The Dr. Phil Podcast

Predators sit behind keyboards shopping for your child in a store that never closes. Survivors and grieving parents expose the tactics predators use to groom children online, plus learn Dr. Phil gives parents the warning signs to look for. Envoy TV: https://www.envoytv.com/ DeleteMe makes it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online: Join Now: https://JoinDeleteMe. Com/PHIL See Priv...

The algorithm on social media is building a file on your child: what holds them, what hooks them, what keeps them from looking away. Families who nearly lost everything show how it hunts the most vulnerable, and Dr. Phil lays out the three rules of how it really works. Envoy TV: https://www.envoytv.com/ DeleteMe makes it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online: Join Now: https://J...

The harm isn't a glitch…it's the product working as designed. Families reveal how social media was engineered to addict children and keep parents locked out. Dr. Phil hands parents the checklist to see if their child is hooked. Envoy TV: https://www.envoytv.com/ DeleteMe makes it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online: Join Now: https://JoinDeleteMe. Com/PHIL Brought to you by Sl...

Why is Israel ranked the 8th happiest country in the world — despite war, October 7th, and rising antisemitism? In this Oct 7th Anniversary special, we reveal the secret to Israel's happiness in the 2025 World Happiness Report. Based on Gallup data since 2005, not a poll — Israel outranks dozens of peaceful nations. How? It's not about an easy life. It's about a meaningful life. We break down the...

Dr. Phil speaks with Israeli passenger Yaniv Huyan about his quick thinking and courage that helped save Flight 1073 - and the moments that changed everyone on board. Envoy TV: https://www.envoytv.com/ This episode is brought is brought to you by Preserve Gold, call 844-718-2642 or text ASK PHIL to 50505 for your free wealth protection guide. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal...

Every major social media platform has made the same calculated bet: your child's safety is worth less than their bottom line. And not one of them moved until the lawsuits started hitting the stock price. Dr. Phil speaks with a special education teacher whose entire career was built on protecting children ... and who still couldn't protect her own daughter from a predator who found her through...

Dr. Phil is discussing a historic shift in education. Students across the country are being withdrawn from their public schools, and being homeschooled at rates reported to be 3 times higher than before the pandemic, with no slowing down. But an issue some are raising when it comes to homeschooling, is the concern that many states lack oversight, assessments, and regulations that could leave child...

Dr Phil breaks down the rise of AI-generated faith, digital cults, and AI companions that don't just answer you — they mirror you. From chatbots that reinforce any belief to warnings about delusions, loneliness, and mental health, this is The Real Story behind worship in the age of artificial intelligence. What you'll hear: What Spiralism is and how an AI-generated religion signed up 10,000 follow...

Most parents believe sex trafficking happens somewhere else, to other families, other kids, in foreign places, or dark alleyways. That belief is exactly why it keeps happening. Tonight, a survivor whose trafficking began at just eight years old, while she was still living at home. No kidnapping. No running away. No warning signs anyone wanted to see. Her story exposes how exploitation can start qu...

Two mothers who lost their children to filicide... and refused to let it be the end of the story. According to the FBI, approximately 500 children are killed by a parent every single year in the US. Nearly 10 a week. And most of the time, there were warning signs that courts and law enforcement ignored ... until it was too late. Hope Hooton warned family court repeatedly that her estranged husband...

Religious parents don't have to sit down and shut up. Dr. Phil explains the Supreme Court ruling that backs them. A Christian father is suing the Lake Washington School District in Washington State after it denied his religious opt-out request from LGBTQ lessons, Pride Month instruction, and pronoun requirements at Henry David Thoreau Elementary School. Dr. Phil breaks down the lawsuit, Alliance D...

Kary-Ann Parkinson let her 5-year-old son Sam walk half a mile alone to a pond in their Williamsburg, Virginia, gated community. Now she's a convicted criminal, placed on Virginia's Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry for 7 years for trusting her own kid. Dr. Phil breaks down the case, dividing parents: is this justice, or the criminalization of independence? Chapter compares every Medicare p...

Beni Sabti lived under the Iranian regime—and risked everything to escape it. Now a leading Iran expert, he joins Dr. Phil to share what life is really like inside the country, why protests keep erupting, and whether the regime could fall in our lifetime. From nuclear threats to propaganda campaigns, Sabti breaks down what Americans need to know—and what could come next. This episode is brought is...

A family massacre. A teen charged. And ChatGPT, an alleged accomplice. A 17-year-old in Massachusetts is charged with murdering his mother and 14-year-old brother after investigators found he'd used ChatGPT to search "fantasy stories" about killing them. It's the 4th murder case now linked to AI chatbots. Is the technology to blame? We go back 50 years to teens blamed for murder over playing recor...

Dr. Phil sits down with neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath for a wake‑up call every parent needs to hear. Across the country, kids are more distracted, more anxious, and less interested in school, even as classrooms fill up with laptops, tablets, and “learning” apps.​ Dr. Horvath issues a chilling warning: the very school devices families were promised would boost achievemen...

With their hands full grooming dogs and their phones ringing nonstop, the new owners of an established dog-grooming business turn to HighLevel and Dr. Phil for help attracting new customers and keeping their growing business on track. Learn how to build a business that serves your life, not one that consumes it. Sponsored by HighLevel: If you own a small business, don’t skip this. Reclaim your lif...

Another Epic UAP Failure. Dr. Phil breaks down why 93% of Americans have no official way to report a UFO/UAP sighting. Thousands of civilian UAP reports sit untouched while the government turns a blind eye. In today's Real Story, Dr. Phil exposes the broken UAP reporting system: no public reporting channel through AARO or PURSUE, 1,855 "Tier One" credible UFO sightings sitting in NUFORC's dat...

She wasn't just a country legend — she was family we never met. Dolly Parton's passing revealed a real psychological phenomenon: parasocial grief, the one-sided bond that makes losing a stranger feel like losing a loved one. From the wildfire relief fund she launched in 48 hours, to the Imagination Library that's put hundreds of millions of free books in kids' hands, to a million-dollar check writ...

21 days of testimony. Seven days deadlocked. And the Lindsey Clancy jury still couldn't agree. Everyone's got an opinion on this case. But Dr. Phil says most people watching had no idea what the jury was actually deciding. He breaks down the real legal test, why 11 of 12 jurors sided with her, and how "hired gun" witnesses turn tragedies like this into a battle of the experts. But here's what shou...

Stop kidding ourselves. Iran's terrorist regime has hated America from day one — and the past is the clearest proof of what's coming next. Sponsored by Preserve Gold: Get up to $20,000 in FREE Gold & Silver with a qualified purchase. CALL: 844-718-2642 Text ASKPHIL to 50505 or visit https://DrPhilgold.com Sponsored by SleepCreme: The foundation of health begins with sleep. Claim your exclusive...

October 7, 2023 was the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust. Nearly three years later, survivors are still fighting to be believed. Nova Music Festival survivor Noa Beer escaped a terrorist ambush, pulled wounded strangers into her car, and received a chilling voice note during the attack itself. Now she joins Dr. Phil to respond directly to a mainstream media report that reignited...

Burned-out teachers making 73 cents on the dollar. Overworked, underpaid, and walking out the door 7 in 10 quit within five years. This is your kid. Your classroom. Right now. Dr. Phil says it's time to stop talking about fixing education and start doing it.  Sponsored by Preserve Gold: Get up to $20,000 in FREE Gold & Silver with a qualified purchase. CALL: 844-718-2642 Text ASKPHIL to 5...

Dr. Phil discusses the dangerous and deadly national takeover trend that thousands of teens and young adults are participating in throughout small towns, and big cities, across the country. A trend that is being promoted on social media and results in hundreds of minors and young adults taking over streets, beaches, parks, malls, and even abandoned properties. Dr. Phil sits down with parents, Terr...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are moving back to England after 6 years away and it's bigger than a headline about the royals. Dr. Phil breaks down the real story behind their reconciliation: why family estrangement happens, what it actually takes to come back together, and why so many of us wait too long to make the first move. If you've ever pushed someone a...

20 years ago, Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet and leader of a polygamist and religious sect, called the FLDS, was captured – leading to a conviction, and life sentence for aggravated sexual assault against two minor females. But one year prior to Jeffs apprehension, Dr. Phil received a guest submission that introduced him to 2 teenage girls, both named Fawn, who claimed to escape the rel...