Why I No Longer Endorse BetterHelp

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Paul reads allegations by the Federal Trade Commission about the business practices of BetterHelp and how they allegedly misused customer's private information. Based on these allegations (BetterHelp denies any wrongdoing and settled with the FTC for $7.8 million), Paul explains his decision to end his endorsement deal with them. Due to the financial cost to edit out past ads for BetterHelp (from over 380 episodes) this mini-episode is to inform listeners that even though all those ad reads still exist in past episodes he has walked away from his relationship with them. To read the FTC complaint visit their website. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2023169betterhelpcomplaintfinal.pdf

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0:00.0	The reason that I no longer endorse better help after than being a weekly sponsor of mine since 2017. I did it for ethical reasons and I've yet to
0:17.1	explain on the podcast what those ethical reasons are so I'm going to list them by reading a report from the Federal Trade Commission
0:27.6	that came out in the spring of this last year.
0:31.2	And when this news came out I immediately ceased doing ads for for better help and
0:40.0	one of the reasons also why I'm doing this mini episode is that
0:45.0	their
0:47.0	the ads that I read for them endorsing them
0:51.0	appear in over 380 episodes and I do not have the financial ability to hire an
1:00.8	editor to go back through and edit all of those out. So really kind of my only option is to put this disclaimer out there.
1:11.7	So if you are listening to an old episode and I'm endorsing
1:16.8	better help in it just know that that I no longer stand by that.
1:24.0	And so I'm going to read this.
1:26.9	This is on the Federal Trade Commission website.
1:31.8	And I'm going to read the complaint and it writes the Federal Trade Commission
1:38.0	having reason to believe that Better Help Incorporated a corporation has violated the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act
1:46.8	and it appearing to the Commission that this proceeding is in the public interest, Alleges.
1:54.7	Respondent Better Help Incorporated, also doing businesses,
1:58.2	compile Incorporated, my therapist,
2:01.1	teen counseling, faithful counseling, pride counseling,
2:05.1	I counseling, Regain, Antareputea is a Delaware corporation with its principal
2:12.1	officer place of business.
2:14.0	And then it gives the address.
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