Religious Trauma and Cults: Sam Sellers & Elise Heerde on Healing After High Control Churches (Part 1)
Sam Sellers and Elise Heerde of Religious Trauma and Cults bring the receipts on growing up in high-control faith worlds, with Sam from the Brethren Christian Church, an independent off-shoot of the E...
6 Juli 42min
Michael Shamblin Black on The Way Down and Escaping Remnant (Part 2)
Michael Shamblin Black is back for Part 2, and this one goes to the darkest corners of life inside Remnant Fellowship—and the even darker corners of life after it. Michael walks us through the red fla...
2 Juli 1h 10min
Michael Shamblin Black on The Way Down and Escaping Remnant (Part 1)
Michael Shamblin Black joins ALBC to talk about growing up inside his mother Gwen Shamblin’s world, featured in the HBO Max docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. He refle...
29 Juni 46min
Corey Jentry on Selling Sanity: Inside the Troubled Teen Industry Cult (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation with Corey Jentry, we pick up where we left off and follow the long, winding path out of the troubled teen industry and the program founded by Bob Meehan. Corey shares ho...
25 Juni 58min
Corey Jentry on Selling Sanity: Inside the Troubled Teen Industry Cult (Part 1)
In Part 1 of our conversation with Dr. Corey Jentry, we dive into a side of the troubled teen industry that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough: the programs that didn’t need to kidnap kids in the ...
22 Juni 49min
Bring Me the Beauties: Hoyt Richards, and a Double Life in Eternal Values (Part 2)
Hoyt Richards is back for Part 2 with the escape story nobody knew they needed: love, coercion, a shaved head, and the unlikely guardian angel who turned out to be Fabio. After Frederick's death, the ...
18 Juni 39min
Bring Me the Beauties: Hoyt Richards, and a Double Life in Eternal Values (Part 1)
This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp.Hoyt Richards joins the pod to talk about the double life behind his modeling fame and his nearly 20 years in Eternal Values, the high-control group also featur...
15 Juni 52min
Where are they now? Mark Vicente on the Narcissist’s Playbook (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our “Where are they now” chat with Mark Vicente, he talks about Narcissist’s Playbook and the emotional toll of spending five years documenting narcissistic abuse and expanding that work ...
11 Juni 42min
