On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, I have Casey from the

Cult Vault podcast. How are you? Hi, I'm good, Brandon. How are you today? Thanks for having me.

Well, thank you for being here. And today we're going to talk about all things cult-related. But before we do that, if you want to be a guest on our Survivor Story episodes, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There, you can read all of our

instructions and either send us an email at Narcissistapocalypse.g.com or fill out our guest form and

press the submit button. And please do send it in the format that we ask for. And today, Casey, thank you so

much for being here. I've been a guest on your show before. And today, Casey, thank you so much for being here. I've been a guest on your show before.

And you asked me the question of how I got started doing this show.

So I guess the first question before we get into all things, cults, is, you know, what got

you started with the cult vault?

And tell us exactly what your show is in about.

So my name is Casey, host of the Cult Vault podcast, which is a long format interview-based show

where I speak to survivors of cults, high-demand groups, coercive control, extremism, and more things that fall

under the umbrella of what John Atack would call exploitative persuasion. And the show really

started during the pandemic with a four-month-old baby and a partner who

worked 12-hour night shift and me trying to find something in my life that I could show for

the number of months that we were expected to be in lockdown

for. So I had some friends that were learning how to do the splits and doing, you know,

social media, daily progress shots. And I was like, wow, I've never been able to do anything

like that. And I saw people who were learning to play an instrument. And I was thinking,

all of this time spent doing these things. When our baby was so small, he would only sleep

for short periods of time. And I would find myself just binge watching box sets of tele,

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