656 // The Cult of Natureboy w/ Survivor Jenaé Newell & Director Ben Zand
Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries
Crawlspace Media
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, crawl space listeners, we wanted to bring you an episode that recently aired on our other podcast, missing. |
| 0:07.1 | So for any listener who doesn't know, like you said, Tim, we have two shows, and we always want to air episodes of missing on crawlspace when they are appropriate and relevant. |
| 0:18.8 | Okay, and that's what we are bringing you here today. |
| 0:21.3 | So please make sure to like and subscribe and follow us on social media. |
| 0:26.7 | Thanks a lot for listening. |
| 0:28.1 | He took the women from the men in their relationships, and he just was like, this is my wife now. |
| 0:33.5 | And I was included. |
| 0:34.7 | He started to have sexual intercourse with women whenever he wanted. |
| 0:39.5 | And if you didn't give him what he wanted, you'll get shunned, humiliated, ridiculed, beaten, |
| 0:46.1 | hit, slapped. You know, it was just, it was a lot. So yeah, it was horrible. It was dark. |
| 0:53.5 | It was dark. It was, it was horrible. It was dark. On today's new episode, we are joined by documentarian Benjamin Zand and the great Jenae Nuel. |
| 1:29.8 | And Jenaa is a survivor of a cult, survivor of domestic abuse, narcissistic abuse. |
| 1:35.9 | She is a central focus of the fantastic docu-series, The Cult of Nature Boy. |
| 1:41.3 | This is easily one of the most powerful heroing and uplifting episodes we have produced. |
| 1:46.4 | The Cult of Nature Boy is a four-part investigative series produced by ABC News Studios and Zandland. |
| 1:53.0 | It premiered on Hulu on April 28th of this year, 26, so you can check it out now. |
| 1:57.8 | It's directed by the award-winning filmmaker Benjamin Zand, who is joining us. |
| 2:03.3 | We can't recommend this docu-series enough, so please check it out. And while you're at it, |
| 2:07.8 | check out everything Benjamin has going on at the very cleverly named website, www.zand. |
| 2:14.6 | And please follow Janaya on social and pick up a copy of one of her books, most notably |
| 2:21.7 | lesson learned, wisdom granted by the divine. |
| 2:25.0 | She also has another book called The Goddess Affirmation Book. |
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