The Badass Counseling Show

Mar 22 2025 300 ep. 50 mins 268
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Sven Erlandson, TikTok star, best-selling author & founder of BadassCounseling (NYC), is a CEO-whisperer & soul counselor, who kicks your ass, taking you to the dark places of life to finally heal into true ALIVENESS! Listen for new counseling sessions every Thursday, and Sven's responses to his followers' questions every Sunday. Explicit content.

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Q&A: Starting Over, The Meaning of Strength, and More

Mar 22 2025 60 mins  
Send us a text Sven tackles more intriguing questions from his followers in this Lightning Round. Topics include people pleasing, kids living with exes, inviting family to your wedding, dating while healing, leaving a marriage after age 70, and much more. Please listen in! Explicit content.

Memories Too Hot To Touch

Mar 19 2025 60 mins  
Send us a text Steig has cut off his mother and brother after an abusive childhood in which his father left before he was 3. Something is holding him back from healing, and Sven guides him to confront the answer in some ugly truths about his brother. Explicit content.

Q&A: Love You But Not In Love With You, Parenting, and More

Mar 15 2025 57 mins  
Send us a text Topics in this recorded Lightning Round include: Alone at 24 and fear of dating, compassion for our own unhealed parenting, exes ruining your life with your kids, broken trust, AA sponsorship, addiction, and much more. Listen in as Sven takes questions as they come in from TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. Explicit content.

Don't Fear the Reaper

Mar 12 2025 57 mins  
Send us a text Charo blames herself for her husband's suicide. She feels like she made him do it. But Sven counsels her to look at the truth of his drug addiction and abuse, and guides her toward a new understanding of her parents' influence on her feelings, and how to pass along the right impression to her own children. Explicit content.

BONUS: "Don't Fear the Reaper" Overtime

Mar 12 2025 9 mins  
Send us a text Sven has a heart-to-heart discussion with Charo after the show. Explicit content.

Q&A: Afraid to Be Happy, Forgiveness, and More

Mar 08 2025 62 mins  
Send us a text Nothing gets Sven going like rapid-fire questions coming at him from 3 social media platforms at once. In this episode he responds to issues including emotional intelligence, narcs at work, the need (or lack of need) for forgiveness, low self-esteem, loss of family, and much more. Please listen in to this provocative lightning round! Explicit content.

Cheating: The Truth Hurts

Mar 05 2025 52 mins  
Send us a text Cheating causes your partner incalculable pain, but in this counseling episode Sven works with Suki, whose pain was multiplied by her husband's decision to become a serial cheater while their young daughter was dying of cancer. Sven helps Suki face the truth of her difficult situation, even as her husband seems willing to change. For another angle on this story, list

Q&A: Family Hate, Narc Love, and More

Mar 01 2025 56 mins  
Send us a text More unpredictable questions taken live by Sven and recorded for another Lightning Round episode. Topics include: Dealing with paralysis, worrying about screwing your kids up, what if I'm the narc, domestic abuse, and much more. Please listen in! Explicit content.

Trauma, Theft, and Trust

Feb 26 2025 68 mins  
Send us a text Here's the other side of Cass' story, last week's "Robbed of Normal." Meet Kitty, Cass' wife, who can't get past Cass' drinking and stealing, and wonders if she can stay in the marriage. Childhood trauma figures in, and Sven guides Kitty to confront her honest feelings and the truth about her life...and her marriage. Explicit content.

Q&A: Sex and Love, Authenticity, and More

Feb 22 2025 62 mins  
Send us a text In this Lightning Round, Sven takes questions and comments on topics including sexual trauma, love bombing, a partner's bad behavior, how to tell the kids about divorce, and much more. Please listen in! Explicit content.