Honestly Unorthodox

This episode explores how poor diet, lifestyle habits, and unclear communication in modern workplaces affect cognitive functioning and behavior, suggesting these issues might be training failures rather than motivation problems.

A professional recounts a challenging case involving a violent teenager with enabling parents and unsupportive workplace leadership, highlighting the importance of setting boundaries and maintaining standards.

The host shares her experience of being fired from a school consulting job, receiving multiple offers including a lucrative autism clinic opportunity, and ultimately deciding to start a home service business for seniors instead.

This episode introduces a skill bubble exercise to help listeners identify their diverse abilities beyond formal education and explore faster ways to monetize them.

This episode explains that leverage, not hard work, is key to career advancement and offers practical strategies for building it through communication and self-reflection.

The host shares a personal anecdote from working in a psychiatric ward to critique the inefficiencies and absurdities in behavioral healthcare billing and practices.

This episode critically examines the widespread belief that therapy is universally beneficial, questioning how people define what 'works' and drawing parallels to placebo effects in other areas like diets and superstitions.

This episode explores how cultural norms evolve, using Britney Spears and Madonna's 2003 MTV VMA kiss as an example to argue that today's activists rely on violating social norms for attention while paradoxically needing those norms to maintain their identity.