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You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

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eric squarisinski all right rachel thank you so much for joining me on the preacher boys podcast

i'm really excited to have you on i know your sister julia came on a All right, Rachel, thank you so much for joining me on the Preacher Boys podcast.

I'm really excited to have you on.

I know your sister, Julia, came on a previous episode and got to talk with me a little bit.

So I'm glad to hear kind of your perspectives and your thoughts.

Can you just introduce yourself to our audience and let them know a little bit about yourself and how you got started in the

IFB movement. Yeah. My name is Rachel Shansky and I was born into the IFB movement. I am one of

six children and yeah, I was born into it. And I moved around for many, many years.

And I was in very, I was in many IFB churches

over the course of my IFB lifetime.

So was, you know, for people born into it, it's, it's a different situation than people

who come into it at a later age. And, you know, there's a lot of things that we interpret as normal

or that, you know, it's just our day-to-day life as a kid, you know, growing up in that world.

And some people notice very early on that something was off. Did you, did you

experience, you know, positive emotions toward the movement early on? Or was it, you know,

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