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Battle for Your Brain: Curiosity, Courage, and Control
Robin Golinski and Dr. Dennis Becker make a bold case: our culture often rewards manipulation because people fear backlash and comply. This episode flips that script. Robin and Dennis show how learning in-the-moment self-protection skills—clear boundaries, firm inflection, steady eye contact, succinct language—creates a personal and societal ripple effect: we stop feeding the very behavior we want to end.
They unpack the hidden “tells” manipulators scan for (up-talk, hesitations, slumped posture, over-explaining) and explain why backlash is actually a sign of success—evidence your boundary…
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