701 Episodes

  1. "Hey Buddy!" Let's Talk About Why You Feel Doomed with Andy J. Pizza

    Published: 1/7/2026

  2. Resolutions Smesolutions! Ta Ta 2025.

    Published: 12/31/2025

  3. How to Take Control of your News Diet with Rekha Murthy (PLUS: How much does Zak earn from Weirdly Helpful?)

    Published: 12/24/2025

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

    Published: 12/17/2025

  5. A Fun Alternative for Surviving Our Disastrous Times with Austin Kleon

    Published: 12/10/2025

  6. Let's Meet at the Corner of Mindfulness and Playfulness

    Published: 12/3/2025

  7. The Weirdly Helpful Gratitude Hour

    Published: 11/26/2025

  8. Make a List of Your Enemies to Articulate Who You're Not! with Emma Martin

    Published: 11/19/2025

  9. What's the Deal with Handshaking in 2025?

    Published: 11/12/2025

  10. A weirdly helpful way to deal with the negative voice in your head with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen

    Published: 11/5/2025

  11. The Best Advice Show is Dead. This is Weirdly Helpful!

    Published: 10/29/2025

  12. This is WEIRDLY HELPFUL!

    Published: 10/27/2025

  13. If Ambition Is Making You Unhappy with Courtney Daniels

    Published: 10/22/2025

  14. The True Meaning of Discipline with John Cage and Mason Currey

    Published: 10/15/2025

  15. Dogs and Berries Are Miracles. Why Not Combine Them?

    Published: 10/8/2025

  16. You Don't Need To Remember Everything with Susannah Goodman

    Published: 10/1/2025

  17. Zak interviews his hero Jonathan Goldstein

    Published: 9/24/2025

  18. This Experiment Will Help You Move From Procrastinating to Creating with Malaka Gharib

    Published: 9/17/2025

  19. Don't Wish Your Life Away with Lilly Turmelle

    Published: 9/10/2025

  20. Tweenage Advice on Fear, Boredom, Crushes, Stress, Grief and Soup Dumplings

    Published: 9/3/2025

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Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) is a short, weekly infusion of delightful, unexpected and strange ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. 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!