Phil in the Blanks

By Dr. Phil McGraw

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Experience a side of Dr. Phil McGraw you may have been missing as he delves into the minds of the most exciting and accomplished people. McGraw provides critical information on some of the most important issues we face today. From celebrities to ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, to the world’s leading experts and “disrupters,” every guest will be provocative, informative, and relevant. For more information: https://www.drphilintheblanks.com

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The Dangers Of Social Media...

01.24.2023

Social media is full of wonderful opportunities for people to connect. It is also filled with people who push identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. Imran Ahmed, Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, joins Dr. ...

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01.24.2023 The Dangers Of Social Media Content- Part 1 Social media is full of wonderful opportunities for people to connect. It is also filled with people who push identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. Imran Ahmed, Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, joins Dr. ...
01.17.2023 Tech Addiction: Digital Madness- How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Psychologist Dr. Nicholas Kardaras joins Dr. Phil to discuss the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. Can having a smartphone cause an emotional crisis? Does detoxing from digital have the same symptoms as detoxing from crack? Is toxic programming ...
01.10.2023 Heal Your Body And Build Strength In A Sustainable Way Do crunches work? Should you warm up prior to working out? Dr. Patrick DeFazio and David Fabrizio join Dr. Phil on his Phil in the Blanks podcast to discuss how you can do simple activities to reduce the risk of ...
01.03.2023 Your Best Start To 2023 2023 is the year of getting rid of time wasting media and using your precious attention more wisely, and there is no better way to gain all the insights, entertainment and information you need than to subscribe to Phil In ...
12.27.2022 Best Moments: Phil in the Blanks Best moments of this season: In this riveting compilation of the very best memorable moments from this past podcast season listeners will find powerful insights and exciting information we all need to help make life better moving forward. Listen in ...
12.20.2022 Teaching Kids To Speak Up From how to teach your kids what to do when it comes to safety online and in real life to what changes need to be made in the American education system, Dr. Phil and Ross Szabo, Wellness Director of the ...
12.13.2022 What To Do About The Teen Mental Health Crisis Mental health issues among teens are on the rise. Why is this happening? How do parents and schools play a role? And most importantly, what do we do about it? On this episode of the Phil in the Blanks podcast, ...
12.06.2022 Parents? Teachers? Bureaucrats? – Who Can Fix The Education System In America? Sadly, the interest to become a teacher or remain a teacher is the worst in our nation’s history. We’ll tackle the teacher shortage, low standards, student whining, and new requirements in states like AZ & FL that passed what critics ...
11.29.2022 The Psychology Of Good People With Social Psychologist Dolly Chugh Social psychologist Dolly Chugh joins Dr. Phil on the Phil in the Blanks podcast to discuss how to embrace, rather than ignore, the contradictions of American history. “This love of country is getting in the way of us actually engaging ...
11.22.2022 From Revenge Porn To Identity Theft: Avoid Being Exploited Online When it comes to taking or sending intimate pictures and videos, you need to tread very carefully because revenge porn is real! Cybersecurity expert and owner of Bullyville.com James McGibney joins Dr. Phil on the Phil in the Blanks podcast ...
11.15.2022 40 Conversations To Have With Yourself Life is hard, but it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. Psychotherapist and author of the book, “How Am I Doing? 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself,” Dr. Corey Yeager joins Dr. Phil on ...
11.08.2022 Zero Victim! Victimhood culture, a concept that originates in sociology, is today defined as a tendency of people to over-emphasize the need to protect their (sexual, gender, ethnic) identity and to present themselves as victims, even if the alleged offense was minor ...
11.01.2022 The Search For Solutions To Homelessness And Addiction Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, on the Phil in the Blanks podcast. They dig deeper into the controversial topic of harm reduction, the concept of treating drug abuse like ...
10.25.2022 Pushing Back On ‘Harm Reduction’ Policies “Harm reduction” is a theory that argues deaths from overdoses can be greatly reduced with the implementation of strategies that allow people with drug dependency access to drugs in a safe way. Michael Shellenberger, author of “San Fransicko: Why Progressives ...
10.18.2022 Sen. Scott Wiener Discusses ‘Safe Sites’ For Drug Addicts To Use Sen. Scott Wiener Discusses ‘Safe Sites’ For Drug Addicts To Use California State Senator Scott Wiener joins Dr. Phil on his Phil in the Blanks podcast to discuss “safe sites” for drug addicts to use. Senator Wiener, who wrote Senate ...
10.11.2022 The Four Essentials Of Modern-Day Parenting With Dr. Charles Sophy Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy joins Dr. Phil on his Phil in the Blanks podcast to share parenting tips from his new book, Family Values: Reset Trust, Boundaries, and Connection With Your Child. “If you put your child first, your needs ...
10.04.2022 Diving Into The Homeless Crisis In America California has the highest number of homeless encampments in the United States and holds more than half of all unsheltered homeless people. In an effort to resolve homelessness, major cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, Houston, and ...
09.27.2022 WebMD’s Chief Medical Officer Talks About Diabetes Prevention Dr. John Whyte, chief medical officer for WebMD and author of “Take Control of Your Diabetes Risk,” says nearly 95 million people are pre-diabetic, and nearly half of those don’t know it. “I call it FoFo – Fear of finding ...
09.20.2022 The Profile Of A School Shooter The Profile Of A School Shooter Dr. James Densley and Dr. Jillian Peterson join Dr. Phil on his Phil in the Blanks podcast to share what they have learned about the profile of school shooters. “If we’re just talking school ...
09.13.2022 Dr. Phil Welcomes Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Dr. Phil Welcomes Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has represented the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and more. “All we’re trying to do is get people to see the humanity ...
09.06.2022 The Most Important Season of Dr. Phil in 21 Years! Dr. Phil addresses the most important season of 'Dr. Phil' in the last 21 years! You asked him the tough questions and he is answering them right now! Tune in to see what's next for 'Dr. Phil' and how you ...
08.30.2022 Revenge Addiction And What You Can Do To Stop It "Revenge addiction is even more dangerous than substance addiction," says Dr. James Kimmel Jr., lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, founder and co-creator of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies, and the developer of the behavioral ...
08.23.2022 Former White House Staffer Stephanie Grisham Talks Trump Stephanie Grisham spent years as a member of Donald Trump’s innermost circle. Grisham, who worked at the White House as Press Secretary and as Melania Trump’s Chief of Staff, joins Dr. Phil on the Phil in the Blanks podcast to ...
08.16.2022 The Psychology Of Success With Dr. Anne Shadle Dr. Anne Shadle is an expert in the psychology of success. “It’s training your mind to know exactly what you need to do,” says the two-time NCAA national track and field champion and former professional runner. Dr. Shadle, who holds ...
08.09.2022 Free Speech And The Effects Of Cancel Culture Solveig Gold, a senior research assistant at Princeton's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and PhD candidate in classics at the University of Cambridge, joins Dr. Phil to discuss free speech and the effects of cancel culture. Gold ...
08.02.2022 The Future Of America With Bakari Sellers At just 22 years old, Bakari Sellers defeated a 26-year incumbent state representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African-American elected official in the nation. Sellers, who was considered to be a ...
07.26.2022 The Speeches You’ve Never Heard That Would’ve Changed The World How many times have people planned a certain outcome that never took place? They thought something was going to come to pass, and then it didn't. Or, what about leaders who had two different speeches written and gave one, not ...
07.19.2022 Founder Of ‘Marshall Plan For Moms’ Talks About Empowering Working Women Attorney, activist, and founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, Reshma Saujani has spent over a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech ...
07.12.2022 How Science May Prevent School Shootings - Dr. James Kimmel Jr. Dr. James Kimmel Jr., lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, founder and co-creator of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies, and the developer of the behavioral addiction model of violence joins Dr. Phil to discuss how ...
07.05.2022 Documentary Filmmaker Talks About ‘Cancel Culture’ Author, business executive, retired national gymnast and award-winning documentarian Jennifer Sey joins Dr. Phil for a discussion on today’s toxic social climate and how she says she got caught up in the crosshairs of “cancel culture.” New episodes of Phil ...
06.28.2022 Human Trafficking In Our Own Backyard Kay Buck, executive director of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), the only organization in the U.S. that is exclusively dedicated to working on the human rights issue of trafficking, joins Dr. Phil to share what we can ...
06.21.2022 Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Spills All “He has been helping politicians get elected to the most powerful positions in the country for decades,” Dr. Phil says. Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary, strategist, communications expert, and author joins Dr. Phil on the Phil in the ...
06.14.2022 Wrongful Convictions, Righteous Exonerations Valentino Dixon’s world was turned upside down when he was wrongly accused and then convicted of a double homicide after another man confessed to the crime. He was exonerated after spending 27 years behind bars. Marty Tankleff was wrongly convicted ...
06.07.2022 Author And Soldier Izzy Ezagui Talks Returning To Battle After Losing An Arm – ‘Phil In The Blanks’ Podcast From video game nerd to squad commander in the Israeli Defense Forces, actor, stunt performer, screenwriter, and author Izzy Ezagui says he is the only soldier in the world to lose an arm in combat and return to the battlefield ...
05.31.2022 When Is Enough Enough? The Deadly School Shooting In Uvalde, Texas Two teachers and 19 children are dead after a recent shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “Almost half of school shootings are over in the first few minutes. That means we need to prevent it before it happens,” ...
05.24.2022 Communication Skills That Help You ‘Get What You Want’ Dr. Phil and Dr. Frank Luntz, USC professor and president of Frank I. Luntz and Associates, continue their conversation with a focus group of USC students on how to communicate more effectively – and how young people can work on ...
05.17.2022 Turning Opposing Views Into Effective Communication Is it possible to build bridges and put an end to “Us versus Them"? Dr. Frank Luntz, USC professor and president of Frank I. & Associates, survey research and consulting firm says, “If people don’t feel heard, they get mad, ...
05.10.2022 Change Your Story, Change Your Life –With Lori Gottlieb Can people really change? Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb joins Dr. Phil on his Phil in the Blanks podcast and offers tips for changing your life – and making the changes stick. “People have the answers. ...
05.03.2022 From Raising Kids To Raising ‘Hell’ – Stand-Up Comedian Christina P. Christina P. is a stand-up comedian, writer, TV personality, and mother of two. Her hugely successful podcast Your Mom’s House, which she hosts with her husband, comedian Tom Segura, has been going strong since 2010. On this week’s Phil in ...
04.26.2022 Nikki Glaser On Comedy, Her Life, And Her New Show One of the funniest voices in comedy today, Nikki Glaser, joins the Phil in the Blanks podcast. Glaser, who has been performing stand-up for over a decade, is the host of three hit podcasts and has a brand new daily ...
04.19.2022 Obsessed With The Experience Of Guy Fieri Dr. Phil dives into the "secret sauce" of Guy Fieri and how he has become one of the most recognizable and influential culinary stars in the world. Listen in and hear what fueled Guy's love for food, how he is ...
04.12.2022 Imagine...How YOU Can Change The World Dr. Phil has an in-depth conversation with Dr. Frank Luntz, President of Frank I. Luntz & Associates, a survey research and consulting firm, and an American political communications consultant. The conversation is not just us versus them anymore. It is ...
04.05.2022 Avoid Getting Conned, Scammed and Ripped Off Dr. Phil addresses the top scams and frauds plaguing the world today. Who are these scammers? Why do they do what they do? What are the different kinds of currency that motivate fraudsters? Laura McNeal, Tracy Siska, Steve Greenberg, and ...
03.29.2022 Analyzing Body Language With The Behavior Panel Have you ever wondered how experts determine whether someone is lying? Dr. Phil and The Behavior Panel debunk the biggest misconceptions about body language and discuss the finer points of deception detection. “Pay attention to what people are not saying ...
03.22.2022 The Pandemic Aftermath And How It’s Affecting Students Dr. Phil speaks with parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba and author of Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine, about how students are struggling with depression, anxiety, and overwhelm due to the pandemic and time spent ...
03.15.2022 How Coddling Kids Is Ruining Their Future Dr. Phil speaks with psychologist and licensed clinical social worker Dr. Deena Manion about how coddling the younger generation is at odds with the general teachings of psychology. “Protecting college kids from what the real world is not the way ...
03.08.2022 Dr. Phil: Ukraine, Putin and Implicit Bias (Part 2) Dr. Phil answers psychological questions about the war in Ukraine, Putin “who is this guy?” and digs into implicit bias. For more information: http://drphilintheblanks.com/ Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/PhilintheBlanks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.08.2022 Dr. Phil Announcement On Ukraine (Part 1) Dr. Phil makes an announcement on Ukraine and addresses listeners' questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.01.2022 2 Years Later: Have Views On Black Lives Changed? Dr. Phil devotes his platform to analyzing how life has changed for Black Americans in the almost two years since the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, and the subsequent widespread Black Lives Matter protests demanding ...
02.22.2022 Treat Specific Parts of Your Brain To End Anxiety, Depression And Tremors Internationally recognized neuroradiologist Dr. Bradley Jabour joins Dr. Phil to offer important information about brain bleeds, warning signs and breakthroughs on the treatment of brain degeneration, traumatic brain injury, neuropsychiatric disorders and essential tremors. “With a head injury, I’d rather ...

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