How Do Cults Work?
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this reintroduction episode, we discuss how cults work with examples from Sadie's life.
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:08.0 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:15.0 | No regrets, no confusion. |
| 0:18.0 | There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways |
| 0:29.1 | welcome in to the leaving Eden podcast welcome welcome welcome we are here to discuss |
| 0:35.2 | cults religion fundamentalism and everything related to those topics. |
| 0:40.1 | Sadie Carpenter is your host. |
| 0:41.9 | She is a cult expert. |
| 0:43.1 | She is a cult survivor. |
| 0:44.9 | My name's Gabby Hikohen. |
| 0:46.5 | Sadie, do you want to tell the fine people in our audience what we are talking about today? |
| 0:51.3 | Today we are talking about cults and cult-like groups. |
| 0:55.0 | And, no kidding. |
| 0:56.1 | We're going to do kind of a reintroduction and talk about not only my background in a cult, |
| 1:01.4 | but also what I've learned since the last time we did a reintroduction episode, |
| 1:06.1 | because it's been roughly a million years ago. |
| 1:08.7 | If you're a new listener here, I want to give you a little background. |
| 1:12.4 | So six years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic, |
| 1:16.2 | Sadie and I started the Leaving Eden podcast as a fun project to tell the story of how she survived |
| 1:23.9 | a cult and how she got out. |
| 1:26.2 | But in those six years, and it's crazy to it has been six years. |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah, that does not sound right. |
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