45 Episodes

  1. AI: The Shiny, Environmentally Destructive Magic 8 Ball

    Published: 6/23/2025

  2. Talking ICSA 2025: the International Cultic Studies Association's Annual Conference

    Published: 4/21/2025

  3. Mid-season Check-in (aka SEEK Safely Podcast Pajama Party)

    Published: 3/31/2025

  4. Dr. John Hunter Explains how Self-help Events are “Manufacturing Mania”

    Published: 3/10/2025

  5. Entering the Post-guru Phase of Self-help: Reflecting on James Ray’s Death with Dr. Christine Whelan

    Published: 2/24/2025

  6. SEEK Safely Summit Recap with Anne Peterson

    Published: 2/10/2025

  7. Chatting with India Oxenberg on the Self-help to Cult Pipeline

    Published: 1/27/2025

  8. Discovering the Dysfunction in Self-help

    Published: 10/21/2024

  9. Following up with Anne Peterson, Author of "Is This a Cult"

    Published: 5/27/2024

  10. SEEK Safely Podcast (Taylor Edition) with Brit Barkholtz (Part 2)

    Published: 5/13/2024

  11. SEEK Safely Podcast (Taylor Edition) with Brit Barkholtz (Part 1)

    Published: 5/6/2024

  12. Bypassing–Spiritual and Otherwise–in Self-help

    Published: 4/1/2024

  13. Part 2: “Is This A Cult?” – Anne Peterson's New Memoir about Her Time with Landmark Education & the Infamous Werner Erhard

    Published: 3/18/2024

  14. “Is This A Cult?” – Anne Peterson's New Memoir about Her Time with Landmark Education & the Infamous Werner Erhard

    Published: 3/11/2024

  15. From Kirby Jam 2023: SEEK Safely’s Legislative Effort to Pass Self-help Consumer Protection Legislation

    Published: 2/19/2024

  16. Self-help Books that Arent's Self-help Books with Guest Dr. Christine Whelan

    Published: 2/5/2024

  17. Healthy, Less Self-helpy New Year's Resolutions

    Published: 1/15/2024

  18. BINGO! We’ve got another Self-help Cult with Twin Flames Universe

    Published: 1/1/2024

  19. Taking on the 'Giant Within' Self-help: Tony Robbins (PART 2)

    Published: 12/18/2023

  20. Taking on the 'Giant Within' Self-help: Tony Robbins (PART 1)

    Published: 12/4/2023

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The SEEK Safely podcast is the official voice of the nonprofit organization SEEK Safely Inc, which advocates for ethics and accountability in the self-help industry, and empowers seekers to have safe and effective self-improvement journeys. Jean Brown and Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle peel back the layers of the largely unregulated, multi-billion dollar self-help industry, discussing the patterns of exploitation and deception that pervade the industry and allow self-help gurus to thrive at the expense of their customers and followers. Along the way we’ll have discussions with people who care as much as we do about the self-help industry being held accountable for the promises it makes–and we lay out our vision of a world in which seekers are respected and protected.