Episode 178 : Nikieta and Asha

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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*Content Warning : This episode deals with heavy topics such as religious trauma, mentions of child abuse, trafficking and SA allegations, and domestic violence. Please use caution when listening.* Nikieta and Asha were both members of ICOC, or The International Churches of Christ - a dangerous religious cult with ties to child abuse and running a religious pyramid scheme. Both were young women entering college when they were recruited just 8 years apart, in eerily similar stories. Now on the other side of deconstruction, they are working though religious trauma, finding themselves again and surprisingly owe the eye opening realization to a familiar cause. Show Notes Follow Nikieta - Website | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube Follow Asha - Website | Instagram ICOC Rolling Stone Article - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/international-churches-of-christ-cult-sexual-abuse-indoctrination-pyramid-scheme-lawsuit-1234654868/ Naked Pastor - https://nakedpastor.com/ Sounds Like MLM - https://www.facebook.com/groups/486766362100200 Kip McKean - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_McKean Church leaders concealed sexual abuse of young children, lawsuits allege - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-28/church-sexual-abuse-allegations Out of MLM - https://outofmlm.info/ Cultish by Amanda Montell - https://amzn.to/3Q7owx9 Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model - https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/ Ponzinomics by Robert L. FitzPatrick - https://amzn.to/3q16oJb How can you help? Report false income and health claims here: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ Or go to: https://www.truthinadvertising.org You can also report to your state Attorney General's office! https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/ Not in the U.S.? Go here: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/international/competition-consumer-protection-authorities-worldwide Support the Podcast! Join the Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/robertablevins Buy me a Taco and leave a note! 🌮💖 - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robertablevins Follow on TikTok for Anti MLM content, education, and humor! - https://www.tiktok.com/@bertalikewhoa Follow on Instagram for visual show notes, FAQ, and updates! - https://www.instagram.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast/ Like on Facebook and join our show fan page to jump in on the conversation! - https://www.facebook.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast *Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Hey, I'm Robert up Lovins, and this is Life After Emolim, a podcast where we worked in the stigma of failure in an industry
0:48.3	systemically designed for you to fail.
0:51.0	Join us as we dive into the real life stories of survivors, experts, and advocates to
0:57.4	debunk the common myths and fallacies of cults, scams, and multi-level marketing.
1:07.4	Hey, Hunbots and Hunbrows.
1:09.2	I hope you are enjoying July.
1:10.7	It is already so unbelievably hot. But have the AC, we are getting solar, the roofers
1:16.2	are done. You'll know as there will be some episodes coming up where I have roofers and actually that reminds me in this
1:25.8	episode there's a little bit of a knocking as well I did my best to try to
1:28.9	minimize it but Kayla and I have upgraded our software and so a lot of these little issues will be able to take care of in the future.
1:36.0	But I record so far in advance that these episodes have not been recorded on the new software.
1:42.0	So bear with us. We're always just
1:44.5	trying to be better than we were yesterday. We're working toward it. So this
1:48.1	episode that you're about to listen to seriously is really an incredible episode. It was a joy to edit and to listen back on our
1:56.2	conversation and to laugh and to feel the dopamine and the joy of these two women and
2:01.8	how amazing and wonderful and passionate they are.
2:05.0	So I am so excited for you to meet Nikita and Asha first of all.
2:09.4	But also they are survivors from theCOC cult, which is the International Churches of Christ
2:16.1	cult, which there are some articles in the show notes to sort of guide you along with some of the things that we talk about.
2:25.2	Fortunately for these women, they did not experience some of the trauma and the allegations
2:30.6	in those articles, but we do talk about it.
2:33.3	So it is mentioned in passing and in our conversation,
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