Bonus Drop: Dr. Laura Richards & Lisa Bilyeu on Cults, Control & Dirty Diddy Secrets
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re diving deep into the twisted world of coercive control with the one and only Dr. Laura Richards – renowned criminal behavioral analyst, podcaster, and global expert on stalking, coercive control, and violent crime. We’re also joined by Lisa Bilyeu, host of Women of Impact and queen of calling out BS wherever it lurks.
Dr. Laura breaks down how cult leaders, predators, and power-hungry narcissists (looking at you, Sean Combs) use tactics straight out of the coercive control playbook to groom, manipulate, and dominate victims. We’re talking about how the “nice guy” veneer slowly erodes, why women like Christina Corom end up as right-hand enforcers, and why media still struggles to call out abusive power structures for what they are.
We also get into:
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Why grooming is always strategic, never accidental
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The eerie parallels between Keith Raniere, Sean Combs, and other culty figures
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The hidden dangers of female lieutenants like Nancy Salzman, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Christina Coram
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How to spot coercive control before it becomes your entire world
It’s a masterclass in manipulation, and a reminder that cult tactics aren’t confined to creepy compounds in Upstate New York. They’re happening in boardrooms, bedrooms, and billionaire circles everywhere.
Catch more of Dr. Laura Richards on the Crime Analyst Podcast https://www.crime-analyst.com
or Crime Analyst Squad www.patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst
Or on Instagram @laurarichards999 and @crimeanalyst
For more information and resources, the following sites can be accessed:
https://www.dashriskchecklist.com/
And don’t miss Lisa Bilyeu’s Women of Impact for your weekly dose of female empowerment.
After this one, you’ll never hear “It’s All About the Benjamins” the same way.
Also… let it be known that:
The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.
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CREDITS:
Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames
Production Partner: Amphibian.Media
Co-Creator: Jess Tardy
Associate producers: Amanda Zaremba and Matt Stroud of Amphibian.Media
Audio production: Red Caiman Studios
Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin
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| 0:41.7 | group, club, organization, business, individual, anyone, or anything. I'm Sarah Edmondson. And I'm Anthony Nippy Ames, and this is A Little Bit Calty. |
| 1:00.5 | Cults are commonplace now. From fandums to fads, we're examining them all. We look at what happens |
| 1:05.1 | when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad. Every week we chat with survivors, experts, and whistleblowers for real culty |
| 1:12.8 | stories told directly by the people who lived through them, because we want you to learn a few |
| 1:17.2 | things that we've had to learn the hard way. For example, if you think you're too smart to get sucked |
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