Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode, I share my conversation with Canadian political commentator and content creator, Liam DeBoer.

Liam creates high quality content featuring razor sharp commentary, analysis, and critiques of political and social issues, public policy, and corporate and government corruption in all of its manifestations.

Follow Liam online here:
IG @liam.out.loud
Twitter/X @liam_out_loud
YouTube @liam-out-loud

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Let's connect!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• Liam's work championing heroes, roasting villains, and trying to figure out what makes us one or the other

• How everything became hyper-politicized in the lead up to the 2016 election of Donald Trump

• My political awakening during the 2008/2009 global financial collapse

• How governments are the real enemy of the average person because they are utterly corrupt and controlled by corporations for the benefit of the rich and powerful, as well as special interest groups, rather than normal people

•  The reasons why the ever-increasing growth of government and consolidation of power is bad for society

• Regulatory capture and the revolving door between government and the corporations and industries they are supposed to regulate

• How governments use propaganda to manipulate their populations to believe certain narratives and act in ways that are beneficial to those in power rather than in their own interests

• Naive utopian idealism vs understanding human nature, the history of our species, and political and economic systems

• How the current far-left political activism in Western nations mirrors the cultural revolution in communist China, which led to the murder of millions of people

• How ideology is like a mind virus that parasitizes people and how it's actually the ideas that have people rather than people having the ideas

• How Marxism and Communism has shifted its ideology from primarily economic and class issues to critiques around identity politics

• The necessity of unplugging from the news, social media, and being online in order to take care of yourself

• How the powerful always go after the intellectuals and dissidents who try to warn everyone what's going on, what those in power are actually doing vs what they lead you to believe with their propaganda, and where it's headed

• Hope vs optimism

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Blendr News: YouTube, Substack, FB, IG

• CP Grey's Rules for Rulers

• Mattias Desmet's analyses of Mass Formation Psychosis and the psychology of totalitarianism

• Douglas Murray and Uncancelled History

• Psychologist Jordan Peterson

Books:
• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins
• The White Pill by Michael Malice
• The Parasitic Mind by Dr. Gad Saad
• Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
• Maps of Meaning by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Great movies about the global financial collapse:
• The Big Short
• Margin Call

• Comedian Andrew Shulz

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share my conversation with Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, aka, The Truthful Therapist.

Pamela has become well-known in recent years for pushing back against the claims of gender ideology and so-called "gender-affirming" medicine. In her work and advocacy to protect those struggling with gender dysphoria and distress, she leans into what the scientific evidence does and does not say. Pamela has been featured in multiple documentaries on the subject and has testified both for and against many bills across the US related to gender medicine.

Check out Pamela's website here, and her new book, A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families.

Follow Pamela online here:
IG @the.truthfultherapist
Twitter/X @truththerapist
YouTube @thetruthfultherapist
Substack

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Let's connect!

For more from Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin, follow me on Instagram:

@unapologeticli
@drcsboivin

Please reach out with feedback/comments, or questions and to let me know what you'd like to hear or learn more about!

And please give the podcast a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify as it helps others find the show and helps us find more listeners and supporters!

To support the show and my ability to bring more valuable conversations and insights, please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or by Buying Me a Coffee!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• Pamela's background and the issues in the counselling profession, particularly when it comes to gender ideology and the legislated demands to unquestioningly "affirm" a patient's new identity

• Activist claims about trans suicides vs reality

• Progressive politics on several topics, how people have good intentions, where they go wrong, and how it leads to bad/counterproductive policies

• Recent trainings Pamela's been to and how many people pushing progressive ideologies in her profession are afraid that their narratives are crumbling and the mounting pushback against them

•  How many of the challenges being positioned as unique to the trans community are, in fact, mostly normal human challenges many people struggle with, especially during puberty, trying to find/create your identity, and becoming an adult

• How there are many potential motivations influencing people to adopt a trans identity vs the simplistic narratives being pushed

• The multi-billion dollar industry interests pushing and financing this movement, and how progressive activists are unable or unwilling to acknowledge the complexity of these issues

• The social clout of reinforcing victim identities

• Internal Family Systems and how many useful concepts have been twisted to the point of being pathological

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Thomas Sowell

• Honestly podcast episode with Freddie deBoer, Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?

• JBP’s conversation with detransitioner Chloe Cole and how therapists are neglecting their duties, particularly when it comes to gender dysphoria

• JBP’s conversation with physician, Dr. Miriam Grossman, on the horrifying history of gender ideology and medicine, and how it is destroying families

• JBP's conversation with former clinician working in the field of transgender medicine, Sara Stockton, who helped to create the process to assess gender-dysphoric children for medical intervention, which she regrets

• Explosive Whose Body Is It? podcast episode with Leigh Janet Marshall, Detransition and Growth

• The WPATH Files, which show through leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that the narratives and interventions for gender medicine are not scientific, not medicine, nor backed by evidence. They also show that many practitioners know that they are not getting proper informed consent from patients or their parents and know that they are causing great harms to them

• Doc: No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care
• Doc: Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion
• Doc: Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender?
• Doc: Cut: Daughters of the West
• Doc: Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities
• Doc: What is a Woman?

• Resources from Pamela's website

• Therapy First, Psychotherapy as first-line treatment for gender dysphoria

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I bring back Sofia Pacitti for Part 2 where we talk all about the rollercoaster that is relationships.

Follow Sofia on IG @fiatheartist!

Topics covered/touched upon: 

• Monogamy vs different types of open relationships, namely, polyamory or ethical non-monogamy (ENM)

• The importance of communication no matter what kind of relationship dynamics you're in, intimate or otherwise

• Our cultural stories about relationships vs reality 

• Giving yourself the time and space to figure yourself out, and how challenging it can be

• Boundaries, self-sabotage, desires, relationship rituals, phases and stages, resentment, and more! 

Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• My first EP, Angel Numbers by Spiritual Superheroes (featuring me, a couple of my best and most talented friends, and some other real cool cats!)

• WellnessTogether.ca (free therapy for Ontario, Canada residents) and BetterHelp.com online therapy

• Aubrey Marcus on Open Relationships

• World-renowned relationship and sex therapist, Esther Perel

• TED Radio Hour and StarTalk Radio podcasts on the history of human promiscuity (I can't seem to find the one I referenced, but please reach out to let me know if you find it! Haha)

UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE YT channel! Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

For more from Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin, follow us on Instagram:

@unapologeticli
@drcsboivin
@maxdraxby

Today's episode is about the beauty of blossoming new friendships. 

Topics covered/touched upon:

• How mindblowing different languages are/communication in general.

• Creativity, art and entrepreneurship, how we go through creative phases, and even creating ourselves is a creative process.

• Monetizing our creative pursuits.

• Making declarations and commitments, and how synchronicities show up in our lives.

• How big a part of our life work is and how so many people have, as David Graeber put it, Bullshit Jobs.

• How so many of us die spiritually, mentally, and emotionally, long before physically.

• Everything being a chaotic gongshow mess.

• Road to Hope, a program I took a few years ago about understanding and healing from childhood trauma.

• "The Secret" of manifestation.

• The scientific story/explanation of the universe/multiverse.

• Learning to pay attention to how our interests choose us, and jumping on magical opportunities.

• Ethical Non-Monogamy and Polyamory.

• Integrating massive core identity changes.

• Having conversations with ourselves and "council meetings" with our higher selves.

• Taking risks in the face of resistance, internal barriers, and defense mechanisms, and using fear as the roadmap we should head toward rather than away from.

• Figuring life out as we go, and going with the flow.

Other things mentioned/to check out:
• My friend Tactile Mind's erotic braille art.

UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing, check out his MEANINGWAVE YouTube channel here!

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In this episode, I sit down with my friend Jordan and we talk about why I haven't made a new podcast episode for almost a year and a half, and a bit of what I have been up to...ie, the ongoing battle with resistance to creative pursuits, persevering through setbacks, and pivoting into new directions. 

I tell Jordan about what I had intended this next episode to be about and why I never followed through with it, which includes a shattered belief about myself.

Other topics touched on:

• Cognitive biases and logical fallacies
• Some of the most impactful moments of my life
• Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris' work on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• How it's hard not to connect with your people when you're in your purpose
• How important it is to reach out and check on your people
• Climbing the mountains that are our big dreams and goals
• Progress over perfection
• An Easter egg at the end of the episode


Some other things mentioned to check out: 

• Mindblowing National Geographic '101' series videos
• human.biodigital.com
• Munk Dialogue with world-renowned historian, Timothy Snyder, on authoritarianism and its 21st century dangers
• Amazing books by Steven Pressfield: The War of Art, Turning Pro, and Do The Work


Where you can find Jordan: 

FB: Jordna Lindo
IG: @unite.infinity
YouTube: askinfinity
Twitter: askinfinity_

As always, thanks so much for listening! Truly. 

In this episode, I share my thoughts on how this pandemic is political, and how it can be seen as a window into some of our greatest challenges as a species, both historically and going forward.

I share a lot of uncomfortable truths I think many of us need to think about and hear, about how most of us are illiterate in the understanding and languages of science, technology, economics, politics, law, business and power that dominate our world, and how we need to take a good hard look at ourselves, individually and collectively, as to how we got here.

I muse on just how laughably absurd so many things are, and how we need to do our best to get our information from reputable and reliable sources—rather than monolithic conspiracy theories—if we're to understand what's actually going on and do something to improve matters.

And I end by sharing reasons for hope and optimism and what we can do, and what some of my favourite sources for information are, namely: 

• Munk Debates and Dialogues (for important and meaningful conversations with experts, and currently focused on how coronavirus will affect our world going forward)
• Future Crunch (for great news in science, tech, business, government, philanthropy, and some fun...including their coronavirus daily dozen good news stories)
• Kurgesagt (one of my favourite things on the internet...amazing animated videos about science, technology, philosophy, and more)
• Good Food Institute (for the future of food and food policy)
• Citizen University (for understanding power dynamics and civic duty)
• James Clear (for expertise in habits and behaviour)
• TED Talks and NPR's Ted Radio Hour (for amazing ideas worth spreading and cutting-edge research in many fields)
• Nafeez Ahmad's Insurge Intelligence (for deep-dive political investigations about the depth of the shit we find ourselves in and challenges that lie ahead)

Other sources not mentioned: 

• Masterclass, MentorBox, and MindValley (for great and relatively affordable online learning spaces)
• Peter Diamandis and Abundance Insider (for a look into the rapidly evolving technology and advancements of the future, happening right now)
• Dandapani (for wisdom and guidance about how our minds work, meditation, and how to use our minds to create the life we want to live)
• Richard Davidson and the Center for Healthy Minds (for new research into the science of mental health and wellbeing)
• Yuval Noah Harari (for an understanding of the history and future of the human species).

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Coronavirus has flipped the world on its head. These are troubling times we find ourselves in, rife with fear and uncertainty, causing us to question what's really going on and who we can trust to inform us truthfully about what's happening in our world. 

Times like these breed distrust and so, naturally, many people are questioning everything, and with that comes the proliferation of conspiracy theories being passed around. 

Some just unproven theories, some proven facts, many being enough to shatter our worldview and fill us with paralyzingly difficult emotions.

In this episode, I share some personal accounts of having gotten deep into conspiracy culture in my youth, and how I navigate this type of information now, both with an open mind and choosing how I respond to it so that it doesn't severely and negatively impact my physical and mental wellbeing as it has in the past.

I acknowledge how deep many of the political and social issues we face truly are while challenging listeners to be objective about what the most effective use of our time is, despite how monolithic our problems may be.

I also advise people to take caution if they intend to journey too deep down the proverbial rabbit hole, and that it's probably better to not waste your time there.

In this episode, I wonder about who the leaders are on this organic spaceship we are all on together, and dive into some of the things that are holding us back and at the heart of our individual and collective challenges.

I reflect on the journey I've been on for these past few years, first picking myself up from the proverbial rock bottom I had landed myself in—learning many tools to overcome the mental health challenges and self-worth issues I was struggling with—to working toward sharing my story and experiences with others with the intention of helping them with where they're at, and, more recently, training myself to show up as a leader for myself and others in my life and in the world. 

And I wonder when you will join me.

In this episode, I chat with my good friend, and neuroscientist, Sofia Raitsin.

Topics Covered: 

• That this was take #2 for us to record
• The neurochemistry of depression
• The overprescribing of psychiatric medications and their relative ineffectiveness compared to the Placebo Effect
• How the environmental and behavioural issues that underly mental health issues like depression and anxiety are not addressed by taking medication, which amounts to putting a bandaid on to cover up the symptoms and also leads to other undesirable side effects
• How our lifestyle choices are a major factor in our mental health and wellness
• The difference between a predisposition and a predetermination when it comes to our potential genetic inheritance of mental health issues and how our choices determine how our genes are expressed
• How non-pharmaceutical treatments, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and rigorously training ourselves to think differently is one of the most powerful tools we can use to cope with the things life throws at us
• That exposure to our fears is what helps us to overcome them
• That underneath all of our social fears and insecurities, and our fear of rejection, is ultimately the fear of death
• If Lindt chocolate would like to sponsor the podcast because it helps with depression much faster than antidepressants
• Learning to love fear and see it as a guiding light, showing us the roadmap to the treasures we seek
• The effects on our mental health from having access to so much information about the problems in the world vs. using these larger issues as an excuse to not take responsibility for the more personal nature of our individual mental health challenges
• Sofia challenges me to reconsider my thoughts on this as I share my story of how the 2008 global financial collapse changed the course of my life and that paying attention to world issues has affected my mental health and wellbeing
• The need to take ownership over and responsibility for our lives in order to overcome learned helplessness, push ourselves out of our comfort zone, and face the hard work and discomfort necessary to improve mental health issues
•Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, social belonging, and the social disconnection at the heart of issues like depression and addiction
• The difference between having a fixed mindset and a growth mindset in our ability to fix, change, and transform our lives
• Recognizing no one else is going to do the work for us. No one can. It's up to us

You can find and follow Sofia and check out her beautiful artwork @philosofi_art on IG.

It's my mom's birthday today y'all!

This is a birthday love letter dedicated to my mom, which I believe also has some messages we could all use from time to time. 

If you see my mom, Vanda, interacting with anywhere this is posted, please feel free to give her some birthday love!