Best Relational Psych Podcasts (2025)

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The Ripple Effects Of What You Teach Others w/ Seth Godin 1:16:52

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“I would like to be measured by what the people who learned from me taught other people.” This is what my guest said, and I’ve never forgotten it. Seth Godin is one of the premier voices of business in our generation, and he was one of my first guests when I was host of The Ziglar Show, and this was the second time I had him on a show. Seth is well…

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Personality Collapse: How Absent Fathers Sabotage the Soul 17:08

7h ago17:08

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Send us a text What if your inability to hold boundaries isn’t a flaw—but a legacy? In this blistering PrecisionCycle episode, Enrique takes you into the heart of psychic adolescence, emotional volatility, and the fatherless gap that defines a generation. This isn’t psychoanalysis for tourists. This is a field manual for men raised by ghosts—father…

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Erectile Dysfunction Is Not a Malfunction—It’s a Message 15:33

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Send us a text If your doctor says the plumbing works but you still can’t stay hard, it’s time to stop blaming your body—and start listening to it. This episode isn’t just about ED. It’s about dissociation, shame, and the silent ways your nervous system speaks when your mind won’t. Enrique breaks down the psychodynamic truth about erectile dysfunct…

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The C.I.A. Model To Get Us To Move w/ Former Operative Michele Rigby Assad 1:21:39

4d ago1:21:39

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Would you like to be better at getting yourself to move? When you have an overall desire, but find yourself struggling to take the first step and just get going? I think we all do in certain areas of our lives and from what I experience it is getting worse. So I’ve brought on an expert and we’re going to exaggerate the point to help us better conce…

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The Mixdown of the Mind: Grunge Producers as Therapists of the 90s Psyche 28:23

4d ago28:23

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Send us a text In this episode of PrecisionCycle, Enrique peels back the distortion and dives straight into the psyche of the 1990s—through the lens of the men behind the console. What if grunge producers weren’t just making records... they were guiding entire generations through therapeutic landscapes? We break down the big six: Butch Vig as Winni…

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How To Have A Fit Spirit w/ Kate Eckman 1:22:09

7d ago1:22:09

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Notice I said “spirit” and not “spirituality.” To me they overlap, but this is not a faith based message. Our focus is, your spirit, which I think of like your energy and your “vibe” if you will. Thinking on spirituality, I grew up in a religious construct where many people who were devoted to their spirituality, had very poor and lacking spirits, …

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I’m on Warm Milk and Laxatives / Cherry-Flavored Antacids: How Modern Mental Health Keeps You Trapped in Pathology 32:47

6d ago32:47

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Send us a text In this scorched-earth episode of PrecisionCycle, Enrique pulls no punches as he recounts a recent therapy session that left him confronting the hollow mechanics of modern mental health. What begins as a casual drink with a licensed clinician morphs into a sharp critique of the therapy industrial complex, the illusion of clinical “sp…

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Episode 8: The Cost of Humanitarian Intervention 43:12

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When the Cold War ended, many imagined a more peaceful world. Yet the 1990s were marked by humanitarian crises in Somalia, Rwanda, and former Yugoslavia. Images of mass atrocities and genocide reached wide audiences on newly available 24/7 TV news channels, as humanitarians increasingly advocated for military intervention. The United States under B…

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Recognize The Victim Identity Of Our Culture & How To Overcome It In Yourself w/ Columbia Psych Professor Scott Barry Kaufman 1:03:53

10d ago1:03:53

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When COVID hit we all wore masks, so as not to infect each other or get infected. I and many others perceive that a more dangerous virus is among us, and it’s a victim mindset, which results in a victim identity. So how can we protect ourselves? My guest is Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., a cognitive psychologist who is among the top one percent most c…

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Memorial Day Standup: Why Therapy’s Broken and Boundaries Are the Answer 11:17

8d ago11:17

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Send us a text On this special Memorial Day edition of PrecisionCycle by elevate.epo, Enrique records straight from the Pasadena office with a message that’s part tribute, part takedown. He honors those who gave everything for this country—and then pivots into what we’re getting wrong about mental health, therapy, and the culture of emotional depen…

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The Mother Within: Grief, Chaos, and the Path to Secure Belonging (Mackenzie Amara) 1:29:28

8d ago1:29:28

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In this episode, I sit down with Mackenzie Amara for a rich and reverent conversation about the mother wound—how it lives in our bodies, our culture, and our ancestral lines. We explore grief as a spiritual excavator, the path to existential secure attachment, and what it means to surrender to love even when loss is inevitable. Mackenzie brings the…

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Built Different: Why Boundaries, Not Therapy, Are the True Antidote to Narcissism, Perimenopause, and Emotional Collapse 27:27

11d ago27:27

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Send us a text This special Friday episode of PrecisionCycle is not for the faint-hearted. Enrique delivers a raw, grounded, and methodically explosive breakdown of why boundaries—not therapy—are the only reliable defense against narcissism, perimenopause-driven emotional collapse, and modern culture's disintegration of masculine structure. After a…

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How Your Work Contributes To A Meaningful Life w/ Career Guru Dan Miller 1:07:51

14d ago1:07:51

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What began as a discussion on whether our work must really be so important ultimately came to our need to know ourselves and what really fulfills us individually. And while yes, having meaningful work is profound to the joy of our lives, it’s also not meant to be the end all to our purpose and calling, but a tool. For this conversation I brought on…

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Boundary Culture: What the Dutch Teach Us About Recalibration, Containment, and Respect 32:48

13d ago32:48

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Send us a text After Monday’s episode on Nancy McWilliams and perimenopause, I got a flood of messages—mostly asking the same thing: What does actual support look like? This episode answers that. But not with affirmations or coping strategies. With boundaries. We break down how modern therapy fails at structural support, how clinicians often confus…

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Not Being Limited By The Harsh Realities Of Our Lives w/ Karena Kilcoyne 1:41:55

17d ago1:41:55

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I’ve given focus to how we perceive our stories. We’ve also looked at toxic positivity and the damage of just trying to paint a pretty picture. We all encounter circumstances and events in our lives that challenge us. From massive traumas and tragedies to just disheartening disappointments. They all matter in regards to how we go forward in life. F…

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Perimenopause as Personality Collapse: A Psychoanalytic Deep Dive with McWilliams 24:05

16d ago24:05

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Send us a text Most people treat perimenopause like it's just hot flashes and hormones. But through the lens of Nancy McWilliams’ psychoanalytic theory, we see something far more structural: a full-blown stress test of personality. In this episode, Enrique, Ash, and Danni unpack how borderline, narcissistic, depressive, obsessive, and masochistic p…

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The Night Jane Broke the Frame: Borderline Collapse and the Origins of elevate.epo 24:59

19d ago24:59

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Send us a text It started as an after-work drink—until it became a clinical rupture. In this raw, field-based episode, Enrique walks us through the night “Jane” spiraled into a live narcissistic attack—weaponizing sex, triangulation, and emotional chaos to annihilate the containment that threatened her false self. But this isn’t gossip. It’s data. …

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The Lost Art Of Actually Asking For Personal Guidance & Help w/ Mark & Crystal Hansen 1:08:12

21d ago1:08:12

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A book landed on my desk a few years ago called, Ask - The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny. And lo and behold the author was Mark Victor Hanson and his wife Crystal. Mark is cited as one of the bestselling authors of all-time, as he is credited along with Jack Canfield for the entire Chicken Soup For The Soul franchise which has sold over h…

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Tennis Court: Why You're Playing a Borderline Personality Game You Never Signed Up For 29:22

20d ago29:22

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Send us a text You didn’t choose this match—but you’re in it. In this episode, Enrique breaks down how Peter Fonagy’s groundbreaking model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) explains the emotional chaos many people experience daily—without ever getting diagnosed. From the collapse of mentalization to Lateral Plate Theory, we explore how shame…

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Cap’n Crunch with Water: Fonagy, Kendrick, and the Collapse of Pretend Theory 20:09

23d ago20:09

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Send us a text What do a British psychoanalyst, a Pulitzer-winning rapper, and a soggy bowl of Cap’n Crunch have in common? Everything—if you’ve lived it. In this episode, Enrique breaks down Peter Fonagy’s 2003 psychoanalytic manifesto on theory vs. practice and connects it to Kendrick Lamar’s raw sermon from wacced out murals. The message from bo…

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The Human Style For Your Most Effectiveness, Efficiency & Energy w/ Erin Claire Jones 1:35:18

25d ago1:35:18

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Most everyone is aware of their personality style. You’ve likely taken one or five personality tests and quizzes where you answer a bunch of questions about yourself. What are your propensities and predispositions? I appreciate them all and have found some value from each in helping me understand and get some insight into myself. Yet I’ve also stru…

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Metabolizing Truth: From Dissociation to Sensual Aliveness (Marisa Radha Weppner) 59:54

22d ago59:54

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In this conversation, Radha and Rachael explore the themes of transformation, self-awareness, and the importance of personal responsibility in navigating both individual and collective challenges. They discuss the role of relationships in self-discovery, the significance of open-mindedness, and the impact of the nervous system on our ability to fee…

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The Scaffolding of Return: How Your Trash Squat Is a Sign of a Fatherless Nervous System 21:26

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Send us a text Your back hurts. Your knees ache. You can’t squat 225 or pull 315 without breaking form—and it’s not because you skipped leg day. It’s because your dad never taught you how to hold tension. In this finale to Daddy Issues Week, Enrique unpacks how physical dysfunction, nervous system dysregulation, and emotional collapse all stem from…

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From Being Bullied To Being A Bully To Imprisonment To Legendary Men's Leader w/ Tommy Breedlove 1:16:06

28d ago1:16:06

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I feel most of us are looking for a bit of new knowledge, something to help us improve our results. Kind of like weight loss and you just want to drop 5 or 10 pounds. So you make some little shifts and changes. Then you have someone like a friend of mine who went from morbidly obese to losing well over 100 pounds. Such a life change. This is a stor…

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The Gambler: Daddy Issues in the Age of DraftKings 25:56

29d ago25:56

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Send us a text What do you get when you raise a boy in a house full of books, Nobel prizes, and emotional abandonment? You get Dave—a startup founder turned gambling mule, now flying to Texas to place $40K bets for a man who doesn’t make eye contact. But this isn’t a story about addiction. It’s a case study in the collapse of fatherhood, the pathol…

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Episode 7: America's China Gamble 41:25

28d ago41:25

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China’s violent Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 marked a turning point in US-China relations. After two decades of slowly but steadily nurturing friendly relations, the United States would choose to develop economic ties without insisting on democratic reforms. The prevailing hope was that China’s economic growth would inevitably lead to politic…

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Challenging Theories of Consciousness: Breaking the Loop 19:02

1M ago19:02

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Send us a text In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique kicks off “Daddy Issues Week” by sharing the powerful story of Jane, his first private client — a woman shaped by a father who couldn’t protect her. We connect her struggles to new science on consciousness, exploring two big brain theories and what they tell us about how we see the world. Enriq…

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Can You Really Change Your Personality? Do You Really Even Want To? w/ Olga Khazan 1:29:02

1M ago1:29:02

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I grew up in the world of self-improvement when personality profiles became popular. The idea then was you had a core personality style and it was pretty solid, like your hair color. Culturally we like to label people’s personalities, “She’s a classic type A personality,” and “Oh, he’s super introverted.” In regards to changing one’s personality, I…

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Dan's Test: How PrecisionCycle Fixed a Broken Heart 21:37

1M ago21:37

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Send us a text In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique shares the story of Dan, a client working through the pain of a broken heart after a tough relationship at work. Using the PrecisionCycle method, Dan learned how to heal, grow, and show up as his best self—on and off the field. We talk about heartbreak, emotional strength, and why in life, ever…

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How To Have A Compelling & Relatable Online Personality w/ Erica Dhawan 1:03:28

1M ago1:03:28

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I find that when we communicate with others, in any way, we are either helping or hurting our relationship with them. Yet every day, more and more of our communication is digital. I cut my relationship teeth as a kid on Dale Carnegie’s book, “How To Win Friends and Influence People.” But this assumed we were face to face. How do we win friends and …

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When the House Burns Down: On Integration & the Relational Psyche (Dr. Ido Cohen) 1:23:47

1M ago1:23:47

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Season 5 opens with one of the most compelling minds in the field of psychedelic integration: Dr. Ido Cohen—clinical psychologist, founder of The Integration Circle, and someone who brings rare clarity, warmth, and rigour to the transformational path. In this conversation, Rachael and Ido trace the arc from personal rupture to collective insight—be…

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The Berkeley Shark: Recalibrating the Field with PrecisionCycle 32:32

1M ago32:32

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Send us a text What if the problem isn’t that you’re misunderstood—but that you’re miscalibrated to an underdeveloped field? In this episode, Enrique introduces PrecisionCycle, elevate.epo’s groundbreaking diagnostic system for tracking real psychological transformation—not in years, but in days. Through the one-month case of Danni, a single parent…

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Field Week: How Reverse Causality Destroys Relationships 29:53

1M ago29:53

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Send us a text In this Field Week kickoff, Enrique from elevate.epo breaks down one of the most overlooked yet devastating dynamics in modern relationships: Reverse Causality. Rooted in primitive psychological defenses, reverse causality occurs when someone injures the relational field — and then blames you for reacting. Pulling from real-world cli…

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The Science Around - Can I Succeed? Do I Belong? Am I Loved? w/ Stanford Psych Professor Dr. Gregory Walton 1:12:03

1M ago1:12:03

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Listen to those three questions again - Can I Succeed? Do I Belong? Am I Loved? I’m tempted to feel those questions address the root issue of every human on earth. As I continue to research personal identity and how we as a culture seem to be more fragile and threatened than ever, I feel these questions are primary. So I had a conversation with Dr …

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The Escape from Sedation: How Real Clinical Work Threatens Broken Systems in Eating Disorder Treatment 28:14

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Send us a text When a borderline patient at an eating disorder residential spiraled into distorted thinking, Enrique used Lacanian principles to recalibrate her reality—in real time. Instead of being celebrated, the intervention was rejected by leadership desperate to maintain the illusion of healing. In this week's Friday Address, Enrique exposes …

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How To Have A Podcast People Listen To & If You Should Even Have One | w/ Jordan Harbinger 1:08:32

1M ago1:08:32

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We are at a time when anyone with a message is pushing to have a book and a podcast. I have been in the podcast game a long time and things have changed a lot. But the question of what makes a good podcast and if you should even have one, hasn’t changed. So I’m bringing back a discussion I had a few years ago with Jordan Harbinger. Jordan has an in…

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Sudan and the Limits of Western Peacebuilding (from the archive) 26:33

1M ago26:33

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Sudan’s civil war recently entered its third year. It has claimed the lives of around 150,000 people and displaced around 13 million. In this archival episode, we revisit the outbreak of violence that erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Army, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, led by…

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Two Energies: The Survival Fields of Restrictors and Binge-Purgers 13:37

1M ago13:37

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Send us a text Not all eating disorders are the same — not just clinically, but energetically. In this episode, Enrique breaks open the hidden divide inside the EDO world: Restrictors and Binge-Purgers. These aren't just diagnostic categories. They are distinct survival strategies with completely different emotional fields. From the quiet collapse …

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