Lilia Tarawa: ...I Could Be Happy If I Followed My Heart

Nobody Told Me!

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Our guest on this episode, Lilia Tarawa, is an extraordinary woman who has lived a remarkable life. Born into the secretive cult, the Gloriavale Christian Community in New Zealand, she fled with her family when she was 18 years old. Since then, she's made it her life's mission to help others break free and see what's possible. She's the author of "Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life In A Religious Cult”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:14.6	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.3	It's truly an honor to be talking to our next guest, Lillia Tarawa.
0:20.7	She is an extraordinary young woman
0:22.4	who has already lived a remarkable life. Born into the secretive cult, the Gloria
0:27.2	Vail Christian community in New Zealand, she fled with her family when she was only 18 years old.
0:32.7	Since then, she's made it her life's mission to help others break free and see what's possible
0:37.0	in their own lives. She's the author of Daughter of Gloria Vale, My Life in a Religious Cult. Her TED Talk,
0:43.6	I grew up in a cult. It was heaven and hell, clearly struck a chord with people. 2.3 million
0:50.2	views. Welcome to the show, Lilia. Hi. Hello, Laura. Thanks so much for having me.
0:55.6	Thank you for joining us. Yeah, we're so excited. So you were born into the secretive cult in
1:00.0	New Zealand called the Gloria Vail Christian community. Can you talk to us about that?
1:05.2	Yeah, well, so my grandfather founded the cult. And I'll give you a brief background so everyone on the show knows exactly how it started.
1:14.0	He was an Australian evangelist and he was flying around into the outback of Australia
1:19.2	preaching the gospel of Christ to the people in remote areas.
1:24.2	And he was in very high demand as a preacher.
1:26.2	He was extremely charismatic and his name at the time was Neville Cooper.
1:31.2	And New Zealand churches invited him over to speak to their congregations, and they loved him.
1:38.3	And so he brought his whole family over to New Zealand and settled in Rane Uania, which is just on the outskirts of
1:46.0	the City of Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand.
1:49.7	And inevitably, he had a falling out with the pastor of the church that he was pastoring
1:55.8	at the time, and the church split, and he took half of the congregation and started up a community in Cust,
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