{"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":"The Ultimate Clash: Jillian Michaels vs. Sam Seder | No Holds Barred","slug":"the-ultimate-clash-jillian-michaels-vs-sam-seder-no-holds-barred","published_at":"2026-05-20T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/the-ultimate-clash-jillian-michaels-vs-sam-seder-no-holds-barred","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/RSV9472146908.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/mgln.ai/e/101/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RSV9472146908.mp3","summary":"So much for common ground… Buckle up because this week Jillian Michaels sits across from Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report, for a bare-knuckle debate on government waste, Iran, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, DOGE, USAID and more. Nothing was off-limits. If you wanted a polite, coordinated conversation, go somewhere else. This is a full-throated ideological fight. In this episode, they tear into: The Global Health & Foreign Aid Crisis: The dismantling of USAID is front and center — is America's withdrawal from international NGO funding a necessary correction or a catastrophic failure? The debate gets heated fast, with the \"last-mile\" operational collapse in Uganda and the human cost of overnight co-investment mandates laid bare. The Mamdani-Khomeini Comparison: The Iranian diaspora isn't staying quiet — and this is where things get truly combustible. Jillian comes in swinging, amplifying the voices of exiles who lived through the revolution and are drawing chilling parallels between Mamdani's ideological framework and the Ayatollah's early intellectual positioning and Sam gets outraged. The Iran Conflict & The Fog of War: A fierce legal and ethical battle erupts over the recent strikes in Iran. The tragic Minab school bombing, the possibility of flawed targeting intelligence, and the complex question of civilian protections when military assets are embedded in non-military infrastructure all get put under the microscope. Russia, Ukraine & the NATO Fault Line: With the war grinding into a new phase, they go head to head on whether Western alliance commitments are a stabilizing force or a provocation that made this conflict inevitable DOGE, PBMs, and Domestic Warfare: The heat turns inward to tackle domestic deregulation, the rising influence of the Department of Governmen…","meta_description":"So much for common ground… Buckle up because this week Jillian Michaels sits across from Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report, for a bare-knuckle debate…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6383,"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/the-ultimate-clash-jillian-michaels-vs-sam-seder-no-holds-barred/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/the-ultimate-clash-jillian-michaels-vs-sam-seder-no-holds-barred.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}