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🗓️ 6 October 2022
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YOU CALL IT OCTOBER, I CALL IT CULT MONTH ON ALMOST ADULTING PODCAST!
This month focuses entirely on CULTS - where survivors of various cults will be sharing their stories and bringing awareness to the reality and prominence of these organizations.
This week on Almost Adulting Violet speaks with Celeste, a former member of the Children of God (now called The Family International). Children of God was founded in Huntington Beach, California in 1968 by David Berg, and was eventually dubbed by BBC as ‘hell on earth’. Celeste brings the listener on an emotional journey, giving vivid details of what life was like as a person born into Children of God, and her upbringing within the confines of the cult without sparing any details. Celeste then explains how she escaped, post-cult living, and her one wish for the people responsible for their heinous crimes.
TW: sexual abuse
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0:00.0 | Sex was a currency in my life that I'd always known and I knew that it would work. |
0:04.6 | And I found myself actually sleeping with a lot of guys that I looked back on and I remember |
0:09.1 | feeling very strongly that I did not want to but I did not have the language to express that. |
0:14.8 | Just because you left your mind didn't leave it yet, it's going to take years for your mind to |
0:19.2 | finally separate yourself from it. |
0:20.9 | It's file events and your favorite meme queen in the big city you didn't ask for but |
0:25.3 | meet up. Welcome to almost adult gang. |
0:31.5 | Hey, Ves sees and welcome to a brand new almost adulting episode with me, your host, |
0:40.5 | your best friend, your lover and your that I would say sister, your big sister. |
0:46.4 | Yeah, Violet Benson. This month we are doing it a little bit different. |
0:51.5 | Since every month I promise you a new topic this month I decided to go all out and do cold |
0:57.2 | month because it is perfect as part of Halloween month. I basically did a deep dive into all the |
1:04.0 | various cults you guys begged me to discuss and I chose the top four most interesting cults. |
1:10.9 | It was also based on your votes and how many of you really wanted me to reach out to these people. |
1:16.8 | Before we get into this, I do want to say happy October because things are definitely about |
1:21.4 | to get a little spooky around here. These episodes are iconic. I'm not going to lie. I'm very |
1:26.9 | proud of all of them. I'm very excited for this month and I think you will be as well. |
1:31.4 | From the Tuesday episodes to the Thursday episodes, it's going to be so good. |
1:35.6 | So yeah, this month we are focusing entirely on cults. It's something we've never done an almost |
1:42.4 | adulting all my previous podcasts to try to be crazy. But being the best podcaster in the world, |
1:49.1 | I am putting myself out there and I'm giving you gold. I'm constantly working towards being |
1:54.8 | the best and trying new things. So I would love to try this out with you guys. So we're taking a |
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