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Owen Fitzpatrick: The Voice in Your Head Is Lying to You | Owen Fitzpatrick: Inner Propaganda
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- The Dov Baron Show
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- May 17, 2026
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- 3671
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Owen Fitzpatrick: The Voice in Your Head Is Lying to You 👉 A note before we begin: This episode contains a frank discussion of suicide, depression, and indoctrination. Owen 👉 and Dov handle these subjects with care, but if any of it lands hard for you, please pause and reach out to someone 👉you trust. What if the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever built isn't owned by a government, isn't an algorithm — but lives inside your own skull, speaks in your own voice, and has been running unchallenged since you were a child? You probably don't remember the first time that voice told you that you weren't enough. By the time you noticed it, you'd already mistaken it for yourself. The limits you call realistic, the fears you call wisdom, the resignation you call maturity — those were never facts. They were stories your brain has been selling you on repeat, in your voice, while you silently nodded along and signed for the delivery. . In this episode, Dov sits down with Owen Fitzpatrick — psychologist, behavioral scientist, TEDx speaker with over two million views, and author of the new book Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds Through Turbulent Times, with endorsements from Tony Robbins and others. . Owen has traveled to over 100 countries, including North Korea, Rwanda, and Afghanistan, studying propaganda where it does the most damage. But the work didn't start in a lab. It started at 14, in a bedroom in Dublin, with a blue pen, a red journal, and the tools to end his life. He began writing a suicide note. His hand slipped. He accidentally wrote a question instead of a statement. That single accidental question rerouted the next three decades of his life. . Then Dov does something rare. He sits Owen down and asks him point-blank whether his current work teaching le…