Holy Hell: Will Allen on Unmasking Buddhafield (Part 2)
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! We loved chatting with Will Allen so much that we let the tape keep right on rolling.
Keep on listening for more about the Holy Hell filmmaker’s journey back from Buddhafield’s clutches. Oh, and here’s that My Favorite Murder episode we mention. Oh, and dear listener please be advised that just like the first part of our chat with Will, this episode contains some potentially triggering conversations. Please listen safely, and seek help if you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted.
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts |
| 0:04.1 | and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors |
| 0:12.1 | are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, |
| 0:17.6 | business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that seems |
| 0:34.2 | like a great thing at first goes to the dark side and takes you with it. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. |
| 0:40.2 | And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. |
| 0:43.2 | Sarah and I met, fell in love in a, quote, self-help organization that turned out to be |
| 0:47.6 | a mega cult cult nexium. |
| 0:50.4 | Heard of it? |
| 0:51.4 | We got out of there together and on our way out, we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.9 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a docu-series called the |
| 0:58.6 | VOW on HBO and also on the front page of a newspaper. |
| 1:02.6 | New York Times, babe. |
| 1:03.6 | Right. |
| 1:04.6 | Have you heard of it? |
| 1:05.6 | Each week on a little bit culty, we talk with other former cult members and whistleblowers |
| 1:09.6 | plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.8 | She also turned the mic over to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share on recovering |
| 1:17.8 | from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging narcissists. |
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