Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Expert Secrets - Emotional Intelligence
Terry Lindberg · 2026
🎙 Narrated by Joseph Thorson, per one retailer (Nextory) listing — noted with some caution since Terry Lindberg has several similarly branded "Expert Secrets" titles and one Amazon listing under a similar description pointed to a differently titled "Critical Thinking" volume, also crediting a Thorson-style narrator
56/100
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A focused take on anger management and CBT that some listeners found genuinely useful, though others called it repetitive and light on concrete next steps. It does touch manipulation and persuasion as an awareness topic — educational, not glorified, but worth knowing going in — and narration details are too uncertain for me to rate the listen.
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⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Touches manipulation/persuasion as an awareness topic — educational framing, not glorified, but worth a light heads-up for sensitive families. We still scored it 56; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Single-retailer narrator credit (Joseph Thorson) carries real uncertainty given this author's overlapping 'Expert Secrets' series titles.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness60
Craft & writing50
Originality45
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit80
Human-eye read50
Penny’s verdict56
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