Endogenous Cult: “252 Consequences and Counting”
Was I In A Cult?
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest, Sara, didn’t just wear a cult uniform—she sewed it. Raised in a conservative faith that slowly morphed into a cult, Sara’s life went from dairy cows and barefoot summers to head coverings, spiritual “consequences,” and Levitical purity laws enforced with spray bottles and shame.
What started as a desire to live a devout and simple life spiraled into isolation, abuse, and an absurd set of rules that dictated everything from her hair part to her menstrual cycle. Her story—equal parts heartbreaking, enraging, and at times darkly hilarious—includes butchering chickens in the dark, scraping cowhides in the cold, and somehow finding her way to freedom, laughter, and ice cream cones.
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| 0:00.0 | The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely |
| 0:04.5 | belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts, |
| 0:09.5 | the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates. |
| 0:14.5 | You start thinking that we're doing this really good thing right now because we're establishing this |
| 0:22.6 | in truth here. But I'm a mom with six children and a husband. I am so lonely. I was treated so poorly. |
| 0:32.4 | I was afraid of what was going to happen. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome back to was I an occult. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm Tyler Riesam. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello, and I'm Liz Iikuzi. |
| 0:52.4 | And today's story, guys, it's not only wild. |
| 0:53.3 | It's got layers. |
| 0:54.8 | Fabric layers. |
| 0:58.6 | Literal and metaphorical culty ass layers. |
| 1:00.3 | Literal onion layers, in fact. |
| 1:04.7 | Our guest, a woman who once wrapped herself in yards of fabric and fear found her way to freedom, shorts, Shrek, tank tops, on a better kind of rocky road. |
| 1:10.0 | The one that's best licked. Interesting visual, |
| 1:13.2 | Tyler. That was a double entendre wrapped in a metaphor, served on a platter of simile. |
| 1:19.2 | Oh, is that so? Would you like a helping? I love our guest today, you guys. It's stories like hers that inspire the two of us to |
| 1:29.7 | keep making this show. So she first reached out as a fan and she appreciated the humor used, |
| 1:36.1 | which she said helped her in her own healing journey. And then she shared her story with me |
| 1:41.5 | and I was in awe, not just by her story, but by her strength |
| 1:46.2 | in telling it. |
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