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<h1 style="text-align: center;"> <strong>The 2025 Feeling Good Podcast Survey</strong></h1> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Featuring Sevde Kalidiroglu,<br /> Director of Marketing, Feeling Great app</strong></h2> <p><span style="color: #000000;">This is the third survey of our podcast fans since the first podcast was broadcast on October 27, 2016, and the most recent was roughly five years ago. Our awesome Director Marketing at the Feeling Great app conducted the survey and prepared the report which you can review if you</span></p> <h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href= "https://feelinggood.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Podcast-Listener-Survey-Results-8_26_25.pdf"> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">CLICK HERE</span></strong></a></h4> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Essentially, we wanted to know a little bit about who you are and why you listen, and what you like the most, and least, and what kinds of changes you'd like to see. 183 of you graciously completed the survey. Thanks!</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We discussed many of the findings on the podcast, and you can click the link above for the full report, but here are just a few highlights:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Roughly 1/4 of you are mental health professionals, and 3/4 are general public. Men and women were represented equally. 60% of you are from the US, and 40% of you are international listeners. The age range is heavily tilted toward the older generation, with 66% of you above 50 years of age, and not a single podcast fan less than 20 years old!</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">And why do you listen? Nearly 90% of you are listening to improve your emotional well-being. This was great to hear, and consistent with the many emails I receive describing the help so many of you have gotten from the podcast. In fact, one recent podcast fan fired their therapist due to lack of progress, having made much more progress from listening to the podcast.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Many of you listen in order to learn TEAM CBT techniques, including therapists who want to improve their clinical skills as well as individuals who want to learn techniques they can use in their daily lives.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Other reasons for listening include:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: #000000;">Improve my own emotional well-being 87.1%</span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;">Learn therapy techniques 57.9%</span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;">Learn about mental health topics 53.4%</span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;">Support friends/family 49.4%</span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;">Entertainment 20.2%"</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: #000000;">One respondent wrote: "The podcast helps me apply tools to real-life problems that day—whether loneliness,</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">meaning, or mood swings."</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">If you click on the survey, you'll find a plethora of interesting findings, clearly presented. Rhonda and I are grateful to you, Sevde, for compiling this information, and we are all very grateful to you, our loyal fans, for sticking with us all these years! We will try hard to be mindful of the take-home messages at the end, which included:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Key Recommendations</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">1. Keep Live Therapy and How-To episodes front and center</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">2. Reduce episode length & polish editing</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">3. Bridge podcast and app more clearly (especially in the U.S.)</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">4. Refresh branding and improve accessibility</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">5. Add diversity in guest speakers and clinical styles</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">6. Prioritize topics like perfectionism, trauma, resistance, and self-defeating beliefs</span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">7. Keep posting webinar recordings as podcast episodes</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks for listening today!</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Sevde, Rhonda, and David</span></p>