This is Privilege With Purpose with Daava Mills and Alena Francis. They are inviting you in on difficult conversations about topics that are normally only whispered about behind closed doors. 

in this episode, Daava and Alena challenge whether or not the self help industry is actually helping. We're not saying that the individual self help gurus or individual self help organizations discussed in this episode are cults, but rather, that the self help industry more broadly acts like a cult, selling us on a life of happiness with things that we don't actually need and that will not make us happy. 

The fact is, there is no magic bullet for health and happiness. Remember your life is yours and your happiness is up to you. You need to be accountable to yourself and to your needs. 

Don't let anyone tell you what happiness should be for you.  

1:39 Intro

2:19 Landmark

5:05 Self help is not self helping

6:36 Self help is all about the money

13:11 Did you manifest it or was it white privilege?

14:25 Who are the top spiritual leaders

15:25 Tony Robbins

17:24 Boiling it down to the lowest common denominator

22:08 The help people really need

25:36 Self proclaimed gurus are not even experts in their fields

28:31 Oprah is basically street smart

29:38 Takeaways

36:28 Bonus Footage

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Episode Links:

Landmark

Psychobabble

Oprah

Tony Robbins

Brené Brown

Rachel Hollis

John of God