Carmel Browne has spent 30 years as a licensed clinical social worker doing therapy, psychiatric assessments, crisis work, and listening to people lie to her face for a living. After three decades of studying human behavior, she has developed a fairly low tolerance for bullshit — professionally or otherwise.

Now she’s turning that trained eye toward the things we’d sometimes rather not examine too closely: the men we date, the red flags we baptize, the trauma we mistake for chemistry, the culture moments everybody is arguing about, and the stories we tell ourselves so we can stay in situations we probably should have left three exits ago.

Carmel is licensed in six states and holds multiple clinical and professional credentials, including LICSW, LCSW, LISW-CP, CSTIP, CCTP-II, CMDP, CGP, and CFI. Her work spans behavioral health, therapy, psychiatric assessment, clinical leadership, and the complicated business of figuring out why human beings keep doing the shit they do.

She is the author of the upcoming book Lord, Is This a Test or a Man? — a funny, clinical, occasionally profane look at relationships, attachment, red flags, boundaries, and what happens when very smart women temporarily misplace several functioning brain cells because a man is fine.

Licensed in six states. Unfiltered in all fifty.

And every episode asks some version of the same question:

Lord… is this a test, or is this a man?