Stop the Presses: Vanessa Grigoriadis on NXIVM (Part 1)

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by Better Help. Vanessa Grigoriadis is an award-winning longform journalist and podcaster, having published profiles on the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Gaga, and Arianna Huffington. So how did she get tied up in NXIVM’s bullshit while also reporting on the cult? Well, the short answer is: anyone and everyone is susceptible to coercive control and persuasion, even members of the press. The long answer? Well, you’ll just have to listen to find out.

Make sure to catch the end of our conversation next week, when we drop part 2!

You can listen to Vanessa’s podcast Infamous here.

Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

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The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit cultier, those are the hosts,
0:03.4	and don't reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:06.6	Any of the, quote, fire content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors
0:11.5	or the opinion and are not intended to malign a religion, a group, a club, an organization,
0:17.3	business individual, anyone or anything, unless they're...
0:20.2	You're a douchebag, huh?
0:21.2	We're not doctors, psychologists, therapists, licensed counselors, or shamans,
0:25.6	even though you kind of think you are sometimes.
0:27.3	I'm like an urban shaman, okay?
0:29.1	Good talk.
0:39.2	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:41.7	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit
0:47.2	cultier.
0:48.0	aka, a LBC.
0:49.7	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:53.1	We've been there, and back again, a little about us, true story, we met and fell in love
0:58.2	in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:01.6	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Bow, now in its second season.
1:06.8	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART, the true story of how I escaped
1:11.7	next to him, the cult that bound my life.
1:13.8	Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happen to have a weekly date night.
1:18.3	Are we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control?
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