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Escaping NXIVM

A Conversation With Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames About Escaping NXIVM & Mental Health: Sickboy Podcast

Escaping NXIVM

CBC

True Crime

4.7665 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Edmondson and Anthony "Nippy" Ames are cult escapees and whistleblowers featured in Escaping NXIVM. In this clip from the Sickboy podcast, Sarah and Nippy sit down with the Sickboy hosts to dive deep into their experience with escaping a cult and how it affected their mental health. The full interview and more episodes are available at smarturl.it/sickboycbc

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0:00.0

Okay, so I'm Tom Power. I host the award-winning interview show Q, and it's not just about art. It's also a podcast that delves into conversations with artists as to why we create at all. Like you'll hear boy genius member Lucy Dacus open up about why she's dissatisfied with the way we talk about love. You'll hear Kate Blanchett describe what it's like to forget the sound of your own voice.

0:22.8

And you'll hear how Coleman Domingo actually honed his acting skills in the circus.

0:27.7

Listen to Q with me, Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.0

This is a CBC podcast.

0:38.8

And we're saying now, yeah.

0:40.9

We go to please get all in my head.

0:44.0

We go to live.

0:46.2

We go to get all in a lot.

0:47.2

It's true.

0:48.2

We go to please get all in a lot.

0:50.9

It's two.

0:51.8

We want to please get.

0:53.7

And we're not, yeah. We go to please get all in a lot. In terms of the journey that you guys went to a loaded question. But like, what kind of

1:09.4

impact? What kind of impacts did this entire

1:11.5

fucked up, like wild experience that not many, you know, really not a lot of people have gone

1:19.7

through? Like, what kind of, what kind of impacts did this have on your general mental health?

1:27.3

Well, just to give you like timeline perspective, I joined when I was 26 with just turning 27.

1:33.0

I was there for my whole 30s and I left just before my 40th birthday.

1:36.7

So I had my, you know, all my 30s there.

1:39.6

And that's a real, there's a big pivotal life changes and shifts that happen in those times, obviously.

1:46.6

So, you know, Nipi and I talk about this a fair bit, like when we're reflecting in many ways.

1:54.3

And I think this is healthy, although slippery slope, we have to say, you know, I wouldn't change a thing because here we are.

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