111: [Liz Iacuzzi] Do Not Let It Dim Your Flame
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Liz Iacuzzi is an athlete, writer, performer, and personality who focuses on exploring uncomfortable subject matter through comedy. However, it wasn’t until extricating herself from an acting class-turned-cult that she would eventually discover her next passion: educating the masses about cultic abuse. She does so on her podcast, Was I in a Cult? on which she helps other cult survivors share their stories for awareness. We are so grateful Liz was willing to share her journey with us today, especially because it is one of the first times she’s publicly divulged it at-length.
Was I in a Cult? Podcast: https://www.wasiinacult.com/
Was I in a Cult? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wasiinacult/
Liz's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/theiacuzzi
For a list of resources and related non-profit organizations, please visit http://somethingwaswrong.com/resources
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| 0:00.0 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:04.3 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, |
| 0:07.0 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:13.6 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com |
| 0:20.6 | forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:26.1 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:34.8 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. Liz Ayakousy is an athlete, writer, performer, and personality who focuses on exploring uncomfortable subject matter |
| 1:13.1 | through comedy. However, it wasn't until extricating herself from an acting class turned |
| 1:19.5 | cult that she would eventually discover her next passion, educating the masses about cultic |
| 1:25.6 | abuse. She does so as co-host on the podcast, |
| 1:29.7 | Was I in a cult, |
| 1:31.1 | on which she helps other cult survivors |
| 1:33.2 | share their stories for awareness. |
| 1:36.3 | The Broken Cycle Media team is so grateful |
| 1:38.5 | that Liz was willing to share her journey with us today, |
| 1:41.6 | especially because it's one of the first times |
| 1:43.8 | she's publicly |
| 1:44.6 | divulged it at length. |
| 1:49.9 | Hi, everyone. I'm Liz Iyakusi. I'm a comedy writer and a podcaster about cults because I was in a |
| 1:58.5 | cult. It's funny because on our show I am the interviewer and I'm rarely |
| 2:03.0 | on this side of it. In fact, we still have yet to interview me from my own show, which we are doing |
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