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WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

AI Is Not Your Best Life Coach. Emotional Manipulation vs. The Power of Self-Referencing

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I’ve never used ChatGPT. Couldn’t tell you how to do it. So, not surprisingly…

I’ve never used AI for life guidance. And I never will. Because turning to algorithms for soul advice? That’s not evolution—it’s devolution. 

But…asking AI for life advice and personal goal-setting is ACTUALLY TRENDING. 

Heavy sigh.

This week, I’m naming what’s happening underneath all the dopamine hits. 

We’ve worked too hard to break free from shallow psychotherapists and profit-centric Priestesses to fall for Chat-f*cking-GPT subbing as our next spiritual advisor.

Want real wisdom? Put the phone down. It’s less sexy, and the dopamine is modest. But the results of self-referencing and a loving support system lead to your radiant power.

In this episode:

  • Why asking AI for spiritual guidance or life advice is a dangerous dependency
  • Fawning as emotional manipulation—human and algorithmic
  • How AI reflects your hungry ghost back to you (with charm)
  • What true, self-sourced consciousness looks like in a world of synthetic wisdom


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0:00.0

My loves, I have a little story and an invitation for you. For a period of time when I was doing

0:07.0

speaking gigs, I would ask my audiences where they sourced hope. And the pattern that I heard from

0:16.3

their responses was they felt most hopeful when they heard stories from other people who had made it through

0:24.0

the hardship, the challenge, whatever the situation was.

0:27.2

And it became abundantly clearer that we become more hopeful and therefore clear thinking

0:35.0

and resilient in community.

0:37.7

So I definitely have hope in humanity's capacity to wake up and be kind and take everyone

0:45.8

into consideration.

0:46.9

And I don't foresee the next decade getting any less complicated for us.

0:54.4

Doable and growthful, but resoundingly complex.

0:59.1

So I suggest, this is really what I'm on my soapbox about all the time, that we simplify

1:04.5

and we go deeper and we do it together because you deserve a really happy nervous system, even when you're not

1:14.2

emotionally happy about what's going on in the world. And this is why I have created the heart-centered

1:21.3

collective. I have been holding the space, if you want to put it that way, for five years. And I have just

1:29.8

gotten clearer and more useful, if I do say so. And the community is sophisticated and beautiful.

1:37.2

And we have newbies and people who have been around the cosmic block. It is a space for really

1:43.9

deep, but very practical, mind,

1:46.8

body, spirit care. So if you're new to the path and someone just sent you this podcast and said,

1:54.6

this Danielle chick, I have space for you. If you have done the tantra and the inner child work and the shadow dance,

2:03.0

I have lots you will resonate with. And if you have been hovering and listening to my stuff

2:08.8

and reading my weekly newsletter called The Sacred, if you've been with me since the days when I just

2:14.4

wore a really heavy black eyeliner and I was preaching about the

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