Jennings Brown & Justice - Liana Shanti's Conspiracy Sisterhood

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Journalist Jennings Brown returns, this time with a guest who goes by Justice, to talk about a new internet cult leader named Liana Shanti and her social media presence, which targets women with wellness cleanses, women's empowerment, wild conspiracy theories, and grandiose claims about her supernatural powers. They discuss Shanti's followers' pattern of changing their names, accusing family members of abuse without evidence, and suddenly taking their children out of state. Plus, a house in Florida called Destiny Manor where a group of her followers have moved, how Justice's own loved one fell down the rabbit hole, and how survivors are banding together to stop Shanti. Trust Me is brought to you by Progressive Insurance! Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive! Got your own story about cults, extreme belief, or abuse of power? Leave a voicemail or text us at 347-86-TRUST (347-868-7878) OR shoot us an email at [email protected] CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!! bit.ly/trustmemerch INSTAGRAM: @TrustMePodcast @oohlalola @meaganelizabeth11 TWITTER: @TrustMeCultPod @ohlalola @baberahamhicks TIKTOK: @TrustMeCultPodcast

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0:00.0	If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group or if you've had
0:04.1	experience with manipulation or abuse the power that you'd like to share, leave us a message
0:08.4	on our hotline number at 347-86 trust. That's 347-868-7878 or shoot us an e-mail at TrustMePod
0:18.2	at gmail.com. Trust me, do you trust me? Trust me, I'm like a smart person. Yeah, I've never
0:25.6	lied to you. I'll never have lied. If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!
0:32.5	Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation from two juice
0:37.3	cleansers who've actually experienced it. I'm Lola Blanc, and I'm Megan Elizabeth. And today our
0:41.6	guests are journalist and trust me alumnus Jennings Brown and a woman named Justice who are here
0:47.0	to talk to us about new internet cult leader named Leana Shanti, who uses wellness, women's
0:52.3	empowerment, bastardized psychology concepts, and the positioning of herself as a fighter of abuse
0:57.6	to draw women in online. They'll walk us through what they've both learned about Leana's wild
1:02.0	conspiracy theories and grandiose claims about her magical powers and how the group of women in
1:06.0	the closed-off online community shrunts developed a pattern of changing their names,
1:09.9	taking their kids and leaving the state and accusing their family members of abuse without
1:13.5	evidence. We'll discuss how justices loved one fell down the Leana rabbit hole, how the pandemic
1:19.3	escalated the level of paranoia and isolation and the danger that the coffee
1:24.0	animas and lengthy cleansers present to both the mothers and their children. Plus a house in Florida
1:29.3	where a group of them have moved known as destiny manner and where things stand in terms of
1:33.9	survivors banding together and getting justice. It was a mouthful today, but there's so much,
1:38.7	I mean there's so much we we covered this. This woman is so interesting and so messed up.
1:44.0	The Jennings Daily Beast article is one of the most interesting things I've ever read in my entire
1:48.9	life. Read it immediately. Read it immediately. The link is in the description. Before we dive in
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