What is Grooming?
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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00:00 Power imbalance in management/abuse of the power dynamic
16:29 How do I know if I'm being groomed as an adult?
22:36 What is the definition of grooming?
49:10 Am I having my needs met or being abused?
1:02:15 Are these red flags of grooming?
1:13:22 How can I recognize grooming from my childhood?
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April 17, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So, Burdo, a number of patrons wrote in questions about grooming, and I thought we would read those. |
| 0:08.0 | They're very interesting emails. Yeah. And respond to them, what do you say? |
| 0:12.0 | Let's do it. this is the psychology and |
| 0:13.9 | Seattle podcast I'm your host dr kerk Honda I'm a therapist and professor my name is |
| 0:18.1 | Umberto kasanya and I'm a Hobbit hypnotist so this first email is from a middle-tier patron, an anonymous |
| 0:25.0 | middle-tier patron who is a student at the University of Iowa, she says. And by the |
| 0:30.3 | way this email is about grooming and about cheating with a colleague at work. |
| 0:33.5 | And she says, I'm in a double master's program and one of my professional development classes |
| 0:40.0 | invited CEOs to the class to speak on a regular basis. |
| 0:45.0 | I had a business idea for a few years |
| 0:48.0 | and met with each visiting CEO to discuss my idea and refine it. Finally, one of the |
| 0:56.2 | CEOs really connected with my vision and offered me a deal. And the deal was that she goes on here I can use his |
| 1:06.8 | company's developers to form my product for free as long as he gets a specific cut of the profits once I start working with |
| 1:17.1 | clients. So Birdo as a Hobbit hypnotist I'm guessing that you have a lot of experience in business and yeah I mean you got to run the business well you got to still you know |
| 1:28.6 | Handle the finance venture capitalist that kind of so just a summary of what you're hearing so far. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah it's I mean on the surface this is a young person in a field looking for |
| 1:42.1 | maybe mentorship help a leg up from someone that's more of a veteran in the |
| 1:46.4 | field. |
| 1:47.4 | Later on she says she's 24 so yeah she's on the surface you know there's nothing in fact that's great if you can find a mentor if you can find someone that can can help you understand better the field that you're in that that's really valuable. |
| 2:02.6 | I actually have had a couple of those sorts of individuals, |
| 2:07.4 | but I haven't constantly, and when I don't, |
| 2:10.2 | which has been more than not, |
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