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Culture Changers with Allison Hare

Allison Hare

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 cults, trad wives, microtrends, money, faith, and what it actually means to be human right now. Listen, it's time to get up and do something. We've got a world to change!

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  • #308
    Thursday · 1 hr 9 min

    Death of the Pastor's Wife: What Netflix Left Out

    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

  • #307
    September 3 · 47 min

    Healing is Hilarious: Pop culture and comedians with Rachel LaForce

    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, occa

  • #306
    August 27 · 1 hr

    The Ambition Penalty with Stefanie O'Connell

    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 pr

  • #305
    August 20 · 54 min

    Gen X, there's a new Lilith Fair rising

    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 stea

  • #304
    August 13 · 52 min

    Fascinating lies behind our favorite ads

    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.

  • #303
    August 6 · 1 hr 5 min

    I Found My Dad's Lost Story

    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

  • #302
    June 25 · 51 min

    Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders Season 3: We can't stop! w/ Mara Davis

    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.

  • #301
    June 18 · 42 min

    DEI Is Gone. Now What? With HR Insider Kevin Calhoun

    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.

  • #300
    June 11 · 23 min

    The Matriarchy

    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.

  • #299
    June 4 · 49 min

    Inside a hit comedy podcast with The Commercial Break

    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.

  • #298
    May 28 · 56 min

    The Guru Era is Dead. What comes next? with Dr. Liz Bucar

    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.

  • #297
    May 21 · 1 hr 8 min

    Ex-Mormon, Ex-MAGA, Ex-Tradwife: How Lesbians Broke the Spell with Jennie Gage

    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.

  • #296
    May 7 · 1 hr 3 min

    Healing from Religious Trauma, Silence Culture, and Modern Politics with Tia Levings

    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.

  • #295
    April 30 · 1 hr 11 min

    Has biohacking made us lonely? with Chris Schembra

    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

  • #294
    April 23 · 57 min

    White Women Villains: Brené, Mel & the Wellness Grifter Blame Game

    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.

  • #292
    April 2 · 43 min

    Magic Mushrooms, Body Trauma, and the Message I Couldn't Ignore

    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

  • #291
    March 26 · 46 min

    Are women getting TOO skinny (again)?

    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

  • #290
    March 19 · 51 min

    Stop Posting Into the Void: A CNN Producer's Blueprint for Actually Being Heard with Jamie Maglietta

    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.

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