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Visionary or Delusional? What Submersibles, Fake Blood Tests, and Self-help Share
May 26, 2026
56m 52s
Tony Robbins on a Federal Healthcare Advisory Board? Hmmm....
May 11, 2026
55m 20s
What does "Good Self-help" Look Like with Anne Peterson
May 1, 2026
1h 10m 42s
Interview with Chris Shelton (Part 2)
Apr 13, 2026
1h 02m 04s
Interview with Chris Shelton Part 1
Mar 31, 2026
58m 16s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/26/26 | Visionary or Delusional? What Submersibles, Fake Blood Tests, and Self-help Share✨ | visionary thinkingself-help culture+3 | — | — | — | visionaryself-help+5 | — | 56m 52s | |
| 5/11/26 | Tony Robbins on a Federal Healthcare Advisory Board? Hmmm....✨ | mental healthself-help+3 | — | HHSCMS | — | Tony Robbinsmental healthcare+4 | — | 55m 20s | |
| 5/1/26 | What does "Good Self-help" Look Like with Anne Peterson✨ | self-helpethical practices+3 | Anne Peterson | — | — | self-helpethical self-help+3 | — | 1h 10m 42s | |
| 4/13/26 | Interview with Chris Shelton (Part 2)✨ | coercive controlpsychology+3 | Chris Shelton | Speaking of CultsScientology+1 | — | coercive controlScientology+5 | — | 1h 02m 04s | |
| 3/31/26 | Interview with Chris Shelton Part 1✨ | coercive controlpsychology+3 | Chris Shelton | Speaking of CultsScientology+1 | — | coercive controlcult+5 | — | 58m 16s | |
| 3/16/26 | Be Your Own Guru (bc your other guru might be in the Epstein Files)✨ | self-helpcelebrity culture+4 | — | Old Guard | — | self-helpcelebrity+4 | — | 58m 25s | |
| 11/3/25 | Climate Change and Self-help? Yep!✨ | climate changeself-help+3 | — | — | — | climate changeself-help+3 | — | 53m 35s | |
| 10/14/25 | Chatting about SEEK Week and the Upcoming SEEK Safely Summit with Anne Peterson✨ | fundraisingSEEK Week+3 | Anne Peterson | SEEKYouTube+1 | — | SEEK Weekfundraising+3 | — | 1h 01m 01s | |
| 10/6/25 | The Celebrity Guru✨ | celebrity cultureself-help+3 | — | GoopThe Biggest Loser | — | celebrityself-help guru+4 | — | 53m 35s | |
| 9/1/25 | Guru Origin Stories✨ | guru origin storiescultural analysis+3 | — | — | — | guruorigin stories+4 | — | 52m 35s | |
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| 6/23/25 | AI: The Shiny, Environmentally Destructive Magic 8 Ball | AI is suddenly everywhere it seems, and the self-help world is no different. A low-cost machine that can pump out a nearly endless string of word salad "content" to push on a willing audience? Perfect! Jean and Glenn chat about the implications of AI for self-help and how we are already seeing it wend its way into the industry and the wider mental health industry. Tony Robbins has created an AI Tony app! As a fun little experiment, Jean asks ChatGPT how it would go about creating an AI guru. ... | 50m 27s | ||||||
| 4/21/25 | Talking ICSA 2025: the International Cultic Studies Association's Annual Conference | Glenn and Jean talk about the upcoming International Cultic Studies Association's annual conference in July, where Jean is presenting on behalf of SEEK for the third year in a row. Since 1979, ICSA has been building an international network of resources for cult survivors, educators, and researchers. SEEK's presence at the conference since 2023 has been about drawing a link between the self-help industry and cults. This year's conference focusses on the role of the media in the cult conversat... | 52m 21s | ||||||
| 3/31/25 | Mid-season Check-in (aka SEEK Safely Podcast Pajama Party) | Jean’s in her PJs. Glenn is wearing sweats. Because we’re all tired… In this episode, the podcast is checking in on how we’re all coping (or not) in this very busy, constantly “breaking news” era. It is precisely in these moments of uncertainty that the self-help world typically kicks it into overdrive. So beware! We also talk about this interesting development we’re seeing–the self-helpification of US government. And finally, we offer a few thoughts on how to manage in overwhelmi... | 51m 50s | ||||||
| 3/10/25 | Dr. John Hunter Explains how Self-help Events are “Manufacturing Mania” | How do smart, motivated, successful people get pulled into spending thousands of dollars, many years, and lots of trust on a self-help program or teacher? Psychologist Dr. John Hunter applies the dopamine hypothesis to explain how these events may be messing with our brain chemistry in a way that puts us into a manic or hypomanic state. If you are curious about cults or if you’re a self-help person, this is a must-listen! Finally, we have a psychological explanation for what is actually going... | 1h 10m 43s | ||||||
| 2/24/25 | Entering the Post-guru Phase of Self-help: Reflecting on James Ray’s Death with Dr. Christine Whelan | SEEK was surprised to learn of the death of James Arthur Ray on January 3rd, 2025, at the age of 67. Ray was responsible for the deaths of 3 people at his 2009 “Spiritual Warrior” Retreat in Sedona, Arizona, a crime for which he spent 20 months in prison. As this event was the genesis of SEEK Safely, Jean, Glenn, and SEEK Board Member and self-help industry expert Dr. Christine Whelan reflect on how his death fits into the arc of the self-help industry itself. As the Brown family said in it... | 51m 55s | ||||||
| 2/10/25 | SEEK Safely Summit Recap with Anne Peterson | In November 2024, SEEK was proud to present the SEEK Safely summit, a day of reflecting, brainstorming, and imagining what a better, safer self-help world looks like. We gathered together self-help industry professionals to discuss tools for seekers and self-help practitioners, to find and facilitate more ethical self-help. In this episode of the podcast, Glenn and Jean chat with Anne Peterson, SEEK friend and author of “Is this a Cult” about her experience in Landmark, who facilitated the Su... | 1h 21m 44s | ||||||
| 1/27/25 | Chatting with India Oxenberg on the Self-help to Cult Pipeline | Jean and Glenn chat with India Oxenberg, author, producer, and activist whose escape from NXIVM is documented in the Starz series “Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult.” India was an executive producer on the series. India also shares her story in her memoir, “Still Learning.” The conversations focusses less on the sensationalist aspects of her cult experience, and more on the self-help nature of NXIVM as an organization, and what attracted India to the group in the first place. More about I... | 55m 02s | ||||||
| 10/21/24 |  Discovering the Dysfunction in Self-help | In this episode, Dr. Doyle and Jean return to the underlying discussion of the self-help industry and the flaws within it that drive SEEK Safely’s mission. It was after Kirby Brown’s death at the 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat that the Brown family discovered some of the rot at the core of this multi-billion dollar industry. This drove the family to found SEEK Safely, recognizing that the impulse to seek is not the issue—it’s the unethical, unregulated self-help providers that are the issue a... | 57m 48s | ||||||
| 5/27/24 | Following up with Anne Peterson, Author of "Is This a Cult" | Previously on the Podcast, Anne Peterson introduced her new memoir, "Is This A Cult?" about her many years of involvement with Landmark. Anne joins the podcast again to discuss the response to her memoir, including a flood of messages from other ex-Landmarkians saying "same here!" Anne also shares what she's learned since her book launch that has given her even more clarity about her own experience and what needs to happen going forward to create a more ethical self-help industry. SEEK is e... | 1h 20m 03s | ||||||
| 5/13/24 | SEEK Safely Podcast (Taylor Edition) with Brit Barkholtz (Part 2) | Here is Part 2 with Brit Barkholtz. Brit Barkholtz is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma and eating disorders, active in the Twitter therapist community as The Caffeinated Therapist. Brit shares her take on MLMs, self-help exploiting trauma, “culty” stuff, and Taylor Swift as a tool of trauma recovery. This episode is Part 1 of 2. To Read: Brit’s thoughts on The Tortured Poet’s Department on HuffPo PESI To Listen To: SEEK Podcast Episode on MLMs SEEK Pod Episode on T... | 46m 15s | ||||||
| 5/6/24 | SEEK Safely Podcast (Taylor Edition) with Brit Barkholtz (Part 1) | Brit Barkholtz is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma and eating disorders, active in the Twitter therapist community as The Caffeinated Therapist. Brit shares her take on MLMs, self-help exploiting trauma, “culty” stuff, and Taylor Swift as a tool of trauma recovery. This episode is Part 1 of 2. To Read: Brit’s thoughts on The Tortured Poet’s Department on HuffPo PESI To Listen To: SEEK Podcast Episode on MLMs SEEK Pod Episode on Trauma Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poet... | 46m 01s | ||||||
| 4/1/24 | Bypassing–Spiritual and Otherwise–in Self-help | Bypassing is, essentially, avoidance. It's something we all do from time to time as a response to something unpleasant in our lives. But sometimes bypassing can cause us to go too far, putting off challenge for later that we'd be better off dealing with now. And sometimes in the self-help world, bypassing is either encouraged or deeply embedded in the thought system being pushed. Dr. Glenn highlights how spiritual bypassing, emotional bypassing, and reality bypassing are all especially danger... | 1h 03m 04s | ||||||
| 3/18/24 | Part 2: “Is This A Cult?” – Anne Peterson's New Memoir about Her Time with Landmark Education & the Infamous Werner Erhard | Continuing our conversation with Anne Peterson, who has decades of involvement with Landmark, one of the original large-group awareness training (LGAT) companies, including experience producing a breakthrough leadership program developed for Landmark's founder, Werner Erhard. She tells her story in her memoir, “Is This A Cult: Confronting the Line Between Transformation and Exploitation.” This episode is Part 2 of 2. Listen to Part 1 if you haven’t already! To Read: https://isthisacultbook.c... | 1h 04m 03s | ||||||
| 3/11/24 | “Is This A Cult?” – Anne Peterson's New Memoir about Her Time with Landmark Education & the Infamous Werner Erhard | Anne Peterson has decades of involvement with Landmark, one of the original large-group awareness training (LGAT) companies, including experience producing a breakthrough leadership program developed for Landmark's founder, Werner Erhard. Millions (3.5 million, according to Landmark's press packet) have passed through its trademark Landmark Forum training, many of them having positive experiences. But after her many years of working with Landmark as a facilitator and program producer, A... | 58m 42s | ||||||
| 2/19/24 | From Kirby Jam 2023: SEEK Safely’s Legislative Effort to Pass Self-help Consumer Protection Legislation | This episode is a throw-back to our annual fundraiser, Kirby Jam, in October 2023. We had live-streamed on a different topic each night, and on this night, Monday, October 16th, we discussed our effort to pass self-help consumer protection legislation. Dr. Glenn, Jean, and SEEK Founder Ginny Brown talk about why we feel the legislation is necessary, what our effort has looked like, and the bill that we are hoping will make it to the floor in the New York State Legislature in 2024. (And ... | 51m 18s | ||||||
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