She used to ask "how could anybody do that?" Then it happened to her family.

Laura & Aaron Beck were devoted parents who, like many, were in the habit of judging other parents who left their child in the back seat of a car until the day it happened to them. In this episode, Laura shares the circumstances leading up to the accident, her new perspective on parenting, how you can prevent hot car infant death & how her non-profit is working for helpful legislative & automobile industry change.

This episode originally aired May 20, 2024.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 303: WHEN GRIEF GETS COMPLICATED: A STORY OF ADDICTION, SHAME & TRUTH

 Guest:

https://www.andersonsalert.org/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091688697854

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2:07 "How Could Anybody Do That?"

4:10 The Day Before: A Warning She Missed

5:41 From Judgment to Curiosity

8:29 "These Aren't Bad Parents"

13:44 A New Work Schedule Changes Everything

21:00 A Storm of Small Events

24:33 The Last "I Love You"

31:12 The Call That Changed Everything

36:15 How She Sees Other Parents Now

38:20 Only Three States Require a Callback

39:51 Shifting Perception Before Problem-Solving

40:36 The Statistics: 50 Deaths a Year

41:36 Why Near Misses Go Uncounted

44:00 Starting Anderson's Alert

45:48 Waiting on NHTSA's Hot Car Rule

48:05 Practical Ways to Prevent Hot Car Deaths

51:58 Rear Seat Reminders Aren't Enough

52:43 Hot Car Awareness Belongs in Every Parenting Guide

53:53 Where to Find Laura and Her Podcast

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Is the skepticism around breast implant illness driven by science or the cosmetic surgery industry? What protocols (for keeping & removing) are working for patients?

Robert Whitfield, MD is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a board-certified breast explant specialist who has performed over 2,000 explant procedures, published 15 peer reviewed publications & testified at the 2019 FDA hearing. He is a leading Breast Implant Illness expert who takes a functional approach to patient recovery. 

In this episode, he says what your surgeon won’t, you’ll hear real symptoms from a listener, why removing them isn’t enough & implant alternatives.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 290: ALLERGIES OR AEROSOLS? THE IGNORED REASON YOU’RE TIRED & SICK

 Guest:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-robert-whitfield-show/id1678143554

https://www.drrobertwhitfield.com/

https://drrobscircle.com/ 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD-Jlr_K8yi5GPV938Ddn9g

https://www.instagram.com/dr.robertwhitfield/?hl=en

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0:00 - Introduction

1:09 - BII Symptoms Explained

3:14 - BII vs. Perimenopause

6:20 - Why "Toxic" Lost Its Meaning

7:51 - A Listener's Symptom Story

8:20 - Textured Implants and Lymphoma

14:16 - The Case for Your Own Tissue

18:18 - The Total Tox Burden Test

22:24 - Can You Heal Without Explanting?

28:37 - Botox and Filler as Alternatives

29:59 - Foreign Body Reaction Explained

32:12 - Medical Gaslighting or Industry Pressure?

33:42 - Dr. Whitfield Responds to Makary

37:09 - When Medicine Dismisses Women

38:14 - How to Vet an Explant Surgeon

40:03 - Pre and Post-Op Protocol

49:29 - What Surgeons Should Be Telling You

52:10 - Still Sick After Explant?

53:52 - Mammograms and Rupture Risk

55:09 - Saunas and Implant Leaching

58:49 - How Urgent Is BII?

1:00:36 - Censored by the Algorithm

1:02:18 - Why Women Must Spread This Message

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Could your mouthwash be causing high blood pressure? Can your spit predict cancer?

Nikki Eisenhauer is a licensed professional counselor, chemical dependency counselor, and professional psychotherapist. She is also an incest & abuse survivor. 

In this episode, we discuss if trigger warnings are a tool for healing or a crutch for victimhood, we explore symptoms that your entire childhood may warrant a trigger warning, what actual trauma is, how not to manipulate ourselves & the best way to support those with trauma without absorbing their pain.

This episode originally aired October 9, 2023

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 312: DID THE #METOO MOVEMENT EVEN HELP US?

 Guest:

https://soulcare.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries 

https://www.emotionalbadass.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/nikkieisenhauer/

https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass

https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass

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0:00 — Are trigger warnings helping or hurting?

0:50 — Nikki's take: good intentions gone sideways

2:55 — What "trigger" actually means

8:25 — How the word trauma got watered down

10:03 — How trigger warnings entered college culture

14:03 — Getting unstuck from a victim mindset

14:33 — Insight: the one thing you can't teach

20:34 — The circle jerk of victimhood

22:31 — Is "seeded trauma" a real thing?

26:04 — When people are addicted to drama

29:17 — Being patient with your subconscious

30:05 — Inner child work and reparenting yourself

32:07 — How to actually support someone with trauma

38:48 — Wrapping up + the Boundaries Course

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Could your mouthwash be causing high blood pressure? Can your spit predict cancer?

Dr. Staci Whitman is a Functional Dentist board-certified in pediatrics with additional certifications in functional medicine, integrative and naturopathic dentistry.

In this episode, she unpacks why common dental complaints like cavities & bleeding gums shouldn’t be interpreted as normal, which at-home saliva tests can help you predict genetic diseases, the difference between functional, holistic and biological dentists & how your foamy toothpaste might be fooling your brain.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 290: ALLERGIES OR AEROSOLS? THE IGNORED REASON YOU’RE TIRED & SICK

 Guest:

https://doctorstaci.com/ 

https://www.ifm.org/ 

https://www.instagram.com/doctor_staci/ 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6P2OeEBQPI2HDW7qznL6eg 

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00:00 — Could your spit predict disease?

04:08 — Why “leaky gums” might matter more than you think

05:38 — The shocking fertility connection nobody talks about

12:28 — “If you lose your spit, your teeth fall apart”

14:04 — Cavities aren’t normal?

15:36 — The real meaning of bleeding gums

17:22 — The awkward truth about chronic bad breath

26:02 — The difference between holistic, biological & functional dentistry

28:11 — The undercover questions to ask your dentist

32:47 — The toothpaste aisle is a psychological experiment

34:22 — Fluoride vs hydroxyapatite

36:10 — The ingredient dentists want you to stop using

40:51 — The oral microbiome test that changed everything

42:34 — What do you actually DO with microbiome data?

46:58 — Why podcasters should scrape their tongues

50:02 — How mouthwash may affect blood pressure

54:41 — The postnasal drip question nobody asks dentists

56:13 — Mold, allergies & the hidden oral microbiome chaos

59:52 — Air quality, dust & the stuff you breathe all day

1:01:21 — Perimenopause… but for your teeth

1:07:38 — The top 3 things helping your oral microbiome

1:20:21 — Building the future of functional dentistry

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What is it like to change your mind on something you wrote a best seller on?

Joshua Harris is the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a best-selling book in the late ’90s touting courtship as the superior way to find God’s perfect match for you & avoid the perils of sexual sin. It was a required read for many in the evangelical Christian community. In this episode, Josh shares how he changed his mind about the ideas in the book, how our sex lives & careers are connected, and the pros & cons of old-fashioned dating & sexism in the church.

This episode originally aired October 10, 2022.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 331: DISINTANGLING FAITH FROM RELIGIOUS TRAUMA [REMASTERED]

 Guests:

https://www.instagram.com/harrisjosh/

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/clear-loud-with-josh-harris/id1612325690

https://joshharris.com/

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00:00 — The purity culture starter pack

00:51 — Why changing your mind is terrifying

01:46 — When “cancel culture” becomes accountability

03:29 — The theology behind courtship culture

04:32 — The generation that tested the experiment

05:42 — When church certainty started collapsing

06:48 — Leaving the pastor role to question everything

07:46 — Seminary made him leave ministry?

09:33 — Does premarital sex actually help people choose better?

10:54 — Why most churches still reject sexual freedom

12:01 — “We got married quickly because we were horny”

13:00 — How purity culture rewires your relationship with sex

14:17 — The impossible expectations placed on women

15:20 — Marrying in high school to avoid sex

16:09 — Mourning the twenties purity culture stole

17:04 — “That regret is real”

18:11 — The heartbreak of choosing the wrong person

19:00 — Why Joshua wishes he’d traveled and dated more

19:53 — Learning to ask: “What do I actually want?”

20:41 — The divorced ex-evangelical support group

21:18 — Are any ideas from I Kissed Dating Goodbye still useful?

22:06 — Tinder burnout and the return of courtship thinking

23:01 — The real problem with modern dating

23:52 — Freedom vs shame-based control

24:43 — Women who thought tampons threatened purity

25:36 — The “formula” women were sold for happiness

26:41 — Parents trying to control teenage sexuality

28:04 — The 1800s obsession with female ignorance

29:15 — The history of prostitution and Christian morality

30:26 — Why Joshua’s sexual inexperience gave him authority

31:07 — Evangelicalism’s addiction to big movements

31:56 — Why twenty-somethings think they can fix the world

32:40 — How should we talk to kids about sex now?

33:03 — Removing shame from sexuality

33:54 — Sexual freedom also includes saying “that’s not for me”

34:52 — Living with one less regret

35:20 — Books and voices critiquing purity culture

36:22 — Joshua’s pivot into podcasting and business

36:34 — “We’re in the same club”

36:41 — The accidental ex-purity culture reunion club

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Do dreams happen in our minds? What can lucid dreaming tell us about the nature of consciousness? 

Dave Green is a London-based artist who creates drawings not FROM his dreams, but IN his dreams, which he re-creates upon waking. He’s the author of Doodles In the Dark: An Artist's Guide to Lucid Dreaming & has participated in lucid & precognitive dream research with my other guest, Damon Abraham, PhD, a parapsychologist & the principal research scientist for the consciousness mobile app Entangled.
 
In this episode, Dave shows us how he uses lucid dreaming to create art WHILE he’s dreaming & Dr. Abraham unpacks the science of the research behind it. You’ll hear about the layers of lucid dreaming, when it becomes an out of body experience & how this may be connected to precognition, the debate about where consciousness lives & why Dave is hesitant to label himself as anything other than a lucid dreaming artist.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 308: HOW TO THINK IMPOSSIBLY: PRECOGNITION, POLTERGEISTS & TIME

 Guests:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEf56ussbNkUwXYOBjNQIqg 

https://www.instagram.com/davegreen5000/ 

https://x.com/davegreen5000 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-abraham-phd/

https://entangled.org/

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0:00 — Dreams as Art: Meet Dave Green & Dr. Damon Abraham

1:06 — Drawing Inside a Lucid Dream

3:02 — Waking Yourself Up On Purpose

3:26 — What Lucid Dreaming Actually Is

5:02 — Control vs. Awareness in the Dream State

7:04 — How Both Guests Discovered Lucid Dreaming

8:56 — Is a Nightmare Origin Story the Norm?

10:10 — Lucid Dreaming vs. Out-of-Body Experiences

12:08 — Why "OBE" Is a Loaded Label

15:03 — Do Dreams Happen Inside Your Head?

18:23 — Researcher Hat vs. Experiencer Hat

19:40 — Damon's OBE: The Bathroom Journal Story

22:26 — The Lottie Dream Portrait Walkthrough

28:22 — Precognition & Verifying What You See

29:41 — Did the Telepathy Tapes Help This Research?

32:14 — Lucid Dreaming Is More Common Than You Think

35:11 — Brainwaves During a Lucid Dream

36:20 — How Dave Navigates Dream Scenery

39:11 — Dave's Portrait Technique

41:23 — The Precognition Experiment Explained

45:18 — The Temptation to Avoid Uncomfortable Conclusions

48:50 — Is the Brain Generating or Receiving Consciousness?

51:21 — Has This Changed How You See Reality?

54:55 — The Real-World Utility of Lucid Dreaming

58:16 — Dave's Dream Yoga Practice

1:00:53 — Third Person Dreams & What They Mean

1:01:44 — Giving a Dream Character a Pen

1:04:57 — Why You Should Start a Dream Journal

1:06:12 — Dave's Book & Dream Portraits

1:07:33 — Damon's Entangled App

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Would you go to a psychic Olympics? Does psi have real-world benefits or is it just a way to make people feel like their special?

Hakim Isler served 4 years in the Army as a psi op specialist in special operations forces, is a 6th degree blackbelt in Ninjitsu, a trained remote viewer under Joe McMoneagle himself. He’s also the founder of the Psi Games, a family-friendly competition & conference where neuroscientists, consciousness researchers, & military trained remote viewers make up the lecture roster & psi practitioners ready to put their psychic skills to the test line up to compete.

 
 In this episode we explore how developing your psi abilities may have deeply practical benefits, the ethics of psychic “powers,” preventing cult dynamics, when religion and psi clash & what to expect at the psi games 2026.

Get 15% off your ticket to the Psi Games using code PG26INTROVERT15

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 314: SCIENCE & THE SUPERNATURAL: PROJECT STARGATE, EXPERIMENTAL METAPHYSICS & QUANTUM PHYSICS

 Guest:

https://www.hakim-isler.com/

https://psigamesinternational.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/hakimisler/ 

https://www.facebook.com/Boss.kr74/ 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565002172093 

https://www.youtube.com/@PsiGamesInternational 

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01:07 — What “PSI” actually means

03:36 — Is intuition a luxury or a lifeline?

05:44 — The hidden cost of feeling separate

07:50 — How PSI reduces fear

09:12 — Is “extra sensory” actually just sensory?

11:45 — Convenience vs human potential

14:32 — Are psychic abilities intentionally demonized?

15:16 — The ethics problem nobody talks about

17:57 — Psyops, manipulation & control structures

18:05 — PTSD after psychological operations training

18:44 — MK Ultra, Tuskegee & algorithmic manipulation

23:13 — The danger of hiding your gifts

26:19 — What actually happens at the PSI Games

34:22 — X-Men, Chronicle & psychic chaos

35:32 — Why outsiders are drawn to PSI communities

38:54 — Why openness may prevent cult dynamics

40:26 — “I want to be a steward, not a king”

44:12 — Beyond party tricks & bent spoons

46:02 — The martial arts student Hakeem never forgot

51:11 — Denominations, jargon & helping your neighbor

51:42 — How to attend the PSI Games

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What is orgasmic meditation? Where is the line between cutting-edge wellness & cult behavior? Is the word “cult” too divisive to be helpful?

Ellen Huet is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. Gher investigative piece on OneTaste lead to the FBI investigation & eventually arrest of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. She also wrote EMPIRE OF ORGASM, chronicling how the sex self-help group twisted sexual abuse into personal growth. 

 
In this episode we explore the new image of modern-day cults, the timeline of OneTaste & its leader & who is most vulnerable to cult recruitment.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 305: ARE POLITICAL PARTIES JUST CULTS?!

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https://a.co/d/06drvW9D 

https://www.ellenhuet.com/ 

https://www.ellenhuet.com/about 

https://x.com/ellenhuet 

https://www.instagram.com/ehuet/ 

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00:00 — Sex, Cults & Startups

01:16 — Wrong Beat, Right Story

01:55 — The 15-Minute Practice

03:51 — Wellness Has a Price Tag

06:18 — Quit Your Job, Move In

08:00 — Consent Gets Complicated

13:01 — Bodies on the Line

15:48 — Victimhood Is Forbidden

17:51 — Free Meetup, Expensive Trap

21:22 — Searching for Something Deeper

23:09 — Gwyneth Approved It

26:00 — Break the Debt Seal

28:06 — Modern Cults Look Normal

31:03 — Chatbots and Spiral Thinking

33:32 — Red Flags to Watch

36:18 — Nicole's Complicated Childhood

41:54 — She Took the Practice

43:26 — San Francisco Let It Slide

45:29 — The Warehouse Experiment

47:44 — WiFi Password: NotACult

50:11 — The Woman Behind Nicole

51:45 — Selling Her Own Vision

53:33 — The Story Nobody Had Told

56:49 — Guilty, Then Sentenced

57:58 — Bored, Lonely, Missing It

01:02:07 — Seeking a Presidential Pardon

01:02:53 — Why People Believe Things

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"We made an agreement with each other that we would not eat each other no matter how hungry we got." Douglas Robertson is the author of The Last Voyage of the Lucette. He was just a teenager when his family was lost at sea for 38 days. 

 
 In this episode he shares more than just a survival story. He shares his unique coming of age story & an opportunity to recalibrate what crisis is. You’ll also hear about killer whale attacks, eating sharks, drinking turtle blood, sea water enemas & adjusting to life on land after being rescued.

This episode originally aired December 11, 2023.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 189: SURVIVING A SERIAL KILLER: VICTIM TO FELON TO FLOURISHING

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https://a.co/d/4PIalGL

http://www.survivethesavagesea.com/

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00:00:00 — Worst Field Trip Ever

00:00:53 — Learning Sailing… Sailing

00:03:33 — Six People, One Boat

00:05:27 — Before It All Sank

00:08:34 — The Rejected Life Raft

00:09:07 — Whale Loves Boat

00:10:00 — Everyone Had a Bad Feeling

00:12:23 — Three Whales. One Hit.

00:14:01 — Sinking in Two Minutes

00:17:12 — Checking for Missing Legs

00:20:03 — Truth Over False Hope

00:22:45 — The First "No" to Dad

00:27:06 — What's for Dinner: Turtle

00:29:42 — Day 38: Don't Get Excited

00:33:43 — Coffee After 38 Days

00:36:05 — Fear Doesn't Hit the Same

00:37:58 — The Story That Won't Die

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What made the American funeral industry what it is today? Why do we embalm? How do societal status & funeral styles overlap?

Gary Laderman, PhD, is the Goodrich C. White Prof of Amer Religious History & Cultures at Emory University in Georgia, the author of multiple books & featured on The Mortician: an HBO documentary covering a 1980s funeral home who exploited grieving families.

In this episode, you’ll hear how funeral rituals went from DIY to the elaborate & long list of menu options today, how those options supported or detracted from family status, the spooky status of the death worker themselves, how embalming changed everything (hello capitalism!) & the growing resistance towards the commodification of death

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 278: MORBID OR SACRED? LET’S TALK ABOUT DEATH (WITH A DEATH DOULA)

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https://garyladerman.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/garyladerman/ 

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04:00 — Death for Sale

05:30 — When Death Was a Family Affair

09:20 — Strange Death Rituals in America

12:00 — A Patchwork of Beliefs

13:20 — The Birth of the Funeral Industry

15:30 — Respect, Race, and Funeral Culture

17:00 — Profit Meets Death

20:30 — Death Moves to the Hospital

27:00 — Animals, Intoxication, and Curiosity

29:00 — Religion or Escape?

30:30 — The Power of Ritual

32:00 — The Embalming Shift

32:30 — Lincoln’s Death Tour

36:30 — JFK and Public Mourning

39:30 — Exposing the Death Industry

40:45 — Our Obsession with Famous Deaths

42:30 — Bringing Death Back Home

45:30 — When Options Become Overwhelm

46:00 — Life After Religion

47:30 — Reclaiming Death Traditions

48:45 — Designing Your Own Goodbye

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