Winamp Logo
Seek Safely Cover
Seek Safely Profile

Seek Safely

English, Social, 4 seasons, 38 episodes, 1 day, 11 hours, 1 minute
About
The SEEK Safely podcast is the official voice of the nonprofit organization SEEK Safely Inc, which advocates for ethics and accountability in the self-help industry, and empowers seekers to have safe and effective self-improvement journeys. Jean Brown and Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle peel back the layers of the largely unregulated, multi-billion dollar self-help industry, discussing the patterns of exploitation and deception that pervade the industry and allow self-help gurus to thrive at the expense of their customers and followers. Along the way we’ll have discussions with people who care as much as we do about the self-help industry being held accountable for the promises it makes–and we lay out our vision of a world in which seekers are respected and protected.
Episode Artwork

Discovering the Dysfunction in Self-help

In this episode, Dr. Doyle and Jean return to the underlying discussion of the self-help industry and the flaws within it that drive SEEK Safely’s mission. It was after Kirby Brown’s death at the 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat that the Brown family discovered some of the rot at the core of this multi-billion dollar industry. This drove the family to found SEEK Safely, recognizing that the impulse to seek is not the issue—it’s the unethical, unregulated self-help providers that are the issue and the source of potential harm. Empowering and protecting seekers has always been, and remains, SEEK’s ultimate goal.Show Notes: To Read: Positive Imaging by Norman Vincent PealeTragedy in Sedona by Connie JoyCult Education Institute, website of Rick Alan Ross Stanley Milgram Authority experimentsTo Watch: School House Rock: How a Bill Becomes a LawLearn more about SEEK Safely on our websiteFollow SEEK on Instagram, Twitter, and FacebookFollow Dr. Glenn on Instagram, Twitter, and FacebookRead the memoir “This Sweet Life: how we lived after Kirby died” by Jean and her mom, Ginny BrownDonate to support SEEK’s missionTo Contact SEEK email [email protected]
10/21/202457 minutes, 48 seconds