{"podcast":{"title":"Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels","slug":"keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553","podcast_index_feed_id":407553,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RSV6639940368","website_url":"https://www.jillianmichaels.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/44e661ea-b932-11f0-b681-67f1474598d1/image/36c0022c28f7e35a9786023365864486.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Jillian Michaels","episode_count":941,"summary":"Jillian Michaels is renowned for transforming lives. Her fearless honesty, passion, and extensive knowledge on health, fitness, and nutrition have made her America’s go to motivator and wellness expert for the past two decades. This new format features an impressive lineup of guests and broadens the conversation to tackle the tough topics which matter the most in helping us better understand ourselves and the world around us. Through in-depth discussions and short form content, Jillian brings valuable insights, inspiring life stories, and actionable advice from leading thinkers, innovators, and change makers in a variety of fields. Her guests aren’t just experts they’re pioneers who’ve reshaped their industries and the way we think. From medicine to mental health, groundbreaking science to current events, relationships to career she explores the frontiers of knowledge and personal development that changes lives. In an era where we’re inundated with conflicting information and compromised narratives, \"Keeping It Real\" stands out as trusted resource that informs, inspires, and empowers its audience. A forum where the power of dialogue and diverse perspectives reigns supreme and the…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T02:19:26.322787+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553"},"episode":{"title":"DEI’S HIDDEN HISTORY - THE STORY YOU WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO KNOW","slug":"dei-s-hidden-history-the-story-you-were-never-supposed-to-know","published_at":"2026-05-13T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/dei-s-hidden-history-the-story-you-were-never-supposed-to-know","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/mgln.ai/e/101/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RSV1588302654.mp3?updated=1778628421","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/mgln.ai/e/101/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RSV1588302654.mp3?updated=1778628421","summary":"What if the biggest culture war in America wasn’t a grassroots revolution at all… but a system designed to keep ordinary people divided while the people at the top quietly consolidated more power than ever before? In this episode of Keeping It Real, Jillian dives into the hidden history behind modern DEI, identity politics, Cold War influence operations, and the institutional networks that shaped today’s corporate and academic culture. From declassified CIA programs and Senate investigations to the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations, this is the hidden history of modern DEI. This episode follows the paper trail through the Cold War, the CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” propaganda network, McGeorge Bundy, the Ford Foundation, and the rise of the Black Panthers — whose free breakfast programs, health clinics, and cross-racial Rainbow Coalition threatened to unite working people around class and economic power. J Edgar Hoover and the FBI actually went after Fred Hampton because message wasn’t Black vs. white. It was poor people vs. concentrated power. And according to Hoover that was more dangerous than riots and civil unrest. From the Congress for Cultural Freedom and foundation-funded activism to the rise of corporate HR culture and modern diversity bureaucracy, this episode explores how class-based populism may have been replaced by institutionalized identity management designed to absorb outrage without ever threatening the underlying power structure. You’ll hear about: The CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” influence network Declassified Cold War psychological operations The Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations connection to intelligence agencies How J Edgar Hoover’s FBI went after the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition Why cross-racial working-cl…","meta_description":"What if the biggest culture war in America wasn’t a grassroots revolution at all… but a system designed to keep ordinary people divided while the people a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2354,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/episodes/dei-s-hidden-history-the-story-you-were-never-supposed-to-know/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/dei-s-hidden-history-the-story-you-were-never-supposed-to-know.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}