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#288: Cult Survivor Turned Army Spy Exposes the Cult Playbook in 10 Steps - Daniella Mestyanek Young

July 30, 2026

She was born three generations into one of the most extreme cults in American history - where child abuse was doctrine and children were the product. She escaped at 15 with nothing.In this episode I sit down with Daniella Mestyanek Young, who went from a childhood in the Children of God cult to graduating valedictorian, becoming a U.S. Army intelligence officer stationed in Afghanistan, and still, through all of it, convinced she was fine.She wasn't. And the way she found that out is one of t...

#287: Revealing The Truth About Homelessness & What Rebuilds a Man's Life - Mark Horvath

July 23, 2026

Most of us walk past someone sleeping on the street and tell ourselves a story about how they got there.In this episode I sit down with Mark Horvath, founder of Invisible People, and he challenges pretty much everything I thought I knew.We talk about why most homeless people are actually sober, why affordable housing is the real issue and not personal failure, how politicians are using homeless people to score points, and why the most expensive thing we can do is leave people on the streets.B...

#286: Lawyer-Turned-Therapist Exposes Therapy's Dirty Secret - Mark A. Michaels

July 15, 2026

Most of us assume the person with the credentials knows us better than we know ourselves.In this episode, I sit down with lawyer-turned-therapist and author Mark A. Michaels to explore why that assumption might be therapy's biggest blind spot.We talk about the authority of the therapist versus the authority of lived experience, the myth of Freud's Oedipus complex and what the story is actually about, growing up with a family secret that took thirty years to uncover, the right to your own ther...