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- Leading body language expert human behavior analyst and author, Susan Constantine, talks deception detection, ways to catch a liar and decoding the truth behind lies on this week’s “Phil in the Blanks” podcast from Dr. Phil. Susan looks for "deceptive language – liars appeal to your logic, often using words to remove t...
- Sep 3rd, 2019An episode all about anxiety—from panicky thought-spirals to private self-soothing techniques. Featuring Aparna Nancherla, Jenny Odell, Sarah Wilson, our extremely anxious colleague Ruth Spencer, and many more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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SocietyCulturePersonal Journals - She's the author of bestselling books and an incredibly popular blog, but Jenny Lawson showed up to our interview wondering, at least a little, if her appearance on this show and her whole career, really, was part of some delusion. It's not. She's the real thing: an incredibly funny and honest writer with a legion of f...
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ComedyMental Health - Dec 4th, 2017We’ve gathered up a whole lot of tips, tricks, ideas, and stories to help you get through this time of year when merriness and jolliness aren’t always in abundant supply. Hear holiday thoughts from Wil Wheaton, Margaret Cho, Jenny Lawson, John Green, Aimee Mann, and more. Plus, a story about a slobbering zebra.
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ComedyMental Health - Aug 12th, 2019We asked our listeners for books they've read that give an accurate depiction of the reality of depression. Happily, we got enough great suggestions to weigh down a shopping cart at the bookstore or leave a library card smoldering. A name that came up a lot was author Jenny Lawson, who happens to be a friend of the sho...
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- If you've enjoyed any comedy in the last 20 years, there's a good chance Neal Brennan helped make it. He's a veteran comic, writer, director, and co-creator, with Dave Chappelle, of the acclaimed Chappelle's Show. Over the past 20-plus years, he's also tried everything he could think of to tame his depression. Hear Nea...
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ComedyMental Health - Nov 12th, 2018True stories of beautiful epiphanies and majestic, horrible disasters. Talk therapy is one of the most popular ways to address depression and it's one of the most effective. Still, at its root, talk therapy is a relationship between two humans -- strangers, mostly -- trying to figure out something complicated together,...
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ComedyMental Health - Young people can be morose, angry, withdrawn. It's often chalked up to being a "phase," a natural initiation ritual to adulthood. What if it's not? What if it's a mental disorder in need of help? We hear from the always-entertaining comedian and writer Jen Kirkman about her efforts to understand her head. We also talk ...
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ComedyMental Health - Sep 9th, 2019You might know Pete Holmes from his many standup specials, his talk show, or Crashing, the HBO series he created and starred in. You might not know the long and varied spiritual path he's traveled in his life. Pete was an incredibly devout Christian, living by the Bible and obsessed with avoiding eternal damnation. Fol...
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- Jul 23rd, 2019Gun fights, heroin trafficking, burglaries, kidnapping threats, intra-band infidelity and the greatest rock ‘n’ roll record ever made, Exile on Main St. The Rolling Stones created this album as fugitives––tax fugitives––exiled from their homeland to the French Riviera and desperate to keep their career afloat after a n...
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MusicTrue CrimeSociety - In the sixth installment of his series Living By Design on the fan-favorite “Phil in the Blanks” podcast, Dr. Phil continues his discussion of the 16 steps people can take to come out on top - from learning to claim and accept praise, to knowing your real currency. For more information: https://www.drphilintheblanks.co...
- Feb 5th, 2019On this episode, I will be "Phil -ing in the Blanks" in your life. This is my new series where I will help you get “the edge” in your life. I want you to know who you are, and more importantly how you got to be there. The only person you have to control, to make a huge change in your life is you. What I want you to d...
- Sep 24th, 2019Dr. Phil is continuing to discuss the 16 steps you can take to come out on top – a playbook for life. Are you reactive or proactive? How can change your life by doing a few key strategies for 30 minutes every day? Listen in and learn how having a plan, keeping things “close to the vest” and always being in investigator...
- If you want to be a winner, Dr. Phil says there are 16 things you need to do to get ahead and come out on top. On this week’s all-new Living By Design Phil in the Blanks podcast, learn what you can do to maximize your position in life. “I am going to tell you why winners win and losers lose and trust me, it is not an a...
- Oct 8th, 2019Dr. Phil says, “Never put yourself in an untenable position by picking a battle that you don’t need to fight and don’t know with great certainty, that you can win.” See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Are you bold enough to stretch yourself? Find out in the eighth installment of Living By Design. In this episode, Dr. Phil tells listeners, “You have to believe enough in yourself to get out there and reach for what you want,” and discusses working on your Playbook for Life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...
- Apr 2nd, 2019Life is riddled with bad guys so in the latest installment of the Living By Design series Dr. Phil teaches you how to identify the people who will “screw you over” and “take what is yours” -- and how to protect yourself and those you love. Learn about BAITERs and the Evil 8 qualities that identify a BAITER so you can w...
- Are you ready to put yourself first and start accomplishing your goals to get to where you want to be in life? Dr. Phil says it’s never too late to get started -- and he’s going to tell you what you need to do to get an edge in your life in his Living by Design series. Learn the seven core characteristics of a champion...
- Mar 5th, 2019What are the ten defining moments in your life? What seven critical choices have you made? And who are the five pivotal people that you’ve encountered along the way? These are just a few of the questions that Dr. Phil explores on his next podcast that could help reveal why you're where you are right at this moment. For...
- Veteran police sergeant and author of 400 Things Cops Know and Police Craft, Adam Plantinga, is Dr. Phil’s guest on this week’s Phil in the Blanks podcast. Ever wonder what a cop knows? How they think? What they feel? How they cope with the streets? How they do their jobs? Sgt. Adam Plantinga knows the answers to all t...
- Apr 9th, 2019Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey have been close friends and professional colleagues since she first invited him to be a regular contributor on The Oprah Winfrey Show over 23 years ago. On the latest episode of Phil in the Blanks, Dr. Phil says that he’s never forgotten the help Oprah gave him. He also reveals that he sends ...
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- Apr 16th, 2019Marriage: Why do we bother? Our theory is that it all comes down to a good story--so this week, we've got two couples with really good stories. First, she's Deaf and he's hearing. Second, a couple who met while he was serving 25 years in prison.And... we want to hear from you! We're working on an episode about calling...
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