Wake-Up Call: Gerette Buglion on Everyday Cults

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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A Little Bit Culty – If you think you’re too smart to fall for a cult, this episode is your wake-up call. Undue influence can poison what starts out as a ‘good thing’ and turn it into a culty shitshow. Just ask today’s guest: Gerette Buglion. She was a member of an under-the-radar cult for over 18 years. In this organization, there was no tithing, no rules about where you should live, what brand of deodorant you must use, or what clothes to wear. Instead, far more subtle techniques were used...but they were powerful, and destructive all the same. When Gerette finally emerged from the cult at age 52, she asked herself, “How did I, an educated, caring mother, wife, and business owner become that lost and for that long?” She joins us to discuss her page-turning memoir, and her journey from hopeful therapy client to enthusiastic cult member to an anti-cult crusader. Spoiler alert: You’re not too smart to fall for culty shit. More about today’s guest: Gerette Buglion, B.A. Elementary Education and Special Education, earned her ‘Master's Degree’ in cult awareness education from the school of life. This training occurred during her eighteen-year odyssey with Doug (Fictitious name. Real person) who was the leader of the ‘Center for Transformational Learning’ (fictitious name for a real group, also simply CTL). Her memoir of her experience, An Everyday Cult, lifts the nuanced veil of controlling groups through its subtle weaving of personal experience with insight from recognized cultic phenomena. In addition to hosting retreats and her Writing to Reckon workshops, Gerette is a co-founding collaborator of the #igotout movement and igotout.org and co-host of the Everyday Cults, Everyday People podcast. Learn more about Gerette’s work and upcoming events at her official website. ~ 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. ~ A Little Bit Culty is proud to support the #IGOTOUT project, which empowers survivors of cultic abuse to share their stories online as a catalyst for education, prevention, and healing. Learn more at igotout.org ~ For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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
0:12.1	are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion,
0:15.8	group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everyone, I'm Sarah Edminson.
0:31.5	Hi, I'm Anthony Aims Sarah's husband, aka Nippy.
0:34.4	And we're here to talk about things that are just a little bit culty.
0:38.6	We were in a cult and we woke up and it was all captured in a
0:42.4	docu-series called the Bow on HBO, also in my memoir, Scarred.
0:46.4	And then we made this podcast. I guess you'd say we're technically a cult show now.
0:50.8	But not your typical cult show. We're not so much about the grizzly details.
0:54.4	We are about kicking the doors down on the shame and the secrets that make these
0:58.8	culty things so destructive. We're here to have frank conversations about how cool things can
1:03.6	cross over into the cultiverse. How does spot trouble when you see it?
1:07.1	And what happens when it comes to recovering from something culty if that happens to you?
1:11.0	Each week we'll call on experts, advocates, fellow survivors and whistleblowers to help us
1:16.2	unpack what's going on in the cultiverse. We're here to share what we know
1:19.6	on everything from red flags to resiliency and to have a few laughs along the way.
1:23.8	Because sometimes you gotta laugh. Thank God.
1:26.8	Now we have a lot to cover, so let's get this show rolling, shall we?
1:29.9	A little bit culty season two drops new episodes every Monday on the Acast app,
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