Dare to Doubt: Alice Grecyzn Part 1

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A Little Bit Culty – If you’ve ever felt trapped by the dictates of a high-demand group or an expression of religion that no longer felt true; or you find yourself feeling lonely and abandoned after a loss of faith, Alice Grecyzn has your back. The author of Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare & Sexual Purity joins Sarah and Nippy to speak about her painful but rewarding journey out of Evangelical Christianity, what it means to recover from religious trauma, and what’s rotten at the core about purity culture. About Today’s Guest: Alice Greczyn is an actress, author, and founder of Dare to Doubt. Midwest-raised and LA-based, Alice's nomadic childhood moved her around the United States until her modeling career as a teenager led to an acting career in Hollywood. She’s fascinated by the subjective experience of life, which she explores through acting and storytelling. Her own story includes a painful yet rewarding transition from Christianity to atheism, a journey that inspired her to found DaretoDoubt.org, a resource site for people detaching from belief systems they come to fnd harmful. Encouraging people to trust themselves and live courageously in their own truth is what gives Alice a sense of purpose. She lives in Los Angeles and loves hiking, traveling, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge. Learn more about her at her official website or get regular missives from her via her Substack. instagram.com/alicegreczyn instagram.com/daretodoubt/ twitter.com/alicefood twitter.com/daretodoubt ~ 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. ~ A Little Bit Culty is proud to support the #IGOTOUT project, which empowers survivors of cultic abuse to share their stories online as a catalyst for education, prevention, and healing. Learn more at igotout.org ~ For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts
0:04.1	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.1	Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors
0:12.1	are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion,
0:15.8	group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, I'm Sarah Edminson.
0:31.7	And I'm Anthony Ames aka Nippy.
0:34.0	And we just want to welcome you to season three of a little bit culty.
0:38.6	Once upon a time we were in a cult called Nexium.
0:41.9	We didn't know it was a cult when we joined because as a wise man what said,
0:46.2	nobody joins a cult. They joined a good thing.
0:48.7	For a minute it was a good thing. That's where we met, fell in love, got married,
0:52.6	started a family. The stuff of story books.
0:55.6	Even the part where we woke up escaped, became whistleblowers and helped bring it all down.
0:59.7	You call that shitcho a story book? Seeing the mastermind of Nexium
1:03.0	gets sentenced to 120 years in prison, that's a story book ending if you ask me.
1:07.3	The whole thing was captured on HBO's Hit Docu series The Val.
1:11.3	A new season is coming out any moment if it isn't out already by the time you hear this.
1:15.6	And I published a memoir called Scarred which is available anywhere books are sold.
1:19.7	And now we have a podcast.
1:21.4	Every week on a little bit culty we call on experts, advocates, fellow survivors and whistleblowers
1:26.4	to help us unpack what's going on in the cultiverse.
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