{"podcast":{"title":"The Never Stop Learning Podcast","slug":"the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213","podcast_index_feed_id":7776213,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/20260320_100327_648d3e6c6b2ee18c8e24691d53de7e6c.png","author":"The Never Stop Learning Team","episode_count":36,"summary":"Never Stop Learning Podcasts is an investigative learning audio library for curious minds. Each episode is a long-form deep dive designed to take you through a topic from beginning to end—exploring the foundations, the mechanics, the tensions, and the bigger picture in a clear, structured way. The show begins with our own curiosity. We choose the subjects, shape the questions, and follow the threads we want to understand more deeply. From there, we use AI as part of the creative process to help organize ideas, build the narrative, and turn that exploration into a coherent long-form story. The final audio is then created using Google LM to make each deep dive practical to listen to while walking, driving, or moving through everyday life. This show is not built to hand you an answer or tell you what to think. It exists to help frame complex topics more clearly, deepen understanding, and leave you with a broader perspective than you had when you started. The goal is to satisfy curiosity, explore ideas honestly, and help listeners understand the full picture in a world that usually stops at the headline.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T04:19:47.286814+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213"},"episode":{"title":"Shame: The Emotion Beneath Exposure, Self-Attack, and the Fear of Losing Belonging","slug":"shame-the-emotion-beneath-exposure-self-attack-and-the-fear-of-losing-belonging","published_at":"2026-04-14T19:46:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/shame-the-emotion-beneath-exposure-self-attack-and-the-fear-of-losing-belonging","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2708675","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/378947/2708675/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2026_04_08_12_22_46_7c9d9043-fec5-41fc-8e20-ecd38b3f6c87.mp3","summary":"Shame: The Emotion Beneath Exposure, Self-Attack, and the Fear of Losing Belonging ...In this episode of The Never Stop Learning Podcast, we explore shame as more than a painful feeling. We trace how it turns exposure into self-attack, why it so often feels like a threat to belonging, and how it can quietly shape identity, relationships, pride, anger, secrecy, and the way people live inside their own minds. Drawing on the work of June Tangney, Paul Gilbert, Donald Nathanson, Thomas Scheff, and Brené Brown , this episode follows shame from the distinction between guilt and self-condemnation to the deeper social and psychological forces that make being seen feel dangerous. The goal is not to offer quick fixes or easy confidence, but to understand shame from beginning to end, and to ask what it would mean to live with more dignity, less secrecy, and a broader perspective on the self.","meta_description":"Shame: The Emotion Beneath Exposure, Self-Attack, and the Fear of Losing Belonging ...In this episode of The Never Stop Learning Podcast, we explore shame…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2550,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/episodes/shame-the-emotion-beneath-exposure-self-attack-and-the-fear-of-losing-belonging/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/shame-the-emotion-beneath-exposure-self-attack-and-the-fear-of-losing-belonging.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}