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Friday, January 26, 2024 LET'S GO LIONS! & The Devotional Pride of John Aslanian

John Aslanian is a professor, a Sloan Head and a Detroit Lions fan from Metro Detroit. Learn more about the Sloan Heads here.    --- Help Zak contin...

Thursday, January 25, 2024 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 spa...

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 The Mortal Mingle with Nikki Boyer: A Date with Death

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Thursday, January 18, 2024 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 o...

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 The Mortal Mingle with Zak Rosen: How To Say Goodbye To Your Pet

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023 Where We've Been and Where We're Going

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Thursday, December 21, 2023 This Advice from an 8th Grader is LITTY

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Thursday, December 14, 2023 You Are Powerless with Natalie Ruskin

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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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