If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group or if you've had an experience with manipulation or abusive power

You'd like to share. She doesn't email it. Trust me, pod at gmail.com

If you think that one person has all the answers don't

Welcome to trust me the podcast about cults extreme belief and the abuse of power from two

Influencers who've actually experienced it. I am Lola Blanc. Why are you laughing Lola Blanc? We are influencers

I'm Megan Elizabeth, but you already know that I've influenced you

Are we influencing do you guys feel influenced? I don't know

I'd like to think so not really listen y'all today our guest is Jordan Harbinger the very popular podcaster and our podcast one brother

Today we'll have a conversation about the difference between

Influence and manipulation what he thinks makes people susceptible to scams and how he himself has been scammed

We'll also talk about the lava traction

Finally and magical thinking how to protect yourself from scams and Jordans take on how to

Ethically be a leader. It's uh really fun like snappy convo's clearly a professional. Yeah. Yeah. He's a good podcaster

He is he is but you guys I can't wait to tell you well actually first first piece of good news my film is funded

Yeah, Lola. I'm so excited. That's so unbelievable. I know a few of you

Donated and have not responded to my messages

Telling me what you want me to say. So I'm gonna shout you out. You just got to respond y'all also

Starting next week you guys. So May is mental health awareness month and in light of that

We are doing a series on

Rethinking trauma so every week in May and I know we haven't done like a proper cold story in a minute

But just bear with us here because it's gonna be super fucking interesting every week in May

We're gonna have a different expert on psychologists and whatnot about how we can think of trauma differently

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