The Sensibly Speaking Podcast

This week, I am tackling the difficult subject of suicide and its prevention. If you’re wondering how I ended up talking on this topic, I explain that in detail too. I truly hope this can help everyone who watches. Enjoy! Sources: Save.

This week I am tackling Theranos and the story of Elizabeth Holmes, a “self-made billionaire” who took Silicon Valley by storm but whose fall from supposed grace was even more spectacular. In this podcast, I take apart what happened and how and then ho...

This week, I am sharing some advice I have learned over the years, and specifically what I think would be the single most helpful thing people can do to stay out of or prevent the kind of trouble that derailed my life as a teenager getting involved in ...

This week I examine the concept of free will and whether or not we have it. This interest has sprung as a direct result of my recent studies and connecting dots between neuroscience, psychology and cult studies.

You may or may not have seen the videos or heard anything about Sovereign Citizens, but they are a thing and they are growing. In this podcast, we take it all apart starting with who this group is, what they basically believe and the kinds of trouble t...

This week I am joined by Sunny Pereira, former Sea Org member and case supervisor, to discuss how Scientology auditing is organized and delivered, including what the case supervisor function is and how very different this is from any normal psycho-ther...

This week, we finished our 30-day social media detox and time away from television and media. It’s almost impossible to overstate the number and significance of the changes which occurred to each of us and together.

This week I am joined by Rachel Bernstein, licensed therapist and cult recovery expert, to discuss “doubling down” and why people will cling to beliefs which have been proven to them to be untrue but which only makes them believe it more.

This week, I am again joined by former Sea Org member and CST staffer Dylan Gill, who illuminates us on many aspects of the Hubbard advices and directives surrounding the mystique of CST. This leads us to many places of conversation including some of o...

What do Scientology training classes actually consist of and how are they run? What happens when you sign up to become a Scientology auditor? How are you treated? How are you supposed to learn? What is this “word clearing” all about?