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Episodes · 12 months
1,881
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Sep 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 84 of 3,584, 118 of 3,862, 103 of 4,115, 104 of 4,226, 151 of 4,731, 183 of 4,438, 171 of 4,230, 171 of 4,319, 195 of 4,515, 217 of 4,419, 237 of 4,624, 147 of 4,594.
All time
6,529
+106 via 83 narrower
On record
1,665
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
today
Nov 13, 2026
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
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All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 56, 64, 54, 64, 46, 54, 40, 29, 42, 33, 30, 36, 47.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 4Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp1,100 people
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19%
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- Prioritize agency over environmental…463 people · 42%
- Focus on somatic and emotional work276 people · 25%
- View narcissism as a social strategy209 people · 19%
- Utilize psychological manipulation…152 people · 14%
Prioritize agency over environmental…
Individuals have significant capacity to shape their own mental states, behaviors, and realities through deliberate mindset and choices.
463 people · 454 episodes
Believing that change is possible is the essential first step to transforming one's life.
“And what you're here to say is no, no, no, no, no. That you are capable of changing. And a lot of what can help you change are the things that we're going to talk about today that you've discovered in your research.”
Mel Robbins · Oct 2025 · 60 episodes · 32.1M views on this topic
Humans possess significant agency over their health and well-being, and they can influence their physical state by changing their mindset and perception of reality.
“we have demonstration after demonstration of the extraordinary control we have over our health and well-being.”
Simon Sinek · Jun 2026 · 12 episodes · 3.5M views on this topic
Business problems are fundamentally personal problems stemming from the psychology of the leader.
“See, you all think this is a business issue. There is no such thing as a business issue. It's always a personal issue.”
Tony Robbins · Apr 2026 · 35 episodes · 10.0M views on this topicFocus on somatic and emotional work
True psychological change and well-being require active somatic engagement or emotional processing rather than mere intellectual insight.
276 people · 272 episodes
Insight into past trauma is insufficient for growth; true change requires somatic work to retrain the nervous system.
“Insight isn't enough. And I can speak from my own experience, I feel really comfortable at the level of the mind understanding all the dynamics. And I'm like, that makes sense to me. And and oh, I see that pattern and okay, great, I got it. But that's different than actually going and facing those p”
Dr. Mayim Bialik · Apr 2026 · 23 episodes · 2.5M views on this topic
Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotions wisely to achieve goals, rather than simply being controlled by them.
“Emotional intelligence is using your emotions wisely to achieve your goals.”
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Aug 2026 · 9 episodes · 5.9M views on this topicLW
A person's romantic life is largely dictated by an unconscious imprint inherited from their mother during pregnancy or early life.
“It is an unconscious event and it comes from our mothers to us when we are either in utero or newborns. And it is our mother's unconscious, meaning all of the parts of her that are unknown to her and specifically the parts that are painful.”
And Now Love Podcast · Oct 2026 · 20 episodes · 1.1M views on this topicView narcissism as a social strategy
Narcissism is not a fixed, innate pathology but a strategic or learned response to manage feelings of inadequacy, shame, or environment.
209 people · 206 episodes
The evidence base supports the view that narcissism is not something a person is born with, but rather a social developmental phenomenon like other personality styles.
“The evidence base supports the idea that narcissism is not something someone is born with, but it's more of a social developmental phenomenon, just like all personality.”
Big Think · Oct 2026 · 35 episodes · 22.0M views on this topic
Narcissism is fundamentally a strategy to manage a deep, internal sense of shame, emptiness, and smallness by constructing an inflated external image.
“It it it has those qualities but underneath it is a deep sense of shame, feeling small, injured, empty. And what people do to manage that is they put a pseudo self on top of that that tends to be kind of inflated and big so they can get from the environment what they need”
Dad Saves America · Dec 2025 · 55 episodes · 2.7M views on this topic
The current social media environment significantly harms children's development, including reducing their IQ, attentional capacity, and social skills.
“This is horrible. This is horrible for their development. IQ is going down. Test scores are going down. Social skills are going down. attentional capacity is going down.”
UnHerd · Jul 2026 · 22 episodes · 4.4M views on this topicUtilize psychological manipulation…
Psychological concepts and human behaviors are tools that can be strategically employed to influence, recruit, or control others.
152 people · 149 episodes
Dr. Phil McGraw argues that individuals like Aubrey Trail use supernatural mythologies strategically as an instrumental manipulation tactic to recruit and control followers.
“And the mythology that they build about everything they can do, the superpowers, the mind readading, the fact that they are vampires, they use that to recruit followers and control them.”
The Dr. Phil Podcast · Nov 2026 · 78 episodes · 12.8M views on this topic
The expert asserts that using confrontational techniques, such as repeatedly calling someone brainwashed, is a counterproductive method for helping individuals leave a cult.
“So the what they were their intentions may have been good to try to get me out, but their technique was counterproductive. >> It it w it made me feel persecuted and I had to dig in deeper. So I just want to make that parallel point.”
The Necessary Conversation · Oct 2026 · 13 episodes · 1.4M views on this topic
He identifies that high-demand groups often instill phobias as a mechanism to maintain control and dependency over members.
“how other groups put phobias in people's minds that control them as a beginning to help people realize that these are irrational fears put in our minds deliberately to keep us dependent and obedient”
Mormon Stories Podcast · Aug 2025 · 41 episodes · 4.9M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Feb 2012