Listener Stories - Financial Abuse, Mormon Missions, and Coming Out

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Lola & Meagan re-open up the hotline to Stephanie in Los Angeles as she shares how she was stalked and subjected to financial abuse by her narcissist ex-husband, and Annie in Utah who discusses coming out as a lifelong Mormon, the hardship she experienced on her mission, how she left the LDS church, and her work today supporting LGBT+ youth. 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 Trust Me Pod @gmail.com 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 never have lied. If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!
0:32.4	Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about cult, extreme belief and manipulation from two great listeners
0:38.3	who've actually experienced it, I am Lola Blanc. And I'm Megan Elizabeth. And today our guests
0:42.8	are two of our listeners, Stephanie and Annie. Stephanie is going to talk to us about being married
0:47.5	to a controlling partner who eventually began stalking her, the financial abuse that she experienced
0:52.4	within that relationship and how she was able to leave and become independent. Annie is going to
0:56.9	talk to us about growing up Mormon, what it was like going on a mission, often going hungry,
1:01.8	and how she became depressed and suicidal because she had realized she was gay and did not feel accepted
1:06.9	for who she was and the Mormon community. Plus, how she came to choose herself and is turning her
1:11.9	own experience into a way to help LGBTQ kids going through something similar. Our listeners are
1:17.1	amazing. Alrighty, before we start talking to these gals, Megan, what's the coolest thing that's
1:21.7	happening this week? Amazon has hired a former private prison corrections worker as their
1:30.6	fulfillment center warehouse person. So a CEO from a prison? Yes, so an ex-prison executive
1:38.5	is running the fulfillment center warehouse training, where staff complain of zero breaks while
1:44.0	drivers have to pee and bobble. Wow, okay, so actually at the executive level, so he is running
1:50.8	this shit like a fucking prison, which also should not be run like a prison. Even prisons
1:54.7	shouldn't be run like prisons. And also, it's a woman, her name is Dana Howard. Well, Dana can
2:01.2	suck my dick. I know. It's culty in that they are not treated humanely like unto a very
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