Self-help mentors and gurus

So I'll let you in on TV secret: I kinda dig self-help gurus.

At the moment, I'm sitting at the start of a 3-day weekend online event hosted by Jack "Chicken-Soup-For-The-Soul" Canfield, which probably costs about $5K but I got it for free thanks to a mutual client.

I'm addicted to podcasts like The Science of Success, Bulletproof, the Five-Hour-Workweek, etc. I'm not a fan for a number of reasons of Tony Robbins, but I've learned a lot from Michael Hyatt.

And don't get me started on Dave Ramsey.

So whose self-mastery journey do you follow?

 

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These people and life coaches …

 

Holy hell, I have the opposite reaction. His godawful informercials are on after the relatively inoffensive programming on ABC or NBC on Sunday mornings ("let's look at animals!" with Dylan and Sheinelle, or the morning news), and I can't get to the remote fast enough to change the channel. When you say his wife's plastic surgery fund, do you mean his as well? Because he doesn't look entirely human either.

 

Also, a more vaguely on-topic response - It's ancient history now, but before Adam Carolla went nutty right-wing and Dr. Drew basically agreed to be on any television show that would write him a check, the "Loveline" radio show was pretty interesting. I oddly think it helped me develop my interviewing skills, because it was interesting how they would just pick and pick and pick at some callers to get the actual details out of them. It was also fantastic when callers "no sold" when they would get something. (Clip here, with the call starting at about 2:00.)

Of all people, Ryen Russillo does a "Life Advice" segment on his podcast now. It kind of fills the same niche - it's mostly 20-something dudes in or just out of college with problems. But, there is something oddly entertaining about hearing him go through them with practical advice.

 

I dig that portion of Russillo's podcast as well (even though I'm well past that demographic.)

 

I adored Loveline and loved it when Carolla made his cracks against the kids who went to "junior college" (this from a guy who went that route). He's gone all Dennis Miller-like? That's a shame.

 

Like, way past Miller I think. I tapped out like 5 or 6 years ago, and even by that point, I was mostly interested when he would have a decent guest on.

 

Greatest snake oil salesman of all time but yeah, he's smooth, the best of the best when it comes to that kind of thing.