Psych Up Live

About Psych Up Live

Psych Up Live turns up your psychological perspective on life issues. With a wide variety of guests, Host Suzanne Phillips passes forward the latest in books, findings, and information relevant to your life and the world you live in. She explores topics as varied as family relationships, binge eating and violence on campus. In a conversational style, Suzanne and her guests translate the latest in psychology to exemplify ways of coping with child rearing, divorce, medical diagnosis, campus violence and social anxiety. She engages her guests with questions, often voicing her own thoughts or sharing related stories. What is particularly exciting about Psych Up Live is the opportunity for you to call in with your own stories, questions and opinions. Psych Up Live captures your attention as it considers life issues that will intrigue and inform you each Thursday at 11 AM Pacific Time, 2PM Eastern Time on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.

Publisher

Dr. Suzanne B. Phillips

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Oct 2015

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 436 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Mutual Rescue: How and Why Bonds with Homeless Pets Change Lives (Encore)

   Host Dr. Michael Breiner interviews Carol Novello, founder of Mutual Rescue, exploring how rescuing homeless pets transforms lives by addressing trauma and fostering connection.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   " Never Say Never – Never Say Always" With Susan Warner

   Author Susan Warner shares her profound journey through devastating loss and toward acceptance, offering insights on love and resilience in this interview.

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   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Taking Revenge a Better Way with Dr. Steven Berglas (Encore)

   Host Dr. Steven Berglas, professor and psychotherapist, explores a healthier approach to revenge, revealing how redirecting anger mitigates personal costs and promotes well-being in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Mutual Rescue: How and Why Bonds with Homeless Pets Change Lives (Encore)

Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now, many people, well, some people know about the early evolution of dogs from wolves and how it happens that dogs are really so attuned to us. Let's talk a little bit about that. Yes. So there's some amazing research that's been done. The leader in that really is Dr. Brian Hare, who's at the Duke Canine Cognition Center. And he basically discovered that, you know, dogs can read human gestures and and understand them, which is something that we didn't really understand 20 or 30 years ago. And Dr. Hare has been the leader in understanding that. But what's so fascinating about it is that the relationship between humans and dogs goes back some 35,000 years. […]

Who has been a guest on Psych Up Live

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Carol Novello
• Susan Warner
• Steven Berglas
• Molly McCloy
• Tom Wooldridge

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

2.0 / 5

1 ratings