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Deconversion Therapy

Gwen Shamblin and HBO’s The Way Down Updates Part 1

Deconversion Therapy

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Religion & Spirituality, Documentary, Religion, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9585 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Part 2 drops tomorrow. Let's walk down memory lane about the church cult, The Remnant, run by Gwen Shamblin and her husband, Joe Lara. We have a P.O. Box! Deconversion Therapy 188 Front St. STE 116-79 Franklin, TN 37064 Please Rate and Review. It means so much! Thank you. Find us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and our secret den on Facebook. Support us and get a newsletter twice a month jammed with deconversion stories, resources, religious news and scandals, and our personal rants. It’s an inner circle, so to speak. Check out our MERCH! And, finally, send us your true, funny stories for us to read on the podcast.

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0:00.0

Benvenitos. This is Karen, and we're on our fake break, but you're going to get an update to one of our

0:09.5

popular episodes about Gwen Shamblin. Gwen was the one who HBO did a five-part series, so we're

0:19.6

going to talk a little bit and update you about the last two.

0:23.5

And she ran a church that was focused around losing weight, and it's sort of a cultish church.

0:32.6

Very strange, very odd.

0:35.2

And you will hear Bonnie and I talking at the beginning of this about the two

0:41.2

episodes that HBO put up after Gwen Shamblin and her husband, Joe Laura, died in a plane crash.

0:51.5

I think it was last year. So that's what you get to hear.

0:55.6

You're going to hear our first episode and the updates right now.

1:01.2

And then in 24 hours from now, you get to hear the second part.

1:06.4

Enjoy.

1:08.5

Hi, guys.

1:09.3

This is Bonnie of Deconversion Therapy.

1:12.1

I'm joined by Karen.

1:13.8

Say hello.

1:14.6

I am not from this podcast.

1:18.4

Oh, okay.

1:19.5

I'm going to be interviewing you today.

1:22.2

You could tell the people how when you're looking at me in Zoom today, my hair looks really big.

1:28.0

It does. I thought you were wearing bump in Zoom today, my hair looks really big. It does.

1:28.4

Yeah. I thought you were wearing bumpets.

1:30.4

Oh, my God.

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