Cult-Proofing 101: Julie Bogart on Critical Thinking

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Julie Bogart homeschooled her five children for seventeen years and participated in a Cincinnati homeschool co-op of 100 families with over 300 youngsters. But it wasn’t merely homeschoolers that were a little bit culty in her life. With experiences of missionary evangelical Christianity, the New Thought movement, Scientology, and four years as an e s t devotee, Julie Bogart’s got some culty notches in her belt. Now she’s helping cult-proof parents and their kids by teaching families to think well. In this episode, Julie shares insight into susceptibilities for cult-jumping, our perceptions of “trusted” authority/expertise, and the power of wonder and curiosity.

We’re also reminded of the parental golden rule: seek therapy yourselves before subjecting your kiddos to any kind of psychotherapy. For a deep dive into those waters, rewind to our episode with Meg Appelgate who navigated the Troubled Teen Industry firsthand.

NOTES:

Julie Bogart has devoted her life to the triumvirate of writing, kids, and parents and is known for her common sense parenting and education advice on how to raise critical thinkers. She created Brave Writer, an online writing and language arts program that coaches folks to discover their own original thoughts. She has scores of professional writing credentials including a weekly column for United Press International, Brave Writer's Home Study Courses, and two books, The Brave Learner and Raising Critical Thinkers. Mother of five and grandmother to three, Julie lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.

Also…

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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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0:00.0	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, or mental health advice.
0:05.2	The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast
0:10.0	and are not intended to malign any religion group club organization business individual anyone or anything.
0:15.0	I'm Sarah Edmondson and I'm Anthony air quotes nippy aims and this is a little bit
0:30.5	guilty a podcast about what happens when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad.
0:35.6	Every week we chat with survivors, experts, and whistleblowers for real cold stories told directly by the people who live through them.
0:42.6	Because we want you to learn a few things we've had to learn the hard way.
0:46.1	Like if you think you're too smart to get sucked into something culty,
0:49.7	you're already prime recruitment material.
0:52.2	You might even already be in a cold. Oops, you
0:54.9	better keep listening to find out. Welcome to season six, a little bit culty. Sinking down to the depths of the ocean
1:05.0	hanging on to win my love.
1:09.0	If I let go but all I could leave, but I don't know. Welcome back everybody to this week's episode. I got a new mic everybody. It's called a
1:20.6	shooer mic. S-H-U-R-E notH-U-R-E because we're never sure on a little bit cold here.
1:26.4	I can literally hear my lip smack when I'm like it's not the microphone baby. You got a new set of
1:31.6	headphones. That's what I meant
1:33.0	headphones should we start that over just let people know how dumb I am.
1:36.0	Yeah you know honestly let's just leave it there in some ways you are I mean that was a total meathead comment but you are so smart in other ways
1:46.9	it's one of the things I love about you I'd love our is one of the reasons I'm
1:50.8	attracted to you are very intelligent, we have great
1:52.7	conversations and we had so many conversations after our interview with this
1:58.1	week's guest. I cannot tell you how helpful and timely it was to meet Julie Bogart, the author of raising critical
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