My beef with this show has been the same throughout my posting -Life Coach does not equal Therapist.
Iguana and Rhonda have repeatedly put themselves out there as therapists. Irregardless if they did it for ratings or money, they have both stated time and time again it was meaningful, authentic and real to them. I don't believe that.
You brought up some points which I specifically answered - no I didn't know Iguana before and no, I don't believe she was mainstreamed known before SO. No, I don't think her popularity was such that it saved the SO show (obviously did not). And no, I don't believe she is capable of helping anyone - let alone offering advice on men (when she was in an adulterous relationship) or with dieting (when she is as big as Jill) or with raising children (when she has written and spoken of her own children in terms that I wouldn't have wanted her as MY mother).
Just calling them as I see them.
Iguana = Fake. It's all the pulpit-preaching, pass the hat, sign up to my spiritual university and become a Life Coach malarky that has been going on for centuries. It's called selling Snake Oil.