Hoyt Richards: After the Beauties
Hoyt Richards, a "Was I in a Cult?" legend, is back. After our original three-part series, Hoyt returns to talk about Bring Me The Beauties,...
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Was I In A Cult?
Hosted by Tyler Measom and Liz Iacuzzi, Was I In A Cult? is a documentary-style podcast showcasing individuals who have been in, and most importantly, successfully left a cult. Told first-ha...
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20 of 159 episodes[ENCORE] Eternal Values - Pt3: "To Thine Own Self"
A dear friend of the show, Hoyt Richards, who we had on the show back in 2023, has a new HBO docuseries " Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cul...
[ENCORE] Eternal Values - Pt2: "Vanity Un-Fair"
A dear friend of the show, Hoyt Richards, who we had on the show back in 2023, has a new HBO docuseries " Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cul...
[ENCORE] Eternal Values - Pt1: "A Man From Nantucket"
A dear friend of the show, Hoyt Richards, who we had on the show back in 2023, has a new HBO docuseries " Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cul...
The Organization: "Magic is Real"
As Cassie on Skins and Gilly on " Game of Thrones ," Hannah Murray spent years stepping into other people's pain, other people's stories, ot...
Hare Krishna—Pt2: "Thank You For Not Drowning Me in a Bucket"
*CONTENT WARNING: * This episode contains discussions of child marriage, sexual assault, domestic abuse, homelessness, parental abandonment,...
Hare Krishna—Pt1: "Who Gives This Child Away?"
*CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions of child abuse, child sexual abuse, rape, child marriage, neglect, religious trauma, and...
OneTaste: "Empire of Orgasm"
NOTE: This episode discusses sex, sexual exploitation, coercion, and sexual abuse. What happens when female empowerment, Silicon Valley star...
Swartzentruber Amish — PT2: "Promoted to Wearer of Jeans"
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses sexual assault. Not in graphic detail, but please listen accordingly. For 19 years, Lizzie Ens lived...
Swartzentruber Amish — PT1: "Promoted to Housework"
Many people picture a peaceful, technology-free life of butter churning, candle making, and horse-drawn buggies. But for today's guest, the...
Christian Patriarchy: "The OG 'Trad Wife'"
Four hours into a hostage situation between a man and a woman, the man walks out the door. In that moment, the woman's primal instinct kicks...
SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT & Shen Yun/Falun Gong is Still a Cult! Pt1 [UPDATE]
**PLEASE NOTE: This episode originally aired in Oct 2024. Since, there have been quite a few updates to both the cult and story. Tune into t...
Shen Yun/Falun Gong is Still a Cult! Pt2 [UPDATE]
**PLEASE NOTE: This episode originally aired in Oct 2024. Since, there have been quite a few updates to both the cult and story. Tune into t...
Jehovah's Witnesses: "Michael Jackson Was Just 'Michael' to Me"
As a young teenager, Darls Centola was searching for something steady in a chaotic world. What she found was the Jehovah's Witnesses—a relig...
Online Vampire Cult - Pt2: "404: Vampire Not Found"
If Part 1 was the seduction… this is the unraveling. By now, Celeste is fully in - the "true believer" phase we like to call it. The relatio...
Online Vampire Cult - Pt1: "Armand Has Entered The Chat"
At 16, Celeste Mott was alone, grieving, and searching - for meaning, for connection, for something that felt bigger than her small, suburba...
Boys Christian League: "Training Boys for God's Army"
Michelle Dowd was born into a cult that was literally training boys to fight in God's army when the apocalypse came. It started in sunny Pas...
OneTaste: "Was I in a Sex Cult?"
Star Stone walked into a fluorescent-lit room on Market Street in San Francisco where a man who looked like Mark Zuckerberg stroked a woman'...
Mormonism w/David Archuleta—Pt2: "Dev-OUT"
In Part 1, David Archuleta was the church's golden boy - the voice, the fame, the perfect Mormon billboard. In Part 2, that billboard comes...
Mormonism w/David Archuleta-PT1: "America's Mormon Idol"
David Archuleta was seventeen years old, Mormon to his core, and singing in front of thirty million people on American Idol. America saw the...