Podcast · Business
by Allison Hare · English · Business
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 cul
8 Oct 2026 · 49 min
Political consultant Michelle Coyle breaks down why negative ads actually work, where campaign money really goes, and what nobody admits about corruption until the mic is off. Seven weeks from the midterms, this is the conversation everyone posting about politics needs to hear.
E311 · 1 Oct 2026 · 1 hr
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.
E310 · 24 Sep 2026 · 57 min
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 fellow Christians, and became the first single woman ever partnered with Oxford's Saïd Business…
E309 · 17 Sep 2026 · 59 min
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 finally changed the locks on him, and a moment where Matt and I go head to head over what actually…
E308 · 10 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
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 in trad wife culture too. This is a harrowing story whose theological foundations permeate…
E307 · 3 Sep 2026 · 48 min
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, occasionally unhinged hour that somehow keeps landing on self-belief.
E306 · 27 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
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 promise, you're going to be picking your jaw up off the floor. Fair warning, there's some rage in…
E305 · 20 Aug 2026 · 55 min
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 steam.
E304 · 13 Aug 2026 · 53 min
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.
E303 · 6 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
My dad passed away last week at 97. Nine years earlier, dementia had already taken his ability to tell us his own story. But in 2012, almost by accident, I recorded an hour-long interview with him using a handheld recorder I used to run for a music blog. I found that tape again the week he died. Milad Rizk was born in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1928, survived World War Two as a kid, and immigrated to the United States at 29 with a Lebanese passport and no money. He spent his career as an international auditor across Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Chicago, Paris and New York, raised six kids across two…
E302 · 25 Jun 2026 · 51 min
Two DCC-obsessed feminists break down America's Sweethearts Season 3 on Netflix. Reece's early retirement and the trad wife speculation, Faith's breakout season (and the ponytail drama), Kelli Finglass's leadership genius, and the feminist paradox of loving a show this problematic. Plus we know who's coming back for next season - maybe.
E301 · 18 Jun 2026 · 42 min
Kevin Calhoun: Black, gay, doctorate, DEI insider at major corporations. He watched diversity programs get built and then dismantled. Now there's a new kind of Jim Crow The racism in the post-meeting meeting. Here's what you can do about it.
E300 · 11 Jun 2026 · 24 min
On episode 300, Allison shares the solo episode she recorded right after her mother's death — about the matriarchy, hypermasculine burnout, and what it means to finally be enough.
E299 · 4 Jun 2026 · 49 min
Behind the mic with Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley of The Commercial Break, the comedy podcast ranked #1 in improv on Spotify and Apple with 1,000+ episodes and 50 million downloads. They were in my very first podcast cohort in 2019. This is their origin story and how they made it grow and last.
E298 · 28 May 2026 · 57 min
Are we done with the guru era? We went from prophet to profit.. Dr. Liz Bucar — religious ethicist, Northeastern professor, and author of Beyond Wellness — joins Allison to talk Jay Shetty, Deepak Chopra, disordered eating rooted in bad theology, doing ayahuasca in an Oregon yurt for research, and why dying well might be the most important wellness conversation nobody is having. EP298.
E297 · 21 May 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
She was ex-Mormon, ex-MAGA, ex-tradwife — and it took a group of lesbians to crack 44 years of iron-clad indoctrination. Jennie Gage of Life Take Two joins Allison to talk cult psychology, the Erica Kirk threat, and what happens to your identity when everything you believed turns out to be a lie.
14 May 2026 · 2 min
Culture Changers Podcast turns 7 today!!!! And I have a big fat THANK YOU in the form of doing something insane.
E296 · 7 May 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
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.
E295 · 30 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Has Biohacking Made Us Lonely? Chris Schembra returns for his fourth appearance on Culture Changers to tackle the paradox at the heart of modern life: we've never had more access, more tracking, more optimization—yet we're the loneliest society that has ever existed. We've biohacked our way into a corner. Oura rings, trackers, endless social media connections. We're fitter, more quantified, more efficient. And yet suicide rates have never been higher. Chris breaks down why true fulfillment doesn't come from adding more optimization—it comes from adding friction back. We explore earned…
E294 · 23 Apr 2026 · 58 min
We celebrate female empowerment until women actually achieve it. Then we destroy them. This episode asks: where's the line? When do we go from beloved to canceled? Mel Robbins, Glennon Doyle, Brene Brown, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon. And what happens when we redirect all that energy toward actual change instead of tearing down the women who made it.
E293 · 16 Apr 2026 · 54 min
The psychology of political polarization, explained. NYU neuroscientist Dr. Jay Van Bavel on tribalism, motivated reasoning, and why we can't agree on anything anymore. But there is a way to make it better!
E292 · 2 Apr 2026 · 44 min
Something supernatural happened. I did a psilocybin (magic mushroom) ceremony and a week later, I'm still processing. This episode is a report back on what the medicine showed me, what a psychic medium told me the week before, and why the phrase "it's safe for me to be seen" kept coming up again and again. I'm talking plant medicine, body trauma, perimenopause, and the difference between being visible and being known. Plus a cautionary tale about ethics in psychedelic facilitation. It's personal. It's weird. I'm glad you're here to share it with.
E291 · 26 Mar 2026 · 46 min
Women are disappearing. Demi Moore, Kelly Osbourne, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo — awards season 2026 looked like the '90s called and asked for their bodies back. And this time, there's a pill for it. I dig into what the GLP-1 explosion is actually doing to women — not just physically, but culturally and politically. Because the pressure to shrink has never just been about aesthetics. I also get personal about my own history with disordered eating and body dysmorphia, and what it means that I'm on a GLP-1 myself. No clean answers. Just an honest, fiery conversation we need to be having.
E290 · 19 Mar 2026 · 52 min
Jamie Maglietta spent years producing live news at CNN, BET, and Fox News before founding OnCam Ready — and she's here to tell you why most founders are spending their time and energy on the wrong platforms. From the "dipping to black" framework to the 4 content pillars that keep your brand coherent, this episode is a masterclass in visibility strategy for the thought leader who's ready to stop being the best-kept secret.
E289 · 12 Mar 2026 · 43 min
Allison breaks down why The Pitt — HBO's real-time ER drama set in Pittsburgh — might be the most culturally important show on television right now, exploring collective grief, the danger of assumptions, and our shared hunger to see people overcome impossible situations. It's competence p*rn!
E288 · 5 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
Tia Levings, NYT bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife and upcoming book I Belong To Me, joins Allison to decode how Christian fundamentalism and patriarchy have been hiding in plain sight — and how they're now shaping our politics, our bodies, and our daily lives. This is the episode that went viral for a reason, and it's more urgent now than ever.
E287 · 26 Feb 2026 · 49 min
Megachurch culture, evangelical influencers, and culty performative faith? Oh my! (Oh yes!). Allii Hoff Kosik's debut novel Too Blessed To Stress is digging deep into all the juicy inner-workings of it all.
E283 · 19 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
Move over, Karens. Meet the Katies! Apolitical influencers are 3x more persuasive than political ones. Liz Minnella explains how social media shapes elections.
E285 · 12 Feb 2026 · 45 min
Women are paying thousands of dollars a year just to look “professional” at work. But "professional" requires hair, makeup, nails, skincare, wardrobe, age-defying procedures, etc. Men are (obviously) not. In this episode, I make the case that women’s beauty bills are not just for vanity, but infrastructure to stay relevant and get ahead. And if employers benefit from it, it belongs on payroll.
E284 · 5 Feb 2026 · 51 min
Can journalism survive this moment? Can we survive this moment? Brooke Baldwin on leaving CNN, trust, power, and finding your voice when everything feels unstable. Listen now.
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 cul
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