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    The Best Advice Show

    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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    Episodes (586)

    The Great Myth Between Libido and Desire with Rory Uphold

    The Great Myth Between Libido and Desire with Rory Uphold

    Rory Uphold is the host of Crimes of the Heart Podcast. She's written/directed the viral web series’ “Only in HelLA” and “This Is Why We’re Single” and she’s sold shows to places like Elite Daily, Sony, Comedy Central, Endemol Shine, Crackle, and FX. Rory was one of the inaugural fellows in the Sundance Institutes “New Voices Lab” and voted top five in Funny or Die’s “Make Em LAFF” competition with the Los Angeles Film Festival. She’s the host and creator of the popular love and dating podcast CRIMES OF THE HEART where she normalizes the everyday struggles and taboos of modern love. When Rory isn’t thriving through awkward social situations she’s making Tiktoks and trying to find her future ex-husband.

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    How To Reconnect To Your Partner with Sex and Intimacy Coach Leah Carey

    How To Reconnect To Your Partner with Sex and Intimacy Coach Leah Carey

    Leah Carey is a Sex and Intimacy Coach and the host of the podcast Good Girls Talk About Sex. She's frequently featured as a guest expert on podcasts and in print, including an appearance on the #1 rated sex and relationship advice show, The Savage Lovecast.

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    Slow Down and Look Closely with Claire Bown

    Slow Down and Look Closely with Claire Bown

    Claire Bown is a UK born museum educator, trainer, facilitator and podcast host of The Art Engager where she share a variety of easy-to-learn flexible techniques and tools to help create participant-centred, inquiry-driven experiences that bring art and objects to life.based in the Netherlands. Sh

    She is a huge fan of slow looking and have developed an approach to help both educators and their audiences engage with art and objects in museums called Visible Thinking in the Museum (VTM).

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    Rob Walker on the Art of Noticing

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    How To Take Psychedelics Safely and Profoundly with Paul F. Austin

    How To Take Psychedelics Safely and Profoundly with Paul F. Austin

    Paul F. Austin is the founder and CEO of Third Wave. He's one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics, and is the author of Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life.

    As the founder of Third Wave and Psychedelic Coaching Institute, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured in Forbes, Rolling Stone, and the BBC’s Worklife.

    Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration.

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    The Fireside Project's Psychedelic Support Line is staffed by rigorously trained, compassionate, supportive volunteers from diverse backgrounds who listen deeply and from a place of non-judgment.

     

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    When You Have Everything, There's No Way To Make Interesting Decisions with Tamar Adler

    When You Have Everything, There's No Way To Make Interesting Decisions with Tamar Adler

    Tamar Adler is the Kitchen Shrink. Sign-up for her Substack today! 

    Tamar is the author of The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, Something Old, Something New and An Everlasting Meal. She's coming to Michigan later this month. 

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    February 27 (Traverse City, MI): https://www.farmclubtc.com/events-1/tamar-alder-everlasting-meal-cookbook-talk-w-nic-thiesen

    February 28 (Grand Rapids, MI): https://www.cafemamo.com/

    February 29 (Three Oaks, MI): https://granorfarm.com/dining/book

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    Tamar was an editor at Harper’s Magazine from 2001 through 2004. After cooking at Prune restaurant one summer, she became the chef of Farm 255, in Athens, Georgia. She eventually moved to California to cook at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.

    Tamar has been writing full time since 2011. She has been a columnist for the New York Times Magazine, has reviewed various books for the New York Times and the New Yorker, and has been lucky enough to cover topics as wide-ranging as seaweedhot dogs, baby weaning, and diet culture for Vogue Magazine.

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    Floating Down the Career River with Bridget Thoreson

    Floating Down the Career River with Bridget Thoreson

    Bridget Thoreson is a journalist exploring collaboration, engagement and how to navigate a fulfilling career. Subscribe to her Substack!

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    Rejecting the career ladder for a more fulfilling journey by Bridget Thoreson

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    More on Frederick Herzberg's Two-Factor theory

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    Double-Down on Your Relationship with Jaye Johnson & Joe Richman

    Double-Down on Your Relationship with Jaye Johnson & Joe Richman

    Jaye Johnson is a Peabody award-winning journalist, filmmaker, producer, and writer exploring the ways cultural expectations shape our public and private behavior. She is the founder and editor of The Pleasure Report, an online space that explores the intersection of politics, culture, and pleasure. As a TED Resident, she has been writing and speaking about sexuality and sense education. Her TED Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex, has been viewed 3.5 million times and is translated into 27 languages.

    Joe Richman is the founder of Radio Diaries, a Peabody award-winning producer and reporter whose pioneering series Teenage Diaries brought the voices of teenagers to a national audience on NPR’s All Things Considered. Before founding Radio Diaries, he worked on the NPR programs All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday, Car Talk, and Heat. Joe also teaches radio documentary at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The LA Times called Joe “a kind of Studs Terkel of the airwaves.”

    Being Close with Michael Franti

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    The Mortal Mingle with Eef Barzelay: Did You Know These Were Roger Ebert's Dying Words?

    The Mortal Mingle with Eef Barzelay: Did You Know These Were Roger Ebert's Dying Words?

    The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to that, all these little miracles started happening.”

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    Roger Ebert's Wife, Chaz, on His Final Moments

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    The Mortal Mingle with Caveh Zahedi: Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both Die

    The Mortal Mingle with Caveh Zahedi: Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both Die

    Caveh Zahedi is a filmmaker and host of the new podcast, Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both Die. He was on this episode of TBAS talking about becoming art. 

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    The Mortal Mingle with Shira Heisler: Say What You Want To Say Before It's Too Late

    The Mortal Mingle with Shira Heisler: Say What You Want To Say Before It's Too Late

    Shira Heisler is a physician, Zak's wife and the most frequent contributor to TBAS.

    SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA HEISLER

    SPLITTING WITH SHIRA

    SALTING WITH SHIRA

    CRITIQUING WITH SHIRA

    SHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRA

    PRACTICING RESTRAINT WITH SHIRA

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    ***Remembering Sam Woll

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    The Mortal Mingle with Resham Mantri: The Art of Endings

    The Mortal Mingle with Resham Mantri: The Art of Endings

    Resham Mantri is a death doula, divorced single co-parent and grieving/loving writer and artist who believes in the fertile soil of the in-between spaces for great dreaming and imagination.  She is the creator of The In-Between, an online publication of her heart and mind and the co-creator of The Community DeathCare Digest, a biweekly newsletter that explores how we die in community alongside mutual aid requests. She creates installation and performance art that has been shown in Brooklyn where she lives with her two children, her mother and their dog Freddie.  In relationship grief work, Resham brings all of the tools she has been trained in and practices.  These include many years as a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn Family Court working with children and families experiencing hard transitions, her experience as a death doula, her work within restorative justice practices navigating divorce and relationship work, and her ongoing friendship with her childrens’ co-parent.  Her work as a writer and artist are her foundational dreamscapes which she will bring to this offering through essays, poems, podcasts, and literature. 

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    The Mortal Mingle with Nikki Boyer: A Date with Death

    The Mortal Mingle with Nikki Boyer: A Date with Death

    Nikki Boyer is a three time Emmy® award-winning TV host, producer, actress, and podcaster. She created, hosted, and served as an executive producer on the award-winning Wondery podcast, Dying for Sex, which won the 2021 Ambie Award for Podcast of the Year---and was named as one of Apple’s favorite podcasts of 2020. Nikki also hosts Near Death and The Daily Smile

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    The Mortal Mingle with Cyndie Spiegal: Something To Remember Them By

    The Mortal Mingle with Cyndie Spiegal: Something To Remember Them By

    Cyndie Spiegal, author of Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay, is an outspoken speaker, community builder, and business coach on a mission to empower others to refine their mindsets for good, and help them realize their wildest dreams. Her unique blend of straight talk, relatability, sass, and inspiration has made her a sought-after speaker for brands, conferences, and events. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her photographer husband and two overly particular cats. She was last on The Best Advice Show talking about how not to be creepy when talking to strangers


     

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    The Mortal Mingle with Zak Rosen: How To Say Goodbye To Your Pet

    The Mortal Mingle with Zak Rosen: How To Say Goodbye To Your Pet

    This episode was originally made in collaboration with Slate's excellent podcast, How To! 

    Like many pet parents, Zak Rosen and his wife lived for years in a state of denial about their beloved dog, Rumi. Then they learned that Rottweilers only tend to live about eight to 12 years, and there was no denying it: Rumi is already in her twilight years. In the not-so-distant future, they’ll have to make some truly tough decisions.

    On this episode of How To!, Zak seeks out advice about end-of-life pet care from Dr. Ellen LaFramboise, owner of Crossroads Veterinary Hospice, and fellow pet parent Gabby Santos, who shares how she prepared for the death of her 18-year-old miniature pinscher, Bob’i. Their conversation might change the way you think about your furry pal’s final days (and maybe even your own).

    If you liked this episode, check out “How To Get Your Dog To Stop Barking (Without Barking Back).”

    Podcast production by Zak Rosen, Rosemary Belson, Derek John, Joel Meyer, and Merritt Jacob.

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    The Mortal Mingle with Kathy Benjamin: Planning Your Funeral

    The Mortal Mingle with Kathy Benjamin: Planning Your Funeral

    Kathy Benjamin has worked as a writer and editor since 2009 for major sites including MentalFloss.com and ‪Cracked.com. She is currently a writer and editor for ‪Grunge.com. Offline, she’s contributed articles to mental_floss magazine and Reader’s Digest. Her specialties are history, royalty, Christianity, and death, but always with a dash of funny.

    In 2013, Kathy wrote Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever (Adams Media). She also contributed to Cracked.com’s publication The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Plume, 2013). Her latest book, It's Your Funeral!: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime -- Before it's Too Late (Quirk).

    Kathy has turned her hand to fiction with the recently completed Area 54, a humorous science fiction novel about disco, drugs, and aliens. She has also written four children's books, which are about absolutely none of those things.

    She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Simon, and her dog, Briscoe.

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    The Mortal Mingle with Melanie Davenport: A Place For Our Grief

    The Mortal Mingle with Melanie Davenport: A Place For Our Grief

    Melanie Davenport is the Abbot of the Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple in Detroit and a therapist with  a psychodynamic, holistic, and mindfulness-based approach to healing.

    *This series is dedicated to the memory of Sam Woll. May her memory be a revolution. 

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