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True Crime News: The Podcast

‘Orgasmic meditation’ leader sentenced in forced labor scheme

True Crime News: The Podcast

True Crime News

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: Sexual empowerment or a new means of oppression? OneTaste’s founder, Nicole Daedone, and head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, were sentenced to federal prison after using their wellness-branded company to exploit followers. Prosecutors claim that the pair preyed on vulnerable victims looking for connection and community before weaponizing their fears and insecurities against them. Rachel Fiset joins host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A word of warning, this podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong

0:05.8

language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it

0:11.6

disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime News, the podcast covering a high profile and under the radar

0:17.5

cases from across the country every week. I'm your host, Anna Garcia.

0:22.5

Our case this week, I really don't know where to begin with this one.

0:25.9

Two women, leaders of a multimillion-dollar wellness education company,

0:30.7

focused on helping women orgasm during public meditation sessions,

0:36.6

have been convicted of violating labor laws.

0:40.5

Federal prosecutors say the two executives coerce some members to work for free or very little

0:46.5

money.

0:47.3

Prosecutors say that they used sexual and psychological coercion to control some of the members

0:53.4

into working without pay and or engaging

0:56.6

in unwanted sexual access part of their jobs. It's a complicated case. And it isn't about sex

1:03.4

crimes. It is about federal labor laws. However, it's impossible to separate the sex from some of the

1:09.5

work since the goal of the company

1:11.3

was the sexual empowerment of women. The women charge say that these charges are baseless

1:17.9

and they were motivated by negative media coverage of their controversial work. We're recording

1:25.1

this on Friday, April 3rd of 26.. Our guest today is Rachel Fissay,

1:29.7

an attorney in Los Angeles, specializing in white-collar crime, a legal analyst for some of your

1:35.6

favorite crime shows, and a dear friend of this podcast. Rachel, welcome back. Good morning. Good morning,

1:43.6

indeed. It's great to be here.

1:45.0

Oh my gosh.

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