Simplify

Kollo Media, Caitlin Schiller

New look is here, new season, coming soon! Simplify is now independently owned by Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler. Simplify is a podcast for anyone who’s taken a close look at their habits, their happiness, their relationships, or their health and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to do this.”

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Episodes (103)

Monday Jane Borden: Cults and the American Monomyth
Jan 26th Seth Godin: Make Better Plans (and How to Beat AI)
Jan 12th Elinor Cleghorn: The Sacrifices Behind Women's Health

Simplify

Feb 9, 2026
53½ minutes
48 MB

What if the United States wasn’t just influenced by cult-like thinking, but shaped by it from the very beginning? This week on Simplify, Caitlin Schiller speaks with journalist and author Jane Borden, whose book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America explores how cult dynamics show up across U.S. history, politics, consumer culture, and self-help. From Puritan theology to superhero movies, Borden argues that cults aren’t fringe phenomena—they’re extreme versions of patterns baked so deep into American culture that they came over in the metaphorical sourdough starter brought over on the Mayflowe...

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Jane Borden: Cults and the American Monomyth

Kollo Media, Caitlin Schiller

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