Rad N Bad Podcast
af Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero from Hickory Learning Group
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Disruptors on Deck: Avoiding A$$ Clownery with Paulie Gloves
Disruptors on Deck: Avoiding A$$ Clownery with Paulie Gloves
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The Rad N' Bad Podcast by Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero isn’t your average ABA podcast, it’s a full-blown wake-up call. These two BCBAs from Hickory Learning Group are smashing through outdated norms and calling out the BS in the field. No fluff, no sugar-coating, just raw, unfiltered truth about what ABA should be. They challenge you to think, question the “why,” and push past complacency. If you're ready to disrupt the status quo and make this field better for clients and practitioners alike, buckle up, Rad N' Bad is here to raise hell and raise standards.
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- Disruptors on Deck: Avoiding A$$ Clownery with Paulie Gloves · 23 min. · Episode 1Your title doesn't make you a leader. Your behavior does. On Disruptors on Deck Ep 1, Sean and Mike sit down with Dr. Paul "Paulie Gloves" Gavoni (Ed.D., BCBA-D), CEO and Founder…
- Episode 55: Your Prompting Hierarchy Sucks and Here's How to Fix It · 43 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 31Somewhere there's a laminated prompt hierarchy on a clinic wall, and every learner gets run through it the same way. Sean and Mike argue that prompt dependency is usually…
- Episode 54: The Death of Parsimony: How Administrative Bloat, 30-Page BIPs, and Token Casinos Murdered Common Sense in ABA · 54 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 30In science, there is a foundational principle every single behavior analyst had to memorize to pass their certification exam: parsimony. Rule out the simplest, most obvious…
- Episode 53: The Middle Ground of NET: Escaping the Babysitting Trap with Precision Mechanics & Real-World Rigor · 1 t. 25 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 29Here’s the dirty little open secret in applied behavior analysis right now: the pendulum swung so hard away from discrete trial training that clinicians are terrified to even…
- Episode 52: Dosage by Tradition: Why ABA Confused 30 Hours on a Clock with Actual Clinical Science · 1 t. 57 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 28Somewhere along the way, applied behavior analysis took an intensely personal clinical question—what does this unique child and family actually need right now?—and turned it into…
- Episode 51: The Financial Chokehold: Killing the 60-Day Cash Trap & Beating Private Equity with Data w/ Ethan Schwarzbach of Flychain · 1 t. 32 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 27There is a brutal reality nobody warns you about when you sit for your BCBA exam: within 18 months of launching an independent practice, you aren't analyzing behavior graphs…
- Episode 50: Why Medicine Thinks We’re Arrogant: Rational Therapeutics, Clinical Isolation, & Putting Our Field on Extinction w/ Dr. Steven Merahn, MD · 1 t. 49 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 25For decades, the applied behavior analysis sector in autism has treated the broader healthcare ecosystem like an aversive stimulus. We built a fortress out of rigid jargon…
- Episode 49: The Other Side of the Table: When "Trust the Process" Becomes Babysitting (w/ Kim Lambert) · 1 t. 26 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 25We love to say we value lived experience. We talk constantly about assent, compassionate care, social validity, and person-centered treatment. We’ve gotten really good at saying…
- Episode 48: The Billable Hour, Driver’s Ed Ethics, and Making Therapy Unnecessary with Dr. Jon Bailey & Zachary Stevens · 1 t. 27 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 24Filing an ethics complaint against us would require actually citing the ethics code—and honestly, we’d appreciate the peer review. On this episode of Rad N Bad, Sean Yocum and…
- Episode 47: Facing the Anti-ABA Contingency with B.F. Middleton · 2 t. 38 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 23Why is our field so terrified of its own critics? When people critique Applied Behavior Analysis, the knee-jerk reaction across clinics, message boards, and leadership panels is…
- Episode 46: Hover Before You Land: Building Cross-Disciplinary Standards in Autism Care with Dr. Robin McLeod from NSAP · 1 t. 35 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 22There is no shortage of organizations in autism—we have associations, credentialing bodies, coalitions, and advocacy groups. Yet, the field remains completely fragmented…
- Episode 45: Beyond Clinic Walls: 1,300 Sessions & a 1% Cancellation Rate with Melissa Kozak · 1 t. 22 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 21Most BCBAs are taught that high-integrity care requires a toddler sitting in a clinic 40 hours a week, locked into a screen, and managed by burned-out middle management. Melissa…
- Episode 44: Who the Hell Built the BCBA Industrial Complex? with Dr. Han-Leong Goh · 1 t. 29 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 20The BCBA credential has never been more valuable. So why do so many new clinicians feel completely unprepared? Sean Yocum and Mike Carrero welcome Dr. Han-Leong Goh for an…
- Episode 43: Who The Hell Is Steering This Profession? (With The ABA Accountability Project) · 1 t. 28 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 19The multi-billion-dollar corporate takeover of autism services has officially reached its breaking point. Over the last decade, we have watched private equity firms dump massive…
- Episode 42: Who The Hell Is That Again, with Lou Sandler: The Illusion of Progress: Flashcards, Seismograph Graphs, and Real Industry Reform · 2 t. 26 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 18The Titanic has officially struck the iceberg, and the music is starting to stop behind closed doors. Following the explosive New York Times investigation exposing fraud…
- Episode 41: DTT is Not a Permanent Residence: Mapping the Real Middle Ground of Structure vs. Autonomy · 45 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 14Are we using clinical structure to build real-world independence, or are we just using it as an excuse for corporate and intellectual laziness? This week, Sean and Mike step…
- Episode 40: Who the Hell is Dr. Erin Moran? From Backpacking Kazakhstan to Dismantling Corporate ABA · 1 t. 15 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 16Most people in the tech space claim they understand the frontline trenches. They haven’t. This week, Sean and Mike pull back the curtain on the corporate contingencies crippling…
- Episode 39: No Man's Land-The Forbidden E-Word: Why You Can’t Escape Extinction · 39 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 13In this episode of the No Man’s Land series, Sean and Mike tackle the 'forbidden E-word' of ABA: Extinction. While cancel culture and critics often paint extinction as cold or…
- Episode 38: No Man's Land-The Myth of Ascent: Why Choice is Just a Contingency · 36 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 12Is "assent" the future of ethical ABA, or is it a clinical retreat into "fragile tolerance"? In this installment of the No Man’s Land series, Sean Yocum and Mike Carrero step…
- Episode 37: Who the Hell is This? Solving the Access to Care Bottleneck with Amol Deshpande from Frontera Health · 1 t. 4 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 13The ABA industry has an access problem, and throwing generic corporate software at it isn't fixing a damn thing. In this episode of Rad N Bad, Sean and Mike sit down with Amol…
