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What Really Happened?

S3 [7] NXIVM Sex Cult

What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

NXIVM claimed to offer personal and professional development seminars through its "Executive Success Programs". But in reality it was a a cult and a pyramid scheme that brainwashed and blackmailed women into being sex slaves. GUESTS: Sarah Edmondson, author of Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life Rick Alan Ross, author of Cults Inside Out: How People Get in and Can Get Out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to season three of what really happened, produced by Dwayne Johnson, Danny Garcia, Brian

0:06.7

Gowertz, and Cadenes Thirteen.

0:09.3

It's written and hosted by me, Andrew Janks, and this episode co-written by Alex Pepper.

0:14.4

You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, at Andrew Janks.

0:21.0

The Executive Success Program, otherwise known as ESP, an eventually called Nexium.

0:29.0

A supposed self-help organization, where you can achieve your personal and professional

0:34.4

goals by attending workshops.

0:37.3

These workshops will make you a better friend, a better neighbor, a better employee, a

0:42.6

better person.

0:44.3

And luckily for all of us, what it takes isn't that complicated.

0:48.3

It's part of the reason why 17,000 people have gone through the doors at this organization

0:54.9

seeking to better understand and realize their full potential.

0:59.4

But once inside, what those in this organization find is quite different, and quite darker.

1:08.0

Welcome to Nexium.

1:12.3

Meet Sarah Edminson, author of Scarred, a fascinating book The New York Times called

1:19.4

Riveting, Disturbing, and Brave.

1:22.6

My background is Canadian, from Vancouver, BC, and my parents are both in the mental health

1:28.7

field.

1:29.7

My mom is a therapist, my dad is a counselor.

1:31.9

I was raised with very strong and good values, I believe.

1:36.6

And education, which university pursued acting, and thought that becoming an actor would

1:42.9

be the way to have a voice and have an impact on the world.

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