The Marianne Williamson Podcast

The Marianne Williamson Podcast

People are ready to go deeper, be more truthful, and face challenges that confront us in more meaningful ways. We need to talk about causes and not just symptoms, face some inconvenient truths, and have more than prepackaged conversations among us. One question weaves through The Marianne Williamson Podcast - how did we get to where we are, and how can we change things now?

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August 26, 2025 31 mins

I’ve been a fan of Sam Daley Harris for many years. His thinking and activism has motivated and inspired my own efforts in the non-profit world.

An organization he founded called RESULTS is a citizen lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end poverty and hunger. His work has literally saved people’s lives. He founded and now leads Civic Courage, providing all of us the opportunity to make a diff...

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There’s a general consensus about a few things regarding AI:

  • It’s here and it’s not going anyplace. The world will never be the same.
  • It’s extremely convenient to use at times, though people should realize that sometimes it lies.
  • The environmental damage it causes is huge.
  • In the hands of corporations like Palintir, it’s already being used for what could be government control and totalitarian purposes...
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August 18, 2025 19 mins

From deporting innocent citizens to criminalizing homelessness, America’s government today is breaking laws and normalizing cruelty. Tens of thousands of America’s unhoused population work part or even full time. Many have children. When homeless encampments are removed and people’s belongings trashed, how are those people to keep their jobs? How are the children to go to school? The level of trauma being ...

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Earlier today I posted a video about the shameless Congressional redistricting plan going on in Texas. I said I’d be back with my interview with Beto O’Rourke, so here it is! He’s filled with great information and I’m glad to share it.

No one need feel helpless in the face of Trump’s onslaught, because there’s a lot we can do. But We the People need to do it. Beto’s organization P...

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A little change of pace today…

I did an interview you might enjoy. Relationships, sociopaths and spirituality are the topics covered in my conversation with author Arielle Ford about her latest book, “The Love Thief.”

The book is coming out this week, and if you find the interview compelling you can check it out at at www.thelovethief.com. It’s based on a true story and captures insights very relevant to t...

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Marianne Williamson talks to The Real News Network's Max Alvarez about the dire situation in East Palestine, Ohio and Norfolk Southern’s actions that brought on the disaster.


They also discuss where the labor movement is today.

 

Learn more about Max and The Real News Network
Follow Max on Twitter @maximillian_alv

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Mariane talks to labor organizer and Amazon Labor Union president Christian Smalls about his fight against Amazon and the larger impacts he's had on the current labor movement. 

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Marianne Williamson discusses the legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with historian Harvey Kaye.

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Follow Harvey on Twitter @HarveyJKaye

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Should government be run like a business? No, says Donald Cohen, the founder and executive director of In The Public Interest and author of the book “The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back"
 
In this episode, Marianne & Donald go deep into the insidious ways that private industry exerts undue influence on our government. These intere...
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Marianne interviews climate scientist Peter Kalmus for Earth Day.

 

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“Get me out of here.” Five simple words religious scholar Diana Butler Bass heard repeatedly while sitting in a pew at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. But why? And who was whispering this to her? 

Jesus. And she writes about why in her latest book, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence 

Diana and Marianne discuss what Jesus means to them individually and the importance of f...

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Marianne Williamson discusses spirituality and brain science with stroke survivor and neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. The two talk about Dr. Taylor's recovery, the difference in the brains of boomers and millennials and how to create and keep a healthy brain. The conversation stems from Dr. Taylor's latest book, "Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life."

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Marianne talks to Real News Network editor-in-chief Max Alvarez in the wake of the historic vote to unionize a Staten Island Amazon warehouse.

The two discuss the lead up to the vote, why it was successful as well as the history of labor in the United States.

Read, listen to and watch Max Alvarez's work: https://therealnews.com

 
Follow Max on Twitter: @maximillian_alv

Max's book "The Work of Liv...
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Thousands of Americans now reject the American experiment and are actively trying to tear the country apart. White nationalists have infiltrated just about every community, seriously armed, and can be found in towns and cities across the United Stares.

Marianne discusses all of this with author Stephen Marche who details the problems we face in his frightening new book, “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future.”

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Marianne speaks with Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) about his new book "DIGNITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Making Tech Work for All of Us," other progressive issues, and also the war in Ukraine.

 

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The ascension of far right politics in this country didn't happen overnight - it was manufactured over decades. Marianne Williamson talks to author Nancy MacLean about her book “Democracy in Chains,” chronicling how proponents of property rights absolutism thought they could only succeed by putting “democracy in chains.”

Democracy in Chains

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Williamson discusses the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings with Harvard historian Annette-Gordon Reed.

 

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Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton can be found at some of the most important events of the last decade. His on-the-ground reporting from Flint, Standing Rock and the 2020 BLM protests among others brings us the in-depth coverage the corporate media ignores. So why is his material being suppressed? Jordan and Marianne sit-down to discuss the state of the news media, how big tech squashes independent outlets while propping up corporate b...

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According to journalist Andrew Cockburn in his latest book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, our bloated $778 billion defense budget doesn’t necessarily provide for our safety. Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has spent decades covering the Pentagon and defense industry and says money and power - not legitimate security concerns - is what drives our ballooning military budget.

Our podcast c...

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Routing the Taliban from Afghanistan was a successful exercise in brute force. But keeping them out - and helping the Afghans keep them out - was something that required skills not currently in America’s tool box. If anything, we proved the ultimate futility of endless violence. We succeeded at waging war, but we failed miserably at providing the conditions of a sustainable post-war state of peace. 

THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: An Effor...

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