AJ was sent to the Running River school in around 2007, to attend kindergarten when she was five or six... more

Dr Tabitha Chapman is the founder of The Freedom Train Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides crucial services for individuals exiting cults... more

Dr Caroline Ansley is the founder of Centrepoint Restoration Project, a website that serves as a connection point, archive of... more

You may recall the name ‘Esther Rockett’ from episode 2, season 3 of this podcast, which was all about Universal... more

Tore Klevjer has been involved with the volunteer charity organisation Cult Information and Family Support (CIFS) since its very formation... more

Cecilia Peck and Inbal B. Lessner are the director/producer/editor team behind the award-winning Escaping Twin Flames, a three-part documentary series for... more

For his 2017 PhD, John Hunter put forward a hypothesis that offers insights into both the “transformational” experiences associated with... more

A little update from Sarah about what to expect with Let's Talk About Sects now that we're winding up the... more

In the last episode of season 5, we looked into a Boulder, Colorado community then known as Divine Madness and... more

Journalist Emma Lehman is the creator of the independent podcast Gooned, which dives into the Troubled Teen Industry or TTI –... more

Harry Palmer created Avatar after his presidency of the Church of Scientology's Elmira Mission ended in the mid-1980s, as a... more

Thomas Parsons joined the Twelve Tribes community in Hiddenite, North Carolina in April 2019, and left in November 2021. With... more

This episode was recorded live at Woodford Folk Festival on 1 January 2024. Many people in the audience would have... more

Matson Browning is a law enforcement officer who, along with his wife Tawni, spent years undercover infiltrating various hate groups... more

Yaakov Aharon and Shula Kirovsky’s lives in Sydney’s famous beach suburb of Bondi were lived largely separate from mainstream society,... more

Rachel Bernstein is an LA-based therapist who has specialized in cult intervention and re-acclimation for over 30 years. She serves on... more

Xenos was originally set up as a leaderless group that rejected the structures and trappings of mainstream churches. Springing forth... more

Xenos was originally set up as a leaderless group that rejected the structures and trappings of mainstream churches. Springing forth... more

In many ways, this theatre troupe and Fourth Way school became the most secretive this podcast has looked into yet.... more

Andrew Pledger was raised in the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, and after completing his homeschool education, attended Bob Jones University.... more

Sarah is a cult survivor, domestic violence survivor, and a survivor of trafficking and modern slavery. She wouldn’t have been... more

Carol Merchasin spent many years as an employment lawyer. She has also been a partner in the Philadelphia office of Morgan,... more

Lisa Kendall spent the ages of 9-19 in The Move of God, Sam Fife's apocalyptic cult. Today, she devotes her... more

Guinevere Turner grew up in The Lyman Family, a group she now understands was a cult, but at the time... more

Gloriavale Christian Community has been in the news recently in New Zealand for court cases around labour and servitude, and... more

Divine Madness Running Club boasted some spectacular results in ultramarathons and became known for their excellent support teams and low-impact... more

Carolyn Millemon learned about a form of meditation called ‘Ascending’ at a weekend workshop in Western Australia when she was... more

Matthew Klein’s story is featured on the podcast Inside the Tribe, and Matt sat down with LTAS for a chat... more

Brisbane Christian Fellowship sounds like a fairly innocuous name for a church. But the BCF and its network of organisations... more

MOVE Philadelphia made headlines in 1978, when police and MOVE members ended up in a prolonged siege and a gunfire... more