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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 186: Cults vs. Religions with Rachel Bernstein

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Join Lindsay as she interviews cult expert and therapist Rachel Bernstein, who was recently featured on the new Starz documentary, Seduced. Links mentioned in this podcast: Rachel’s website IndoctriNATION podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year Pologami podcast. I'm your host Lindsay and it is so great to talk to all of you again today. Today I have a really exciting interview

0:40.0

planned. Like I've mentioned earlier, as I wind down on this particular project and this podcast,

0:46.4

I am going to use my time, energy, and effort and platform to help give resources to folks who

0:53.8

have been changed by this podcast. I realize

0:57.3

that this podcast has affected people's lives in ways that are hard for me to even understand.

1:02.7

I know it's certainly affected my life. So we're going to be focusing on the resources that exist

1:07.7

for folks. I don't want to just deconstruct everything and then leave you

1:11.0

with nothing. So we've got resources coming. We've got experts coming. We also have people that are

1:16.4

still interested in sharing their story, their history, their experience. So we'll still have

1:20.4

the history that you have come to love about this podcast. But today is a really special interview.

1:25.2

I'm happy to interview the host of the indoctrination podcast, Rachel Bernstein. You might have seen Rachel Bernstein on

1:32.1

Star's new limited series about the nexium cult called Seduced, the story of India

1:38.3

Oxenberg as she leaves the nexium cult. Rachel is considered one of the foremost cult experts, cult therapists in the

1:46.4

country. And I'm really, really happy that she came on to this podcast and is extending her

1:52.3

resources. So I'm going to give you to our Zoom interview in just a minute. But if you're listening,

1:56.6

I'd recommend you check out her podcast, uh, indoctrination. And a special thanks to Jolie Holland,

2:02.3

who is a mutual friend between Rachel and I and set this interview up. If you haven't listened to

2:07.2

Jolie's music, we use it on the Sunstone podcast. Jolie Holland is an excellent artist. You can watch

2:12.2

her tiny desk concert at MPR or just check out our music at Jolielland.com. So thank you, Jolie. You're fantastic.

2:19.4

And thank you, Rachel, for coming on the Year of Pologamie podcast.

2:27.9

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Pallagamy podcast. I'm your host, Lindsay.

2:33.1

And today I am really excited and honored to

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