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Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) episodes

October 21 Wedlocked with Hillary Frank
Weirdly Helpful is so excited to share an excerpt of Hillary Frank's suspenseful and bingeable new original audiobook, Wedlocked.
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Hillary Frank is the creator of The Longest Shortest Time, a popular parenting and reproductive health podcast, where she has covered topics ranging from birth injuries to transgender pregnancy to the sex lives of parents. The show has been named a Top 50 Podcast by The Atlantic and TIME and has won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, The Webby Awards, The Academy of Podcasters, and New York Festival’s World’s Best Radio. Hillary's work has aired on a variety of acclaimed radio shows and podcasts, including This American Life, Marketplace, Studio 360, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition. She is also the author of Weird Parenting Wins, an NPR Best Book of 2019, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and CNN.com.

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23 min
October 14 The Power of No with Anna Holmes
Anna Holmes is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared numerous publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Her new book is The Power of No.
Check out this episode from the WH archives, Saying No with Aaron Handelsman
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15 min
October 07 Pink Monkey at the Honky-Tonk with Laura Hawley
Laura Hawley is a Weirdly Helpful correspondent, artist and therapist, living and giving balls away in Philadelphia.
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17 min
September 30 Try It 10 Times: A Playful Way to Unburden Yourself with Whitney Henry-Lester
In this episode, Whitney Henry-Lester shares weirdly helpful approaches to overcoming personal baggage through playful experiments like Tensies which you should follow here.
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12 min
September 23 The Ground Space is Part of Your World Space with Katie Stone
Katie Stone is the host and producer of The Children's Hour radio show and podcast. They launched a new series of “Shorts”, featuring teensy engaging episode highlights from their award-winning programs paired with ready-to-use learning guides to make teaching easy and fun. There are 2-minute episodes about stuff like balloons, being yourself, refugees…all the topics are picked by the kids. Check 'em out!!!!
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16 min
September 16 When You Know You're Alone You Make Different Decisions with Margret Glaspy
Margaret Glaspy is a New York-based singer/songwriter. Her newest album, I Am Both, is essential. She might be coming to a town near you.
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14 min
September 09 I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. A feed drop with That Aged Well!
I love Zoolander so much. If you do too, you're gonna love today's episode which comes from the podcast That Aged Well. Come join hosts Erika and Paul as they re-experience this wild ride of a movie, filled with male models, assassins, and, of course, orange mocha frappuccinos!
More about the show: Feel conflicted about the movies you loved as a kid? Paul and Erika guide you through all that beloved garbage we watched...after all, nostalgia is more fun when you aren't the only one embarrassed by it. Come dive into yesterday's pop culture today. An 80s kid? A 90s kid? A horror aficionado? A musical singalonger? That Aged Well has got a little something for all on their website.

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2 hr 10 min
September 02 We Should Strategically Half-Ass Way More Things (or May The Bogan Be With You) with Steve Kamb
Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness and the author of HOW TO TRY AGAIN. The book he referances is... Start Ugly: The Unexpected Path to Everyday Creativity by David duChemin
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This episode's archival cousin: Aiming at Meh with Brian Selfon
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14 min
August 26 You Can't Make Anyone Love You + Yet Another Shenanigan!
Listener Clio called the Weirdly Helpline with her shenanigan and you should too @ 844-935-2378.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn! | The Wind in the Willows | Full Episode
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Jan Worth-Nelson and Ted Nelson are writers and editors from Flint, MI. More about Sheldon Kopp's, An Eschatological Laundry List.
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11 min
August 20 The Art of Shenanigans with Rebecca Garza-Bortman and a Legion of Weird Helpers
Rebecca Garza-Bortman is a designer, musician, writer, & mother living in Berkeley. This episode features WH listeners Julia, Lauren, Erica, Meredith, another Lauren, Katie and Mike.
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26 min

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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…