The personal development industry asks you to trust your practitioner. But what does the evidence say about whether that trust is warranted, and what it's based on?

In this episode, JJ and Alexia dig into one of the industry's most uncomfortable findings - that practitioner experience doesn't reliably improve outcomes, and may slightly worsen them. They look at what research attributes to the practitioner versus the method, and why those two things are harder to separate than they seem. They get into the difference between a practitioner whose presence is the engine of change and one whose method does most of the heavy lifting as well as what that means for how clients should choose who they work with.

There's also something here for practitioners themselves. On self-assessment, energetic boundaries, burnout, and the question nobody in the industry has a clean answer to: How do you know how good you really are?

Direct, evidence-backed, and not especially comfortable for anyone in the room.

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