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Killer Thriller with your host, Alisa Donovan.

Hey, everyone.

Elisa Donovan here, back with the new episode of Killer Thriller today.

Oh boy, am I excited about my guest today?

Today we are going to step into the real story behind a dramatization that still leaves a mark.

Escaping the Nexium cult, a mother's fight to save her daughter. So nexium

presented itself as a coaching and mentorship program, but authorities later described it as a

cult-like organization tied to sex trafficking, exploitation, and manipulation, and as one-time

leader, Keith Reneery, is now serving 120 years in federal prison.

Our guest today is Sarah Edmondson. Sarah is extraordinary, as far as I am concerned. She spent

more than a decade in nexium. She rose from student to coach. she ran and opened and ran a nexium center in

vancouver and then was later recruited into a secret sorority group quote unquote with nexium

called dos where women were branded and they were being groomed to have sex with the leader

after leaving nexium, Sarah made the decision

to go public and she became one of the first insiders to blow the whistle on this group. And she

helped to expose a system that prosecutors later described as criminal, coercive, and exploitative.

She chronicled her experience in her 2019 book Scard.

I cannot wait to speak with Sarah about her experiences inside Nexium and what she is doing now.

Let's bring Sarah on. Welcome, Sarah Edmondson. I'm just really honored to talk with you because I remember when I first read

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