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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.
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For over a year, Zak Rosen and his wife, Shira Heisler, discussed whether or not they wanted to have children. They conferred with friends, family, writers, and scientists along the way. Pregnant Pause is their intimate account of making the most important decision of their lives (so far).
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Help Me Be Me is an emotional toolkit for creating positive change in yourself. I like to think of it as self-help for people who hate self-help. I'm Sarah May, coach/author/all-around happy person, and these are the tools that work for me in my life. For all of my offerings you can check out YayWithMe.com What I share on this show is my personal opinion. It's not a diagnosis for treatment or a substitute for professional help. If you're suffering, please reach out to your local emergency se ...
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A school for sharing ideas and inspiration around good storytelling. “What makes a good story?”, “What excites us most about stories?”, “How can we be better at engaging with this fragile and robust art form?” Each week Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard speak with a well-known storyteller to receive their golden insights and advice. Like all good schools, at the end of each episode there will be homework; a unique storytelling challenge for you to join in.
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Sarah May hosts Help Me Be Me, an emotional toolkit for creating positive change in yourself. Check out Zak's appearance on HMBM, Making Positive Waves of Change In Your Life. Sarah was last on The Best Advice Show 4 years ago advising us on Expecting the Opposite. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue makin…
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On this episode: Lucy, Jamilah, and Dan Kois help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook community who’s wondering how to help her teenage son through the rite of passage that is shaving. We’ll also help out a listener whose six-year-old is an overzealous shaver, and talk through whether it’s a real problem. We also dole out a round of recommenda…
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On this episode: Lucy, Jamilah, and special guest host Dan Kois help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group who’s unable to sleep unless everyone in the household is tucked in and all the doors are locked. That’s making it challenging to live with a 16-year-old night owl… so is the answer to just suffer through the evenings where not everyo…
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DANN McDORMAN is the author of West Heart Kill and an Emmy-nominated TV news producer, who has also worked as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, and cabinet maker. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Share thi…
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The inner committee is what I am focusing on in this episode. By that I mean the cast of characters in your mind that voice fears, judgements, criticisms, rules for what you can and will do, and generally limit your beliefs about your life. I sometimes refer to our mind as a stage on which actors perform scenes. “You” – the holistic, reflective sel…
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Diana Greene is a mother and restaurant manager in Ohio. Call me with your grandma advice at 844-935-BEST Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow…
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On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Jamilah help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook Group who’s torn about her kid’s new bestie. This girl is mostly unsupervised and tends toward naughtiness — ding-dong ditching, messy play, and watching adult YouTube — and that tendency is trickling down to our group member’s son. How can this parent make sure he…
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On this episode: Lucy, Zak, and Jamilah help a listener who wrote in wondering how to soften her landing after taking a break from the kids. She’s grateful for them, and for time away… but why doesn’t she feel refreshed? We’ll also debrief with a round of parenting Triumphs & Fails, and share some of your responses to our recent episode about short…
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Jeanette Johnston (she/they) is an environmental educator and Director of the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee for NNOCCI, the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI), which trains communicators and educators to shift public discourse on climate change to be positive, community-minded, and sol…
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After 25 years in the City of Angels, Denise and James Gordon sold their house and hit the road to find a new hometown. On their podcast, The Skiptown All-Stars Travel Podcast, they break down each city and every restaurant, Air BnB and tourist trap we encounter along the way. We're not RV people, but we've got over 50 towns and 50,000 miles under …
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We’re taking it easy after the holiday last week but didn’t want to leave you empty-eared… so we’re very excited to share an extended cut of Jamila’s recent interview with Ruby Russell, author of Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood. We’ll be back with a regular episode Thursday — see you then! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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If you are feeling pissed off, having angry outbursts, trending toward negativity, and feeling a sense of doom, there’s a likelihood that you are burned out. This is an episode inviting you to step back and recalibrate when “the pot is full,” so to speak. This isn’t about dismantling what’s working if you are currently high functioning and getting …
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Hi listeners! We're off from the holiday but wanted to share an episode of another Slate show that we think you'll love: Leo is a high-achieving high school senior on the cusp of graduation. Growing up in a rigorous school environment he faced endless pressure to follow the expected track of attending an elite university and eventually securing a g…
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Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She's the author of Design for Belonging and she coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school an…
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Liz Horowitz runs Sonic Strategy Consulting where she helps audio first companies to amplify profitably. --- LISTEN TO floating down the career river with Bridget Thoreson. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Sh…
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On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Elizabeth help a listener whose daycare has requested that her toddler daughter wear shorts underneath skirts and dresses. The listener’s knee-jerk reaction is that it’s unnecessary… but we’ll offer some suggestions about what she could be missing, and why how we dress our kids is important. We also dole out a round o…
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On this episode: Lucy, Zak, and Elizabeth help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group whose daughter forgot how to ride a bike… and is now pretty insistent that she doesn’t want to re-learn. We’ll talk through how to incentivize some bravery and get siblings involved in the process. We’ll also debrief with a round of parenting Triumphs & Fa…
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Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a weekly newsletter and teaches cooking classes most Sunday afternoons. Her newest cookbook, What Goes with What, will be out in October 2024. Subscribe to Julia's newsletter, Keep Calm & Cook On HERE. Today's episode is based on this installment of the newsletter. Call Zak o…
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Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (aka Patricia Elzie) is a writer, podcaster, and librarian. She hosts the podcast Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice and a weekly newsletter of the same name which offers self-improvement and mental health advice and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. Ca…
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On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Elizabeth talk about the bold thesis statement of this piece from Romper Magazine… arguing that actually, traveling with a big group is the best way to relax on vacation. We’ll talk strategy for booking reservations, handing off kid duties, and casting the perfect vacation collective. We also dole out a round of recom…
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On this episode: Lucy, Zak, and Elizabeth help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group come up with ways to prevent a summer backslide – and keep school skills fresh over the break. We got some great tips from our audience of parents and educators, too. We’ll also debrief with a round of parenting Triumphs & Fails — including a tale of middl…
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This is a conversation with Zak Rosen of “The Best Advice Show” all about how small acts make massive waves of change outwards. This is a feel-good show all about changes that affect the arc of life: the small, conscious tweaks we make change our trajectory in terms of happiness and overall quality of life. And the advice you hear in this episode i…
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Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work! Here are Joan LeMay's Breakfast Decider Dice Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow…
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On this episode: Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth help a member of our Slate Parenting Facebook group who’s struggling to keep her head above water. There’s always another deadline, appointment, and thing to do… and when it all piles up, it’s hard to feel like you can dig yourself out. We’ll have some concrete advice for how to move in the right direction …
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On this episode: Lucy sits down with researcher and friend of the show Tova Walsh to talk about her work on dads who experience postpartum depression. Paternal mental health is a topic we don’t talk about nearly enough, so we wanted to give you some advice — and some resources to learn more and get help. Tova wants to share the following: A convers…
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Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShowBy Annie Sim
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Sara Brooke Curtis is an artist and audio producer from Western Massachusetts. She was last on the show to give advice about how to not keep checking your email. Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow --- Share this ep…
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On this episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a listener question about whether it’s really necessary to lug around strollers and car seats during an international trip. The answer is complicated, but among other tips, we do recommend the following: The City Mini stroller The gb Pockit+ stroller line The Doona car seat/stroller system The Mif…
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This is about escaping a relationship that you cannot seem to leave but you know 1000% that you are extremely unhappy staying in it. When we watch ourselves in a state of inaction, we assume it to be your truth. Ambivalence, rumination and a state of paralysis when it comes to a relationship–that you are clearly unhappy in– are very common. This is…
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On this episode: Jamilah, Zak and Elizabeth help a listener who, for a few reasons, is at the end of her rope with a friend of her daughter’s. The friend is sweet… she’s just LOUD, to the point that the listener doesn’t want to drive the girls around anymore. Where does she go from here? We’ll also debrief on our week in parenting with a round of T…
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Shira Heisler is a physician, Zak's wife and the most frequent contributor to TBAS. SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA SPLITTING WITH SHIRA SALTING WITH SHIRA CRITIQUING WITH SHIRA SHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRA PRACTICING RESTRAINT WITH SHIRA Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST --- Wanna help Zak continue making this show? Become a …
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