Shaping Opinion

About Shaping Opinion

The Shaping Opinion podcast helps you see through the spin. It reveals things you may not know, and it exposes other things some may want to keep hidden. Its focus is on how your thoughts and attitudes are influenced to create change in the culture, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Host Tim O’Brien – author, senior media advisor and veteran damage control expert – empowers you with a fresh perspective. He comfortably takes you inside trending issues, stories and to the people who unravel it all through deep-dive conversations. After decades in handling high stakes and complex crisis management situations, Tim probes to uncover what’s real and what matters, and what will shape the future. Watch or listen every Monday wherever you get your podcasts. www.shapingopinion.com (https://www.shapingopinion.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Tim O'Brien

Category

news · news

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Apr 2022

Latest episode

22 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

144 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2025

   Bishop Joseph Strickland on Keeping the Faith

   Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses his traditional stances within the Roman Catholic Church and the unexpected situations that arise from them in this interview.

2. 

   8 Sept 2025

   Timothy Sandefur on Free Speech and Your Employer

   Constitutional law expert Timothy Sandefur explores the boundaries of free speech for employers and employees, discussing recent NLRB rulings and implications for workplace expression in this interview.

3. 

   1 Sept 2025

   Patrick Breyer on Proposed EU Surveillance of Private Messaging

   Patrick Breyer, former member of European Parliament, discusses the EU's proposed chat control regulation that scans private messages, raising concerns about privacy and government overreach in this interview.

Who has been a guest on Shaping Opinion

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

• Bishop Joseph Strickland
• Timothy Sandefur
• Patrick Breyer
• Bunni Pounds
• Ingrid Jacques

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

75 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Contact Shaping Opinion

Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.