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June 5, 2026

The Gift I've Been Hiding From You

Doug gets honest about something he's been holding back, and why the social commentary was always the real thing underneath the fiction. Book a Call: https://link.thedigitaltrifecta.com/widget/bookings/douglas-robins Website: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow Men's Work: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/mens-work Writing Coaching: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/writing-coaching Black Cloud Rises: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cloud-Rises-Douglas-Robbins/dp/1733397817 Leaves Piled High: https://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Piled-High-Douglas-Robbins-ebook/dp/B00AM8E2N6 A Love in a Dying Town:…

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June 5, 2026

30 Kids, No Nurturing, Just Regurgitation

Doug grew up as the shy kid in a New York City production line classroom. What he figured out is that school was never really about you, and why that still matters today. Book a Call: https://link.thedigitaltrifecta.com/widget/bookings/douglas-robins Website: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow Men's Work: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/mens-work Writing Coaching: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/writing-coaching Black Cloud Rises:…

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June 5, 2026

Victimhood, Anger, and What School Ignores

Nobody questions a broken leg. But a broken emotional life? You're on your own. Doug makes the case for why emotional healing belongs in the classroom just as much as history does. Book a Call: https://link.thedigitaltrifecta.com/widget/bookings/douglas-robins Website: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow Men's Work: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/mens-work Writing Coaching: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/writing-coaching Black Cloud Rises: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cloud-Rises-Douglas-Robbins/dp/1733397817…

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June 5, 2026

You're Brilliant. Why Are You Still Stuck?

Intelligence without emotional development only gets you so far. Doug lays out why the smartest people in the room are still struggling, and what school never bothered to teach them about themselves. Book a Call: https://link.thedigitaltrifecta.com/widget/bookings/douglas-robins Website: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow Men's Work: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/mens-work Writing Coaching: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/writing-coaching Black Cloud Rises: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cloud-Rises-Douglas-Robbins/dp/1733397817…

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June 5, 2026

Okay, Go. Here's Your Adult Card.

School handed you a diploma and sent you out the door. No emotional tools, no financial basics, no map. Doug breaks down the two things education skips that wreck most people's adult lives. Book a Call: https://link.thedigitaltrifecta.com/widget/bookings/douglas-robins Website: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow Men's Work: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/mens-work Writing Coaching: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/writing-coaching Black Cloud Rises:…

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June 5, 2026

What School Never Taught You About Yourself

School spends years developing your mind and almost no time developing the part of you that actually runs your life. Doug gets blunt about what's missing from education, why so many people hit their 30s and 40s still stuck, and what it would look like if we actually prepared people…

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June 1, 2026

Healthcare Billionaires and Moral Bankruptcy w/Douglas Robbins

Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/981835/fan_mail/new) 50 individual billionaires, middle men, have been made from the American health care system. Dozens of pharmaceutical and insurance companies have also gotten filthy rich. While many Americans have gone bankrupt. Some of the numbers will shock you. What if that money didn't go up…

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May 28, 2026

The Story Behind a Dying Town

Doug has never told this story publicly before. A Love in a Dying Town wasn't just inspired by economic collapse and dying factory towns. It started with a real relationship, a three-year-old girl, and a realization that the need went both ways. The book spent years under a different title.…

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May 28, 2026

A Father Who Refused to Lose Hope

A single father. A town in freefall. Foreclosures, factory shutdowns, and a little girl watching her dad decide what kind of man he's going to be. A Love in a Dying Town started as a story about economic collapse, but it became something else: a quiet story about holding onto…

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May 28, 2026

"Healthcare" Billionaires

There are roughly fifty billionaires built on the American healthcare system while millions of Americans ration insulin, avoid ambulances, and go bankrupt after illness. Doug runs the numbers, follows the money, and names the structure for what it actually is. US healthcare spending tops five trillion a year. The top…

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May 18, 2026

Motorcycles, Brothers, and Letting Go

Doug Robbins on Bartleby the Scrivener, the quiet power of saying "I'd prefer not to," and the story behind Leaves Piled High, his collection about young love, brothers, motorcycles, and the open road as a place for healing. Read Leaves Piled High: https://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Piled-High-Douglas-Robbins-ebook/dp/B00AM8E2N6 More from Doug: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/ Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow/ #DouglasRobbins…

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May 18, 2026

The Only Minority Destroying America

Doug Robbins on the bumper sticker that stopped him in his tracks, and the case that billionaire hoarding is less about money and more about something deeply broken. When greed and ego eclipse humanity, the money stops helping anyone, including the people holding it. Books, podcast, and more: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/ Podcast:…

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May 18, 2026

This Is Your Life. Right Now.

Doug Robbins on the trap of living for a future that may never arrive. Your body remembers every thought you feed it. Eat well, think well, step into the sun. This moment is the only life you actually have. Books, podcast, and more: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/ Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow/ #DouglasRobbins #PresentMoment #Mindfulness #LiveNow…

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May 18, 2026

Why I Stopped Chasing the Next Thing

Doug Robbins on the quiet work of recovery. Why slowing down after a string of wins is not laziness, it is how you keep creating without burning out. The present moment is where life actually happens. Books, podcast, and more: https://douglasrobbinsauthor.com/ Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/TheDouglasRobbinsShow/ #DouglasRobbins #PresentMoment #Burnout #Mindfulness #Recovery #SlowDown #StoriesWithSoul

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May 4, 2026

Built from the Quiet w/Anamarie Lopategui

Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/981835/fan_mail/new) Built From The Quiet: Secrets From A Basque Sheepherder That Will Transform Your Business And Life. (https://www.amazon.com/Built-Quiet-Sheepherder-Transform-Business/dp/B0GFY97NTP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BSIG0EQ7RHYX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.WHHmD-iYdpxhLtU4Y0tZYBYVGQtouXFD2KgQa9iPrZndfv_Tz7g1OFxZvjyp_1V2nK4YQuaF4Vr0cTDjYHe1fA.lo_E74oqnD0fhKTn31m__I285B9O7MjyZtBPriJdxlw&dib_tag=se&keywords=built+from+the+quiet+book&qid=1777904812&sprefix=%2Caps%2C386&sr=8-1) This is a fantastic book that follows her father's journey escaping the dictator Franco out of the Basque Region of Spain and through the Pyrenees Mountains when he…

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April 30, 2026

Your Cravings Are Not About Hunger

Comfort food has nothing to do with food. It never did. Doug gets vulnerable about emotional eating, tracing the craving for pizza, ice cream, and carbs back to something much deeper: a wounded part of us that feels alone, unsafe, and is reaching for the closest thing it can find…

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April 29, 2026

What You Feed Your Mind Is Eating You Alive

Comfort food has nothing to do with food. It never did. Doug gets vulnerable about emotional eating, tracing the craving for pizza, ice cream, and carbs back to something much deeper: a wounded part of us that feels alone, unsafe, and is reaching for the closest thing it can find…

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April 28, 2026

Stop Letting Friends Kill Your Dreams

A winner's mentality has nothing to do with beating anyone else. Doug breaks down what it actually means to win, winning the moment, winning your thoughts, winning the actions you take today, and why failure is nothing more than a learning tool that sharpens your focus for the next step.…

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April 27, 2026

Millionaires Are Miserable. Here's Why.

Plenty of millionaires are miserable. Doug's been one of the people chasing the next thing. He knows what that costs.In this episode he redefines prosperity from the inside out, using the image of a river, a garden, a divine current of purpose and truth that grows the more you tend…

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April 26, 2026

Honor Yourself and Watch What Follows

Living your potential and loving yourself are the same thing. Doug just said it clearer than most people ever have. In this episode he connects the dots between self-belief, love, and joy, and makes the case that every doubt, every fear, every program running in the back of your mind…

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April 24, 2026

Live Your Dreams

"Live your dreams" is on a sign somewhere near you right now. And it means almost nothing. Doug breaks down why chasing dreams as external things, cars, money, status, keeps you stuck, and what it actually means to embody your potential instead of just pursuing it. It's not fake it…

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April 24, 2026

Recycling Was a Corporate Lie All Along

ou've been recycling for decades. That was the point. "Keep America Beautiful," the campaign with the crying Native American standing on a pile of garbage, wasn't started by environmentalists. It was funded by Koch, Pepsi, and major packaging manufacturers to shift the blame for the plastic crisis away from corporations…

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April 24, 2026

You Owe This Planet a Thank You

Everything you own came from this earth. Your clothes, your food, your warmth, the air you're breathing right now. Doug pauses on Earth Day to say what most of us forget: we take and take and take, and we almost never stop to say thank you. No lecture. No politics.…

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April 22, 2026

The Battle to Be Present

Your brain is scanning for danger that doesn't exist. And it's been doing it for years. Doug breaks down why being "in the present" isn't as automatic as it sounds, how old beliefs create false projections we mistake for reality, and what it actually takes to win the battle for…

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