Rude Awakening: Sarah Landry On Nithyananda & Other Nightmares (Part 2)
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: Discussions of child abuse and sexual assault. Listener discretion advised.
Here’s the second part of our conversation with Sarah Landry who shares what it’s like to face down the very online army she helped create for the so-called guru Nithyananda after going wide with explosive accusations of rape, child abuse, and a whole sordid cornucopia of culty shit.
Show notes:
Sarah Landry on YouTube, Instagram & Twitter
My Daughter Joined a Cult: 3-part VICE Doc Trailer (Discovery+, Amazon Prime)
Republic World Article by Pooja Prasanna: “Former Nithyananda Aide Narrates Horrifying Brutality Against Children”
Gizmodo Article by Jed Oelbaum: “She Built a Shady Guru’s YouTube Army. Now She’s His Fiercest Critic—But Who Will Believe Her?”
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts |
| 0:04.1 | and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion |
| 0:13.2 | and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, |
| 0:17.6 | business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that seems like a great thing at first |
| 0:35.6 | goes to the dark side and takes you with it. I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. Sarah and I met, fell in love and a, quote, |
| 0:45.2 | self-help organization that turned out to be a mega cult cult nexium. |
| 0:50.3 | Heard of it? We got out of there together and on our way out we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.6 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a docu-series called the VAL on HBO |
| 0:59.6 | and also on the front page of a newspaper. New York Times, babe. |
| 1:03.6 | Right. Have you heard of it? Each week on a little bit culty we talk with other former cult members |
| 1:08.4 | and whistleblowers plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.6 | We also turn the mic over to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share on |
| 1:17.3 | recovering from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging narcissist. |
| 1:22.8 | There's always something to learn about the cultiverse. Be sure to subscribe to a little bit culty |
| 1:27.6 | so you don't miss an episode. Find us on Instagram and at a littlebitculty.com. |
| 1:44.6 | Welcome back everybody. Here's part two of our chat with Sarah Landry who helped build a YouTube |
| 1:52.9 | kingdom for her shady guru and is now whistleblowing her little heart out. |
| 1:56.3 | See our full show notes for more of the backstory if you haven't heard part one |
| 2:00.2 | back on up and check it out first in just a word of warning. |
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