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Hosted by Dr. Steve Hassan · society · EN · 256 episodes
Steven Hassan, PhD, is one of the leading experts on cults and undue influence in the world. A former member of the right-wing Moonie cult, Hassan was deprogrammed 45 years ago and has dedicated his life to helping people out of cults and destructive situations. Dr. Hassan is a licensed mental health professional and has written four books, including The Cult of Trump and the seminal book Combating Cult Mind Control . On this podcast, Steve will explain HOW mind-control works, and how to protect yourself from its grips. He will also address ethical influence as the podcast will address the entire Influence Continuum. He’ll interview the biggest names in this field.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSteven Hassan, PhD, is one of the leading experts on cults and undue influence in the world. A former member of the right-wing Moonie cult, Hassan was deprogrammed 45 years ago and has dedicated his life to helping people out of cults and destructive situations. Dr.
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan is hosted by Dr. Steve Hassan. The show has published 256 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Hoodwinked: My Conversation with Dr. Mara Einstein About Marketing and Cult Influence - How marketers turn anxiety and belonging into profit, and how we can protect our freedom of mind." (26 October 2026, 69 minutes), "Kate Cohen on Belief and the Freedom to Think for Ourselves: An honest conversation about atheism, Jewish identity, authoritarianism, and making a meaningful life" (19 October 2026, 63 minutes), and "Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, Crypto and Cult Psychology with Ben McKenzie: My conversation with the author of Easy Money about financial manipulation, the need to belong, and protecting our freedom of mind." (12 October 2026, 57 minutes).
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 64 minutes across 256 episodes.
Booking probability for Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dr. Steve Hassan hosts Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan, a society show with 256 episodes published.
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Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Mara teaches at Queens College, the very place where I was recruited into the Moonies cult in 1974. She came to the study of influence through advertising and media. I came to it through my experience in a destructive...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
What happens when you tell people what you actually believe? Kate Cohen discovered that the answer can be much less frightening, and much more interesting, than you expect. For years, she participated in religious life...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
When someone promises you financial freedom, it is worth asking how much freedom you have to question what they are selling. Can you challenge their claims? Can you consult independent experts? Can you change your mind...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
These days there are too many people on social media proclaiming Trump has dementia when she says that all the facts are not available. Dr. Odenheimer is a geriatric neurologist and professor emeritus at the University...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Austrian filmmaker Friedrich “Fritz” Moser discusses his documentary, How to Build a Truth Engine. The film brings together investigative journalism, computer science, and neuroscience to examine our susceptibility to...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
You want to help your family. Someone you trust offers an opportunity to earn extra income, work from home, and become financially independent. They introduce you to enthusiastic people who seem to share your values...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Human beings want to make sense of chaos. We want explanations, patterns, and some sense that we know what is coming next. However, wanting an explanation does not necessarily mean wanting what is true and factual. That...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Social identity, or how the portion of our identity we derive from participating in our social groups can expand our mind or limit our ability to embrace complexity and nuance. Why should this matter to someone who has...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Carlos Castaneda sold more than 10 million books to readers who thought they were buying anthropology. Real fieldwork. A real Yaqui shaman named Don Juan, teaching a real Westerner how to see. None of it happened...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
A family court judge can reach into your family, single you out by name, and rearrange your life by dinnertime: where your child sleeps tonight, whether you're allowed to see them, whether you're even permitted to raise...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Ingo Michehl spent six and a half years as one of the Moonies' most productive fundraisers, selling laser-etched foil pictures out of a Ford Transit van at a twenty-fold markup, sleeping five hours a night, and...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Shincheonji recruits through what looks like an ordinary Bible study, and most people who walk through the door have no idea that it is a destructive cult. Chris Vishoot found out only after three and a half years as a...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Anthony Forte spent more than ten years inside the World Mission Society Church of God, rising from a new recruit stopped on a Queens, NY, sidewalk to a leader who trained others to recruit the way he had been...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
A person on the autism spectrum leaves a file-sharing program running overnight because they want cartoons or anime. By morning, thousands of images have downloaded onto their hard drive, some of them child sexual abuse...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
The First Amendment gives you an absolute right to believe whatever you want. It has never given you the right to act on those beliefs in ways that harm others. That distinction, simple as it sounds, is the one that the...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
A wellness MLM does not announce itself as a cult. It arrives as a smoothie recipe, a flyer of smiling mothers, and a promise of working from home while you take your health back. My recent guest on Cults, Culture...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
I have been saying for years that cryptocurrency has the structure of a multi-level marketing scheme: a small number of people at the top make enormous sums, while large numbers of ordinary people are recruited to...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
When Lara Kaput was eight years old, she was required to clean bricks on Jehovah’s Witness building sites. She helped her father road-build on the church construction projects. She did cleaning, and gardening, and her...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Russian disinformation no longer feels like a foreign problem you read about in long articles. It shapes what you see when you open your phone, what your relatives believe about a war they have never visited, and what...
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Detransitioning, a term for stopping, shifting, or reversing an initial gender transition, is a word that has been stripped of its human meaning by the political forces fighting over it. Last week, I shared my interview...
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