The Best Advice Show
By Zak Rosen
The Best Advice Show is your reminder that there are weird, delightful and effective ways to survive and thrive in this world. In every (very short) episode of the show, a different contributor offers their own personal take on what they do to make their life better, healthier, saner and more livable and it's likely gonna be something you can try today, if you want!
The Best Advice ShowSep 13, 2021
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04:02
Wearing the Same Thing Everyday with Anne Kadet
Anne Kadet is the creator of the can't miss newsletter, CAFÉ ANNE.
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The Naked Cowboy’s Wonderful Morning Routine
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Nov 08, 202106:49
Standing Still with Alex Guarnaschelli
Alex Guarnaschelli is a chef, TV star and mom living in NYC.
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Nov 05, 202104:09
Throwing Your Own Party with Kate Toussaint
Kate Toussaint is a teacher, mom, reader and moderator of the Anti-Racist Coalition.
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Nov 03, 202103:31
Rewiring Your Brain with Michaela Ayers
Nourish was founded by Michaela Ayers in reaction to the 2016 presidential election. Realizing that we live in a polarized society where it’s increasingly difficult to engage in conversation across our differences, especially conversations about race and racism, Michaela set out to create a middle ground. “I am of the opinion that even though a conversation may be uncomfortable, it doesn’t mean the experience can’t be beautiful,” says Michaela.
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
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The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
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Nov 01, 202103:47
Trick-or-Treating with Jen Rusciano
Jen Rusciano is the Executive Director of the Detroit Food Academy. You can support that amazing organization by following this link.
Jen was last on the show giving meditation advice.
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Oct 29, 202103:57
Finding Structure with Zeke Nicholson
Zeke Nicholson is an actor writer living in Los Angeles.
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Oct 27, 202104:39
Facing Your Fears with Michael Porter Jr.
Michael Porter Jr. is an NBA player for the Denver Nuggets. He hosts the Curious Mike podcast.
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MORNING ZESTING WITH DREW PHILP
TAPPING INTO CHILDHOOD WITH LAUREN PASSELL
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MORNING ZESTING WITH DREW PHILP
TAPPING INTO CHILDHOOD WITH LAUREN PASSELL
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Oct 25, 202105:14
Prepping Fruit with Shira Heisler
Shira Heisler is a doctor, wife, friend and advice-guru living with Zak in Detroit.
SHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRA HEISLER
SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA HEISLER AND EVANGELINE GARREAU
SPLITTING WITH SHIRA
SALTING WITH SHIRACRITIQUING WITH SHIRA
EDITING YOUR FRIDGE WITH ZOË KOMARIN
REPURPOSING FOOD WITH ZOË KOMARIN
SPOON FEEDING WITH ZOË KOMARIN
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SHOWING UP COMPLETELY WITH SHIRA HEISLER
SAYING THE NICE THING WITH SHIRA HEISLER AND EVANGELINE GARREAU
SPLITTING WITH SHIRA
SALTING WITH SHIRACRITIQUING WITH SHIRA
EDITING YOUR FRIDGE WITH ZOË KOMARIN
REPURPOSING FOOD WITH ZOË KOMARIN
SPOON FEEDING WITH ZOË KOMARIN
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Oct 22, 202102:60
Picking People's Brains with Dr. Taharee Jackson
Dr. Taharee Jackson is the founder and Tone-Setter-in-Chief of Dr. Taharee Consulting, where she works with various sectors on diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion issues.
Here's a link to her writing on Medium.
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Here's a link to her writing on Medium.
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Oct 20, 202106:22
Aiming at Meh with Brian Selfon
Brian Selfon has worked in criminal justice for nearly twenty years. The Nightworkers is his debut novel.
How to hide Self View on Zoom
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How to hide Self View on Zoom
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Oct 18, 202104:43
Adding Complexity with Ji Hye Kim
Ji Hye Kim is the chef and owner of MISS KIM in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Food & Wine just named her one of The Best New Chefs in the U.S.
GENTLE SALTING WITH JI HYE KIM
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Oct 15, 202106:06
Facing the Truth with Tamara Lindeman (from The Weather Station)
Tamara Lindeman is a musician from the band, The Weather Station. Their latest album is Ignorance.
INVESTIGATING YOUR SHAME WITH HEATHER RADKE
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INVESTIGATING YOUR SHAME WITH HEATHER RADKE
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Oct 13, 202109:43
Expressing Your Idea with Shirley Woodson
Shirley Woodson is an artist and educator. She's the 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist. Her solo show, Why Do I Delight is up at the Detroit Artists Market through 10/23. You can download or purchase the new Shirley Woodson monograph, here.
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ZAK: Shirley Woodson shares an art studio with her son. It's right off the highway on the west side of Detroit. But once you step inside, it's peaceful and warm. Her work cover the walls and they're stacked in piles on the floor.
MS. WOODSON: That's a collage. A recent one I did about my family.
ZAK: Ms. Woodson has been in Detroit since 1938 when her parents moved the family from Tennessee. She was just a baby. Today, she's one of Detroit's most celebrated and beloved artists. She makes big, colorful figurative paintings. And she's kind of obsessed with horses.
MS. WOODSON : I do a lot of horses with women riders which I've been doing for a long time. But each one is a challenge.
ZAK: Today she's gonna work on the front right leg of a burnt orange horse galloping alongside a short haired woman in white. Her work is part of permanent collections at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Kresge Arts recently named her their eminent artist of 2021. They wrote...quote "decades of success as an artist, paired with her exceptional and tireless commitment to ensure educational and career opportunities for all artists, have ensured the story of art in Detroit is far more inclusive and honest than it would have been without her efforts. It has also ensured her place as a revered and renowned pillar of Detroit’s creative community." Ms. Woodson's has offered creative advice to students for decades. And perhaps the most foundational art lesson she teaches is this.
MS. WOODSON : Well there are no wrong answers in your seeking to express an idea. And there's more than one way to get your idea across. 3 + 3 is 6. 4 + 2 is 6. And 12-6 is 6.
ZAK: And since there are no wrong answers. When we're starting out as kids or adult beginners, Ms. Woodson teaches we don't need erasers on our pencils. And we don't throw our work away!
MS. WOODSON : Occasionally I would hear a crumple, crumple, crumple of paper. 'Can I have another sheet of paper? I said, 'We're gonna use all of that and remember. We have to keep all your drawing because we want to see the improvement. We can't see the improvement if it's in the waste basket.
ZAK: Before we go. I'm gonna leave you with a lesson you can try at home today.
MS. WOODSON : You need 5 sheets of...I was gonna say typing. But nobody types anymore. 5 sheets of paper. And draw a circle, free hand. Hold your pencil so that your hand is not touching the paper. And then place the pencil point on the paper and using your shoulder and the whole motion draw the circle and it can be big to take up the whole paper and go arond as many times as it takes you to see the circle come out. Remember it's your hand that's making the motion. And then you do 4 more. Then you can put something inside of those circles. Do not erase. Sign it and date it and put it in a folder. This may be your beginning.
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ZAK: Shirley Woodson shares an art studio with her son. It's right off the highway on the west side of Detroit. But once you step inside, it's peaceful and warm. Her work cover the walls and they're stacked in piles on the floor.
MS. WOODSON: That's a collage. A recent one I did about my family.
ZAK: Ms. Woodson has been in Detroit since 1938 when her parents moved the family from Tennessee. She was just a baby. Today, she's one of Detroit's most celebrated and beloved artists. She makes big, colorful figurative paintings. And she's kind of obsessed with horses.
MS. WOODSON : I do a lot of horses with women riders which I've been doing for a long time. But each one is a challenge.
ZAK: Today she's gonna work on the front right leg of a burnt orange horse galloping alongside a short haired woman in white. Her work is part of permanent collections at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Kresge Arts recently named her their eminent artist of 2021. They wrote...quote "decades of success as an artist, paired with her exceptional and tireless commitment to ensure educational and career opportunities for all artists, have ensured the story of art in Detroit is far more inclusive and honest than it would have been without her efforts. It has also ensured her place as a revered and renowned pillar of Detroit’s creative community." Ms. Woodson's has offered creative advice to students for decades. And perhaps the most foundational art lesson she teaches is this.
MS. WOODSON : Well there are no wrong answers in your seeking to express an idea. And there's more than one way to get your idea across. 3 + 3 is 6. 4 + 2 is 6. And 12-6 is 6.
ZAK: And since there are no wrong answers. When we're starting out as kids or adult beginners, Ms. Woodson teaches we don't need erasers on our pencils. And we don't throw our work away!
MS. WOODSON : Occasionally I would hear a crumple, crumple, crumple of paper. 'Can I have another sheet of paper? I said, 'We're gonna use all of that and remember. We have to keep all your drawing because we want to see the improvement. We can't see the improvement if it's in the waste basket.
ZAK: Before we go. I'm gonna leave you with a lesson you can try at home today.
MS. WOODSON : You need 5 sheets of...I was gonna say typing. But nobody types anymore. 5 sheets of paper. And draw a circle, free hand. Hold your pencil so that your hand is not touching the paper. And then place the pencil point on the paper and using your shoulder and the whole motion draw the circle and it can be big to take up the whole paper and go arond as many times as it takes you to see the circle come out. Remember it's your hand that's making the motion. And then you do 4 more. Then you can put something inside of those circles. Do not erase. Sign it and date it and put it in a folder. This may be your beginning.
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Oct 11, 202106:46
Pancaking with Ronia Cabansag
Ronia Cabansag is a podcast producer, student and Best Advice Show intern extraordinaire.
Ronia's favorite pancake recipe!
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Oct 08, 202103:39
Journaling with Ronia Cabansag
Ronia Cabansag is a podcast producer, student and Best Advice Show intern extraordinaire.
#143 : REFRESHING YOURSELF WITH SARA BROOKE CURTIS
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#143 : REFRESHING YOURSELF WITH SARA BROOKE CURTIS
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Oct 06, 202104:35
Skipping Disdain with Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He was just awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
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Oct 04, 202103:40
Embracing Dishwashing with Sho Spaeth
Sho Spaeth is an editor and writer at Serious Eats.
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Pan scrapers for sale
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Pan scrapers for sale
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Oct 01, 202105:57
Going Without with Jacqueline Raposo
Jacqueline Raposo is an interviewer, podcast producer, food writer and the author of The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness.
If you're gonna try going without, feel free to share your journey with Jacqueline and I at @wordsfoodart and @bestadviceshow!
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Sep 29, 202110:51
Night Prepping with Teaka
Teaka called me on the advice hotline at 844-934-BEST and so should you!!!!!!!!
DOING THE HARD THING FIRST WITH TIFFANY PAULSEN
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DOING THE HARD THING FIRST WITH TIFFANY PAULSEN
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Sep 27, 202102:35
Using Less with Anne-Marie Bonneau
Anne-Marie Bonneau writes the blog, The Zero-Waste Chef, and has a cookbook out also called The Zero-Waste Chef
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Sep 24, 202104:11
Slowing Down with Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee
Katie Crutchfield is one of the great singer-songwriters of our time. Her most recent album as Waxahatchee is Saint Cloud.
Putting Down the Think with Marlee Grace
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Putting Down the Think with Marlee Grace
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Sep 22, 202108:52
Saying it Out Loud with Bethel Habte
Bethel Habte is a producer and reporter @Resistance.
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TBAS # 66: Expecting the Opposite with Sarah May B.
TBAS # 88: Talking to Your Best Friend with Lauren
TBAS # 285: Evolving Self-Talk with Kelly Travis
TBAS #303: Talking to my Younger Self with Chelsea Ursin
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TBAS # 38: Self-Talking with Steven Handel
TBAS # 66: Expecting the Opposite with Sarah May B.
TBAS # 88: Talking to Your Best Friend with Lauren
TBAS # 285: Evolving Self-Talk with Kelly Travis
TBAS #303: Talking to my Younger Self with Chelsea Ursin
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Sep 20, 202103:46
Shaking or Stirring with Tammy Coxen
As the founder and Chief Tasting Officer of Tammy’s Tastings, Tammy Coxen has been sharing her enthusiasm for food and drink for over 15 years. She is the co-author of the cocktail book Cheers to Michigan, co-host of a regular cocktail segment on Michigan Radio (her local NPR affiliate), and writes a monthly column for Hour Detroit magazine.
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Sep 17, 202103:42
Climbing Out of the Rabbit Hole with Liana Pavane
LIANA PAVANE IS A DIGITAL WELLNESS COACH AND FOUNDER OF TTYL—A TECH-FREE COMMUNITY DEDICATED TO HUMAN CONNECTION.
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Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.
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So much of this show originates with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.
Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.
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Sep 15, 202104:35
Tooting Your Own Horn with Erin Bevel
Erin Bevel is a Co-Founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund and Board Member at Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
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So much of this show originates with your hard-earned advice. To contribute please call me (Zak) at 844-935-BEST. Leave your name and your advice, followed by your email address in case I have any follow-up questions.
Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.
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Sep 13, 202104:02
Adapative Quickling with Alison Heeres
Alison Heeres is the chef and co-owner of Coriander Kitchen & Farm in Detroit.
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Repurposing Food w/Zoe
Spoon Feeding w/Zoe
Editing Your Fridge w/Zoe
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Sep 10, 202104:41
Giving Advice Well with Lynn Harris
Lynn Harris is co-host of the Forward’s “A Bintel Brief” podcast. A writer, activist and teacher, she founded GOLD Comedy , a school and community for girls and non-binary folks, and previously wrote advice columns for Breakup Girl, Glamour and several other print magazines of blessed memory.
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Sep 08, 202103:54
Re-imagining Labor Day with Rich Feldman
Rich Feldman is a former auto worker and union official. He's a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership.
End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream
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TRANSCRIPT:
RICH: This is Rich Feldman. I spent 20 years on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company out in Wayne. About 10 years as an elected, local official and about ten years with the international staff of the United Auto Workers.
ZAK: Especially on the Labor Day, Rich says it's very easy to be nostalgic about the past. But this year is not like every other year.
RICH: Well this Labor Day, which is taking place with almost 200-thousand people killed by COVID and the Movement For Black Lives since George Floyd was killed...it's critical that we not think of just going through the motions or just cheering on unions. So while I always say that without a union, you have nothing. With the union I believe you have a chance to have some security and have your voice heard and be responsible for what your work place should be.
So my advice is, ask yourself what is the purpose of work and how do we become responsible workers and human beings? And returning to normal is not the way to do it...it's to create a new vision and a new purpose which is gonna take a lot, a lot of work and a lot of reflection.
ZAK: Well, how do you answer that question? What is the purpose of work?
RICH: So to me the purpose of work is for individuals to do what allows each of us to express our passions, to be responsible to our neighbors, to be responsible to our community and the planet. It's time for us to say, what are we producing as well as our rights and our contractual rights.
ZAK: Rich edited an oral history called End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream. I put a link to it in our show notes. Thank you for listening to a special Labor Day episode of the Best Advice Show. I hope today is full or joy and fun and rest and contemplation.
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End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream
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TRANSCRIPT:
RICH: This is Rich Feldman. I spent 20 years on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company out in Wayne. About 10 years as an elected, local official and about ten years with the international staff of the United Auto Workers.
ZAK: Especially on the Labor Day, Rich says it's very easy to be nostalgic about the past. But this year is not like every other year.
RICH: Well this Labor Day, which is taking place with almost 200-thousand people killed by COVID and the Movement For Black Lives since George Floyd was killed...it's critical that we not think of just going through the motions or just cheering on unions. So while I always say that without a union, you have nothing. With the union I believe you have a chance to have some security and have your voice heard and be responsible for what your work place should be.
So my advice is, ask yourself what is the purpose of work and how do we become responsible workers and human beings? And returning to normal is not the way to do it...it's to create a new vision and a new purpose which is gonna take a lot, a lot of work and a lot of reflection.
ZAK: Well, how do you answer that question? What is the purpose of work?
RICH: So to me the purpose of work is for individuals to do what allows each of us to express our passions, to be responsible to our neighbors, to be responsible to our community and the planet. It's time for us to say, what are we producing as well as our rights and our contractual rights.
ZAK: Rich edited an oral history called End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream. I put a link to it in our show notes. Thank you for listening to a special Labor Day episode of the Best Advice Show. I hope today is full or joy and fun and rest and contemplation.
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Sep 06, 202103:05
Quarter Cake Clubbing with Savitha Viswanathan
Savitha Viswanathan is a designer, illustrator and founder of Mothertongue Foods.
Flavor-basing with Savitha Viswanathan
Gifting Meaningfully with Beth Nichols
Spontaneously Gifting with Valeriya
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Flavor-basing with Savitha Viswanathan
Gifting Meaningfully with Beth Nichols
Spontaneously Gifting with Valeriya
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Sep 03, 202103:53
Choosing Your Doctor with Dr. Jerrold Weinberg
Dr. Jerrold Weinberg is an OB/GYN from Metro-Detroit.
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Sep 01, 202103:14
Forgetting Your Purpose with Megan Hellerer
Megan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers.
Inside the career coaching program AOC used to help her go from bartender to Congress
DIRECTIONAL THINKING WITH MEGAN HELLERER
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Inside the career coaching program AOC used to help her go from bartender to Congress
DIRECTIONAL THINKING WITH MEGAN HELLERER
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Aug 30, 202104:52
Gentle Salting with Ji Hye Kim
Ji Hye Kim is the chef and owner of MISS KIM in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Salting with Shira
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Salting with Shira
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Aug 27, 202107:12
Directional Thinking with Megan Hellerer
Megan Hellerer is the founder of Coaching for Underfulfilled Overachievers.
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Today's episode was edited by Ronia Cabansag
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Aug 25, 202107:07
Looking Backwards with Josh Gwynn
Josh Gwynn is the producer and co-host of Back Issue
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Aug 23, 202107:09
Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez): Part 3
Diego Perez is the writer behind the pen name Yung Pueblo. His new book is Clarity and Connection.
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Aug 20, 202104:07
Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez): Part 2
Diego Perez is the writer behind the pen name Yung Pueblo. His new book is Clarity and Connection.
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Aug 18, 202105:15
Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez): Part 1
Diego Perez is the writer behind the pen name Yung Pueblo. His new book is Clarity and Connection.
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Aug 16, 202108:00
Frying Rice with Hugh Amano
Hugh Amano is a chef and co-author of, most recently, Let's Make Dumplings.
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Aug 13, 202104:04
Focusing on the Gifts with Ian Coss
Ian Coss is the creator and host of the new podcast, Forever is a Long Time.
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Aug 11, 202104:03
Counter-Offering with Brenden Murphy
Brenden Murphy is an engineer living in Michigan. He gave invaluable plumbing advice last time he was on the show.
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Understanding Time Horizons with Justin Waring.
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Understanding Time Horizons with Justin Waring.
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Aug 09, 202103:41
Avoiding Unwanted Surprises with Jamie Feldmar
Jamie Feldmar is a food writer, editor, and cookbook author, mostly working on things related to food.
Stupid Taxing with Jordan
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Stupid Taxing with Jordan
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Aug 06, 202104:31
Taking it Down a Notch with April Baer
April Baer is the host of Stateside on Michigan Radio
The Fog of War
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The Fog of War
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Aug 04, 202106:04
Checking in with Janine Rubenstein
Janine Rubenstein is Editor-at-Large of People Magazine and host of the People Every Day podcast
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Aug 02, 202106:18
Gifting Meaningfully with Beth Nichols
Beth Nichols is an amateur baker, professional editor and excellent gift giver.
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Paul Hollywood's Fortune Cookies
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Paul Hollywood's Fortune Cookies
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Jul 30, 202103:50
Following the Follower with Andy Eninger
Andy Eninger is an improviser, writer, facilitator and dog dad.
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TRANSCRIPT:
ZAK: Is there a principal that you could share? Something for those of us who haven't taken an improv class but something we might try in our everyday life, taken from improv?
ANDY: The improv philosophy that is serving me the most right now is this sense of following the follower. This sense of looking up and looking out and seeing what somebody else is doing whether that's the audience. Whether that's the person that you're performing with or the musician that you're improvising with and following where they're going and the magic of then they start to follow you and you follow them and they're following you and who's actually leading? It's almost like, have you ever seen a murmuration of birds when they're flying around. You're like which one's leading? They're all leading. They're all following each other. There's this magical sense when everyone's attuned to other people, you can go in this direction together. Even if that direction changes and changes again.
ZAK: I'm thinking about concretizing this. I'm in a Zoom now, right, with a dozen of my colleagues. How do I look to follow the follower in a context like that?
ANDY: I think it's really powerful for the person that might be leading the meeting to notice, 'Oh, I think people are shutting down. Lemme follow what's going on there by maybe asking or maybe it's time for me to be quiet and see if someone steps up.' I think that's one of the hardest things for someone who's a real driving personality who's leading a meeting is to shut up and leave a space and let someone step in and speak and I think it's not intuitive for leaders to surrender.
ZAK: Is there a check-in that people who are natural leaders, like something that they can do just to catch themselves leading and not following the follower?
ANDY: I think for a leader to take on this sense of following the follower, probably the best thing that they can do is ask themself, 'what does this person need?' Often, we're trying to apply our perspective and view of the world to everyone else. It's like, 'here's what you need to do' rather than finding out and listening to understand what another person actually needs. Asking those open-ended questions and I think that it goes counter to how many leaders think about themselves. 'Oh, I have to be smart. I need to have the right advice. I have to know what to do.' And there's so many situations where we simply can't know what's right for this person to do in the moment. We may have the vision in mind where we want the scene or the job, the project to head. But what this person needs in the moment can probably only come from that person. It's not going to come from us. I think that's what a leader is surrendering
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TRANSCRIPT:
ZAK: Is there a principal that you could share? Something for those of us who haven't taken an improv class but something we might try in our everyday life, taken from improv?
ANDY: The improv philosophy that is serving me the most right now is this sense of following the follower. This sense of looking up and looking out and seeing what somebody else is doing whether that's the audience. Whether that's the person that you're performing with or the musician that you're improvising with and following where they're going and the magic of then they start to follow you and you follow them and they're following you and who's actually leading? It's almost like, have you ever seen a murmuration of birds when they're flying around. You're like which one's leading? They're all leading. They're all following each other. There's this magical sense when everyone's attuned to other people, you can go in this direction together. Even if that direction changes and changes again.
ZAK: I'm thinking about concretizing this. I'm in a Zoom now, right, with a dozen of my colleagues. How do I look to follow the follower in a context like that?
ANDY: I think it's really powerful for the person that might be leading the meeting to notice, 'Oh, I think people are shutting down. Lemme follow what's going on there by maybe asking or maybe it's time for me to be quiet and see if someone steps up.' I think that's one of the hardest things for someone who's a real driving personality who's leading a meeting is to shut up and leave a space and let someone step in and speak and I think it's not intuitive for leaders to surrender.
ZAK: Is there a check-in that people who are natural leaders, like something that they can do just to catch themselves leading and not following the follower?
ANDY: I think for a leader to take on this sense of following the follower, probably the best thing that they can do is ask themself, 'what does this person need?' Often, we're trying to apply our perspective and view of the world to everyone else. It's like, 'here's what you need to do' rather than finding out and listening to understand what another person actually needs. Asking those open-ended questions and I think that it goes counter to how many leaders think about themselves. 'Oh, I have to be smart. I need to have the right advice. I have to know what to do.' And there's so many situations where we simply can't know what's right for this person to do in the moment. We may have the vision in mind where we want the scene or the job, the project to head. But what this person needs in the moment can probably only come from that person. It's not going to come from us. I think that's what a leader is surrendering
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Jul 28, 202104:02
Becoming Art with Caveh Zahedi
Caveh Zahedi is a filmmaker and creator of The Show About the Show and 365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die
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Jul 26, 202109:14
Changing Slowly with Andrew Zerbo
Andrew Zerbo is the chef and creator behind Fermental State
More fermenting advice from the archives!
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Jul 23, 202105:40
Weekly Dating with Kat Harris
Kat Harris (@therefinedwoman) is an author, coach and host of The Refined Collective Podcast.
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Kat's last episode from the show is ESSENTIAL! - listen.
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Jul 21, 202102:23
Talking to My Younger Self with Chelsea Ursin
Chelsea Ursin is the creator and host of the podcast, Dear Young Rocker
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SELF-TALK ADVICE FROM THE ARCHIVES
Self-Talking with Steven Handel
Expecting the Opposite with Sarah May B.
Talking To Your Best Friend with Lauren
Evolving Self-Talk with Kelly Travis
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SELF-TALK ADVICE FROM THE ARCHIVES
Self-Talking with Steven Handel
Expecting the Opposite with Sarah May B.
Talking To Your Best Friend with Lauren
Evolving Self-Talk with Kelly Travis
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Jul 19, 202107:20
Adding One Thing with Maddie Pasquariello
Maddie Pasquariello is a nutritionist. She runs @eastcoasthealth
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Jul 16, 202104:26