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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to TrustMe. The podcast about cult, extreme belief and the abuse of power from two straight shooters who've actually experienced it. I am Lola Blonk and I am Megan Elizabeth.

I love that when you say straight shooters, it's like a little bit of a southern twang on it.

Straight shooters. And I would know because we've done this introduction 15 times.

Oh my god. I will be upset if we have to do this again. This one's the one. It's gonna work. We've had every technical difficulty.

No matter what happens, this is it.

Today our guest is the indubitably charming Natasha Mallon. She's the author of a new book called The First 50 about her first 50 sexual encounters.

And she is a survivor of a group she calls a therapy cult.

In part one this week of our two part interview with her, she's gonna tell us about how in a vulnerable period of her life she was dealing with a lot of trauma,

a lot going on. She went from working at Cafe gratitude to attending a landmark forum weekend and leaving because she realized it was bullshit to then meeting Stan,

the leader of the group she would spend the next several years of her life being deeply involved with.

You know, I used to have an aspiration myself to write a book about my own sexual encounters, which I mean, I'm glad that she did it.

I feel like this is a thing for some reason that women feel this like inclination to do.

And she did it good. I bought the book off Amazon. It came in the mail and it is like David Sedara's times 10. It's really.

Yeah, that's amazing.

Yeah, I mean, I can only guess based on how great she is at storytelling just verbally.

Yeah, it's very exciting. I can't wait to read it.

Anyway, before we dive in with her, by the way, that's no longer an aspiration of mine. Don't worry guys.

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