Lara
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 and recent US-citizen.
This episode originally aired in 2022.
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18 February 2026, 5:17 am - 11 minutes 50 secondsThis Insight WILL CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP FOREVER! (For real for real).
Dedeker Winston is a co-host of Mulitamory, relationship coach, writer, and advocate for polyamory and non-traditional relationships. She is the author ofThe Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know about Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love, published by Skyhorse Press.
This episode originally ran in 2023.
Shira Heisler is a prolific and longtime contributor to the show. She was last on to share about talking through grief.
Her advice from today's episode is from 2020.
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11 February 2026, 8:35 am - 15 minutes 33 secondsYoung Butt Cut Zak Confronts His Childhood Creative Monster with Lauren LoGrasso
Lauren LoGrasso is a multi-passionate creative with experience as a keynote speaker, creative coach and musician. She's the creator and host of Unleash Your Inner Creative.
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4 February 2026, 6:00 am - 14 minutes 57 secondsIs Whistling Protected By First Amendment Rights? + An Incantation for Restoring Democracy
Audio from pt. 1 of today's episode comes from this YouTube live event presented by No Kings called Eyes on ICE: Document and Record. You can watch the whole thing here.
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M. Cristina Marras is an audio producer and sound artist living in Sardinia, Italy. She authored the Incantation for Restoring Democracy.
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28 January 2026, 7:14 am - 13 minutes 29 secondsHow Much Capacity Do You Have Today? with Bridget Thoreson
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.
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21 January 2026, 8:13 am - 12 minutes 1 secondStep Into the Slipstream of History and Get Jacked with Dr. Conor Heffernan
Conor Heffernan is Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University, UK, and Chair of the British Society of Sports History. His new book is When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the 19th Century. Conor has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and runs a history of fitness website @Physical Culture Study. Find him on Bluesky @PhysCstudy
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The Quest to Pick Up the Lost Lifting Stones of Ireland in GQ
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14 January 2026, 1:35 pm - 11 minutes 22 seconds"Hey Buddy!" Let's Talk About Why You Feel Doomed with Andy J. Pizza
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 Creative Pep Talk. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and three kids. He was last on the show talking about getting high on your own supply.
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7 January 2026, 3:26 pm - 22 minutes 26 secondsResolutions Smesolutions! Ta Ta 2025.
Happiest and healthiest of New Years to you and yours! Thank you for listening. Love, z
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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
Shower Belly with Lauren Passell
Morning Joy Practice with Brandi Stanley
Don't Wish Your Life Away with Lilly Turmelle
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