158. CULTS Part 2: How Intuition Can Save Us with Sarah Edmondson
b'Glennon, Abby, Amanda, and Sarah Edmondson continue their conversation:\\xa0\\n1. \\u201cLove bombing\\u201d and other red flag strategies used by cults to reel people in.\\xa0\\xa0\\n2. The jarring similarities between cults and abusive relationships \\u2013 and how in both your best qualities are used against you.\\n3. What to do if someone you love is pulled into QAnon, 4chan, or another conspiratorial culture.\\xa0\\xa0\\n4. The moment Sarah realized she had been initiated into a sex pyramid, and how she escaped.\\xa0\\n5. The responsibility she felt \\u2013 after having been such an avid recruiter \\u2013 to expose the truth of NXIVM and help take down its leaders.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\nCW: Discussion of cult culture and sexual coercion\\n\\nAbout Sarah:\\xa0\\nSarah Edmondson is an actor, podcaster, author, and cult-recovery advocate.\\n\\xa0\\nSarah has starred in a number of TV series, yet she is most recently known for her real-life saga escaping the multi-level marketing company NXIVM \\u2013 and DOS, a \\u201csecret sisterhood\\u201d within NXIVM \\u2013 which can also be seen on HBO\\u2019s The Vow.\\xa0Sarah\\u2019s memoir Scarred shares her true story from the moment she joined NXIVM,\\xa0to her harrowing fight to get out and bring its founder to justice.\\xa0Sarah co-hosts the podcast A Little Bit Culty with her husband Anthony \\u2018Nippy\\u2019 Ames, and lives in Atlanta with her husband and two sons.\\n\\xa0\\nTW: @sarahjedmondson\\nIG: @sarahedmondson\\n\\xa0\\nSarah\\u2019s resource page: https://www.sarahedmondson.com/resources\\nSteven Hassan\\u2019s BITE model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'