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Culture Changers with Allison Hare

Culture Changers is where we pour gasoline on fiery topics like power, politics, religion, and relationships (thoughtfully) and find a better way through. I"ve interviewed people like Seth Godin, Mariel Hemingway, and Jesse Itzler among other notable world-changers. And of course, we are talking cults, trad wives, microtrends, money, faith, and what it actually means to be human right now. Listen, it"s time to get up and do something. We"ve got a world to change!

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00:59:53

Death of the Pastor's Wife: What Really Happened to...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/10/01

Mica Miller told her friends that if she died by suicide, it wasn't her. It was JP. Netflix gave Death of the Pastor's Wife three episodes, and my repeat guest Jennie Gage watched her own marriage play out on screen. She spent 24 years as the wife of a Mormon church leader, survived her own suicide attempt, and has a theory about what really happened to Mica. This one is harrowing. Trigger warnings on this one: suicide, abuse, and religious coercion. If you're struggling, call or text 988

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00:56:45

She sang at Trump's Inauguration, then Left the...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/09/24

Julianna Glasse was a chart topping Christian pop star who sang at Donald Trump's 2017 National Prayer Breakfast and taught tens of thousands of women that their closeness to God ran straight through their husbands. Then her husband found the books she was hiding, threw one on the floor, and told her "this is what happens when you read." She turned his sentence into the title of her new book, lost her marriage, her tours, and her book deal, survived death threats and sexual violence threats from

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00:58:40

Rich and Addicted: Matt Grace and what saved him

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/09/17

Matt Grace grew up with a chef, a housekeeper, and a father who paid for his first prostitute, and by 29 he'd spent a hundred and fifty thousand dollars on sex workers and burned through every drug you can name. Matt spent his career as an interventionist for some of the wealthiest addicts in the country and just released his book, God Doesn't Relapse. We get into the therapist who diagnosed him with an Oedipus complex at nine, the house that became the neighborhood's drug den, the mother who

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01:09:30

Death of the Pastor's Wife: What Netflix Left Out

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/09/10

JP Miller preached a full sermon less than 24 hours after his wife died - allegedly by suicide - without taking a single question about it. Netflix gave "Death of the Pastor's Wife" three episodes but still left out a lot: the earlier conviction, the first wife whose stories echoed Mica's experience, the third wife already leading worship beside him. I watched the whole thing, went deep into the rabbit hole - and am reporting back here as I noticed some notable patterns that are showing up right now

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00:47:57

Healing is Hilarious: Pop culture and comedians with...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/09/03

Are you as obsessed as I am with the dumbest headlines of the week? Well, you're in luck! I've got comedian and pop culture whisperer Rachel LaForce on to break down what Spencer Pratt's mayoral run, the $250 Trump bill, and trad wife content filmed at Home Goods actually say about the rest of us. Rachel got sober by accident, spent decades masking her neurodivergence, and built her whole show around one idea: comedy gets you to the truth faster than seriousness does. This is a fast, sharp,

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01:00:57

The Ambition Penalty with Stefanie O'Connell

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/08/27

I grew up thinking if I did everything right, negotiated hard enough, leaned in enough, the outcome would eventually match the effort. Y'all, that was a big old fat lie. Stefanie O'Connell spent years digging into the research for her new book, The Ambition Penalty, and the data is downright shocking. We get into girlboss culture and tradwife culture, and why they're actually selling the same lie in different outfits. We talk about what happens to women who out earn their male partners, and I

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00:54:30

Gen X, there's a new Lilith Fair rising

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/08/20

The women who built Lilith Fair were called "angry," "hysterical," "emotional," and dismissed as "a bunch of lesbians" back in the 90s. Turns out Sarah McLachlan and her all-female lineup were way ahead of their time, running the highest grossing tour of 1997. Now the concept is back, and leading the charge is Olivia Rodrigo, using her platform to advocate for women's rights. This is a fun, fascinating, and timely look at how right those women were, and why the fight just picked up way more

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00:52:46

Fascinating lies behind our favorite ads

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/08/13

Are you as obsessed as I am about how we are being manipulated by social media, ads, propaganda, politics, and what's real and what's not? Well, you're in luck! I've got ad sleuth Emily Rask from the hit show Lies We Bought podcast on to break it down for us! This is a fun and fascinating exploration into the sinister truth of advertising.Notable timestamps: 03:05 What Lies We Bought actually is 10:29 The Kellogg brothers and the breakfast myth 11:38 Listerine invented a disease called

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01:05:00

I Found My Dad's Lost Story

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/08/06

My father died last week. He was 97. What a gangster, making it that far.Milad Rizk survived World War Two as a kid in Lebanon, immigrated to America with nothing but a Lebanese passport and a plan, raised six kids across two marriages, and spent his whole career as an auditor jumping from Iraq to Saudi Arabia to Chicago to New York. He had dementia for the last several years of his life. Toward the end he couldn't really talk to us anymore. Then I remembered something. Fifteen years ago, before I

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00:51:10

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders Season 3: We can't stop!...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/06/25

As a woman who deeply cares about women's rights, I am obsessed with a show that is totally problematic. America's Sweethearts Season 3 just dropped on Netflix. I grabbed fellow DCC-obsessed Mara Davis, an Atlanta radio legend who has been watching the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders since the 1970s, sat through all 17 seasons on CMT, and has opinions about every single cheerleader, judge, and PR move in that building. We get into Reece's early retirement and the trad wife speculation swirling on Reddit,

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00:42:21

DEI Is Gone. Now What? With HR Insider Kevin Calhoun

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/06/18

Kevin Calhoun spent years doing HR and DEI work from inside some of the biggest corporations in the world. He watched those programs get built. Then he watched them get dismantled — and found himself displaced in the process. In this conversation, recorded in honor of Juneteenth, Kevin introduces the concept of James Crow: Jim Crow's more dangerous, more invisible cousin. The one with a hiring algorithm instead of a shotgun.Notable Timestamps (verify against final audio before publishing) 03:03 —

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00:23:44

The Matriarchy

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/06/11

My mother died on June 11th, five years ago. This is the episode I recorded right after she passed. It's episode 300, and it's dedicated to her.What I didn't expect was what her last six months would teach me. About the matriarchy. About worthiness. About the hypermasculine drive that so many of us — myself very much included — run on until we can't anymore. And about what happens when you finally let yourself receive love instead of earn it. If you still have your mother here, you will want to

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00:49:23

Inside a hit comedy podcast with The Commercial Break

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/06/04

Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley of The Commercial Break built a #1 comedy podcast with over 50 million downloads and absolutely no plan. Over a thousand episodes in, they're finally spilling the behind-the-scenes. What makes a show last? What's the actual creative process? And who on earth is Frankie B? Fun fact, Bryan was in my very first podcast launch cohort in 2019 which is how this show began.What listeners will take away: The mindset shift that separates podcasters who last from the ones who

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00:56:32

The Guru Era is Dead. What comes next? with Dr. Liz...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/05/28

How did we go from prophet to profit with Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Deepak Chopra... one by one, the curtain got lifted? And we're left asking: who do we actually trust? Religious ethicist Dr. Liz Bucar has spent 25 years studying exactly that question. Her answers will surprise you.What you'll learn in this episode: Why the guru era is collapsing and what a good teacher actually looks like versus a predatory one The hidden Orientalism behind Deepak Chopra and Jay Shetty's appeal — and the latent

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01:08:36

Ex-Mormon, Ex-MAGA, Ex-Tradwife: How Lesbians Broke...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/05/21

She burned her Bible in the backyard. But that came years after leaving a marriage she was pressured into at 19, going homeless, losing her faith, and waking up from a coma. Jennie Gage has lived several lifetimes inside one — and she's using all of it to fight back.What you'll get from this conversation: How Mormon indoctrination works and why it's different from "just going to church on Sundays" What "a man is not a plan" really means and how Jennie learned it the hard way The tradwife

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00:01:43

Culture Changers Turns 7 TODAY! Big announcement

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/05/14

Culture Changers Podcast is 7 TODAY!Award-winning. Globally ranked (top 1.5%) Almost 300 episodes and a million downloads. And to celebrate, I'm doing a ridiculous marathon livestream starting today at 1pm EST. And I might even go for SEVEN HOURS! Join me LIVE (please comment and say hi - surprise guests, surprise announcements, spice level 1000. YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Instagram Definitely NOT Twitter/X 👎🏼). I can't thank you enough for being part of this global

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01:03:49

Healing from Religious Trauma, Silence Culture, and...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/05/07

Learn what healing looks like after 40 years of identity collapse in Christian patriarchy. Tia Levings is a New York Times bestselling author, featured in Amazon's "Shiny Happy People," who escaped Christian fundamentalism, recovered from religious trauma, and now decodes why patriarchal family structures mirror the theocratic policies taking shape in American government right now.In this episode, Tia walks us through: The mechanics of silence culture and why it protects abusers How to identify

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01:11:37

Has biohacking made us lonely? with Chris Schembra

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2026/04/30

Have we biohacked our way to loneliness? We've over-optimized every aspect of our lives—Oura rings, trackers, endless connections on social media. We're fitter, more quantified, more tracked than ever. Yet we're the loneliest society that has ever existed. Suicide rates have never been higher. Somewhere along the way, we lost touch with each other and maybe even ourselves.Chris Schembra makes the case that true fulfillment doesn't lie in adding more optimization. It lies in adding friction back. In

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00:57:33

White Women Villains: Brené, Mel & the Wellness...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/04/23

We celebrate female empowerment while simultaneously destroying women who actually achieve it. This episode unpacks why we pile on female leaders—from Brené Brown to Mel Robbins to Gwyneth Paltrow—in ways we never do for men. Not to defend these women although some deserve critique. It's about understanding the line between legitimate critique and character assassination, and asking what happens when we redirect that energy toward systemic change instead of moral policing. Where is the line where

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00:54:04

Psychology Behind Political Polarization w/ Dr. Jay...

Culture Changers with Allison Hare ·

2026/04/16

You can watch two people look at the same video of the Minneapolis shooting and come to completely opposite conclusions about what happened. Why? Because their brains — literally — were looking at different parts of the screen. That's selective perception. And once Dr. Jay Van Bavel explained it to me, I couldn't stop seeing it everywhere. In my feed. In my family. In myself.Jay is one of the top 1% of researchers in the world — not my words, that's Clarivate — and a professor of psychology and

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