The Bad Therapist Show Rebrands & Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater

The Bad Therapist Show Rebrands

It’s not only products that can rebrand. Podcasts can, too. They do so to reset the visual look of the show, the hosting lineup, or the focus of the show.

*The Bad Therapist Show, the podcast hosted by therapist business coach and former six-figure private practice owner, Felicia Keller Boyle, LMFT, has announced a full rebrand highlighted by a new podcast cover art. The artwork is the visual heart of the relaunch. It captures the show’s mission through the three personas of the host herself: the therapist in the office, the business owner, and the human first. The Bad Therapist Show* advocates for listeners not to have to choose between any of the three.

Felicia Keller Boyle explains: “The new visual brings a sharpened focus. It speaks directly to established solo and group practice owners with an elevated conversation: how successful therapists can keep growing without sacrificing the lives they’re working so hard to build. Rebranding mid-June during summer, when many entrepreneurs take a natural pause to step back and review their businesses, the rebrand invites established therapists to ask bolder questions than ‘how do I grow?’ It challenges them to reflect on whether the business they’re in building is actually offering them the life they want.”

Boyle continues: “Three years ago, I started this show to help therapists build businesses they didn’t have to escape from. But the goalpost has shifted as we’ve grown. The therapists showing up now are more successful, more self-aware, and ready for a bolder conversation. This rebrand is my commitment to meet them there — with real talk about scaling, profitability, leadership, and what it means to build a practice that funds the life you actually want.”

Each of the three personas in the artwork points to one of the show’s core pillars: ● Business Growth: scaling, profitability, leadership, and strategy. ● Leadership & Identity: becoming the CEO and leader the business requires. ● Lifestyle & Freedom: building a business that creates more life, not less.

Together, the personas embody how Felicia Keller Boyle questions “good therapist conditioning”: the belief that a therapist’s own needs should always come last. The rebrand replaces that belief with a CEO mindset that looks at freedom, profitability, and personal fulfillment as compatible goals rather than competing ones.

Each week, Felicia opens honest conversations about private practice growth, marketing, money, boundaries, identity, and the realities of running a therapy business, specifically for owners who have already achieved success and are asking what comes next.

Through her Liberated BusinessTM method, coaching, and courses, Felicia Keller Boyle has helped hundreds of therapists step into their role as CEOs, increase profitability, and create multiple income streams. The rebranded podcast extends that work to a wider audience of established practitioners.

The Bad Therapist Show is a resource for therapists to learn how to grow profitable practices, create more freedom and build lives they actually enjoy. Hosted by Felicia Keller Boyle, LMFT, the show challenges the belief that therapists have to choose between helping people, making money, and enjoying their lives.

Each week, “you hear honest conversations about private practice growth, marketing, leadership, money, boundaries, identity, and the realities of running a therapy business.”

*The Bad Therapist Show is another example of leveraging what podcasting does best — *communicating to a niche audience effectively and with a strong focus on the target group — in this case, therapists in practice.

Boyle is a solid host with an engaging voice and manner. It sounds like she cares, which I’m sure she does. The episodes are concise, with strong sound quality, and episode titles — 5 Questions to Ask Before You Spend a Dollar on Branding — that are focused and easy to understand.

A word of warning that there is another show — Bad Therapist — with an obviously similar title. That show examines the shadow side of the mental health industry, exploring the charlatans, opportunists, and “therapy speak” trends that have populated psychology over the last two centuries It is co-hosted by Ash Compton, a psychotherapist, and Rachel Monroe, a journalist. Both hosts are strong advocates of therapy but outspoken critics of those who abuse or exploit its insights. Their most recent episode is about Dr. Phil. Need I say more about exploitation?

Kudos to Doctor Felicia Keller Boyle of *The Bad Therapist Show* for launching a rebranding. That’s always somewhat risky, but in this case, I believe it will pay off for the host and the audience.

If You Please… Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater Returns

In many ways, classic radio exists as the genealogical forbearer of narrative podcasting. With all the gushing over video podcasting, classic radio dramas relied on audio to tell their stories. Himan Brown perfected the art form that has become modern audio dramas and narrative podcasting. In essence, “he’s your daddy.”

*If You Please… Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater* is a popular podcast that rebroadcasts classic radio dramas created by legendary producer Himan Brown. Originally airing on CBS between 1974 and 1982, these thrilling, atmospheric episodes range from psychological mysteries and true crime to tense supernatural thrillers. The show features expert introductions and behind-the-scenes production secrets for a comprehensive, vintage audio experience.

These are classic audio whodunnits and suspense tales with full voice acting, sound effects, and classic storytelling. Each episode is introduced by scholar John Slavnney, who provides historical context before diving into the archives.

Radio producer Himan Brown created over 10,000 programs in his lifetime, with a vigor and intensity that kept him going for a century. His life and prodigious output are celebrated in the podcast series Audio Maverick.

Over 65 years, Brown produced more than 30,000 radio programs, including The Adventures of the Thin Man, The Affairs of Peter Salem, Bulldog Drummond, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, Grand Central Station, Green Valley, USA, The Gumps, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Joyce Jordan, M.D., Marie, the Little French Princess, The NBC Radio Theater, The Private Files of Rex Saunders, Terry and the Pirates and numerous daytime soap operas. During World War II, Brown worked with the Writers’ War Board, producing patriotic serials to aid the war effort.

When television arrived, Brown produced 26 episodes of the syndicated Inner Sanctum TV series, plus a daytime show, Morning Matinee. Realizing that “all these guys making TV, they have to have a set,” he profited by acquiring the studios in Chelsea; they were used for 35 years by New York TV production firms.

Through his non-profit educational foundation, Brown produced They Were Giants, radio programs dramatizing the lives of such literary figures as Walt Whitman and H. G. Wells, and We, The Living, fact-based dramas about the lives of senior citizens.

Brown died on June 4, 2010. He was a month shy of 100 years old.

I recommend that you listen to the trailer on YouTube. The images created by the animation are stunning. When I listened to episode one, there were two options. I could listen on an audio podcast feed, or on YouTube where the primary design image is displayed during the show. Either way, these episodes propel us into a past that gives us a front-row seat to classic radio at its apex.

*If You Please… Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater revives an art form that captivated millions for decades. It’s definitely worth the trip down memory lane. With [If You Please… Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater](https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/ifyouplease/), *you go first class all the way.