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Wednesday, February 25, 2026 Become 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 Wis...

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 Stop 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 Am...

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 This 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 autho...

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Young 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 Unleas...

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Is 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 th...

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 How 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 fl...

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 Step 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 Wh...

Wednesday, January 7, 2026 "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 Ev...

Wednesday, December 31, 2025 Resolutions Smesolutions! Ta Ta 2025.

Happiest and healthiest of New Years to you and yours! Thank you for listening. Love, z ⁠SUPPORT WEIRDLY HELPFUL BY BECOMING A PATRON RIGHT NOW. To...

Wednesday, December 24, 2025 How to Take Control of your News Diet with Rekha Murthy (PLUS: How much does Zak earn from Weirdly Helpful?)

Rekha Murthy is a podcast strategist with more than 25 years of experience in podcasting, public radio, and other digital media. SOURCES MENTIONED: ...

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Friendship Conflict, Grief Practices, Family Cookbooks, Guilt-Free Gift Giving and more with Zak on Michigan Public!

Zak went on Michigan Public's daily show Stateside to share some weirdly helpful end of year rituals and practices. He shares that segment today. St...

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 A Fun Alternative for Surviving Our Disastrous Times with Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist and other books - Austin's essay on Meeker's work, The Comedy...

on 8/29/2025

After listening to the morning news podcast I treated myself to this show. My favorites that I use most days are the witchy water maneuvers, writing a letter instead of looking at your phone, touching grass, mind palace for your mind/ 9o’clock rule
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on 8/6/2025

Capsule wardrobe: yes. Minimizing your clothing's impact on your mental space: yes. Ordering things from Amazon: no. Throwing things in the trash as soon as they're stained or need light mending: terrible advice!! Mend before you spend, people, and don't shop on Amazon if you can avoid it at all (which can be done 99% of the time)
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on 2/4/2025

Zak manages to go deep into very helpful every day issues in very practical ways. Which is hard and rare. Thanks for making me feel inspired while giving me concrete steps to evolve.
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