Your Turn to Listen: Gwenith Kikkawa and Kevin Alexander on Resilience

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by Better Help. You know the old adage; person A joins an organization, person B joins the same organization, persons A and B learn organization is a cult and, after getting married, decide to escape. Wait, is that not normal? Well, thankfully Sarah and Nippy aren’t the only ones who’ve experienced this. Gwenith Kikkawa (they/them) and Kevin Alexander (they/them) are multiple-cult survivors, meaning they’ve experienced culty horrors not just once (like a great majority of our guests), but numerous times. Now, the couple has channeled their experiences into art via playwriting, songwriting, and more, narrowing in on how one can reclaim identity after traumatic coercive thought control over several years. #IGotOut - The Musical will be featured at the igotout.org produced Story Jam (taking place on October 21st, 2023) as the grand finale performance. The event as a whole is meant to provide a platform for #IGOTOUT stories from all sorts of survivors and advocates. The venue, The Improv Shop in St. Louis offers an intimate, comedy club atmosphere and tickets will be limited and sold on a first come, first serve basis. Use this link to subscribe and to have the first option on tickets. This event is a collaboration with the RetreatCon, taking place on the same weekend with the local non-profit Tears of Eden. Support debut production GoFundMe Follow #IGotOut - The Musical on Instagram Follow #IGotOut - The Musical on Facebook Follow #IGotOut - The Musical on YouTube Vocalist of Your Turn to Listen Aleyah-Erin Lennon 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). Also… Hear Ye, Hear Ye: 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. Other Links: Check out our lovely sponsors Join ‘A Little Bit Culty’ on Patreon Get poppin’ fresh ALBC Swag Support the pod and smash this link Cult awareness and recovery resources CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames Production Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will Retherford Senior Producer: Jess Tardy Writer: Mathias Rosenzweig Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin 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,
0:03.6	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:07.8	That's true.
0:08.5	Any of the fire content provided by our guest bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion,
0:13.6	and are not intended to malign any religion group, club, organization, business individual,
0:18.2	anyone, or anything.
0:19.3	Unless you're abusing people, then I have a problem aligning you.
0:22.6	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists, or wizards.
0:25.8	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly, informative podcast that helps you understand culty shit.
0:40.8	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:43.2	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippie, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit culty.
0:49.6	aka, a LBC.
0:51.2	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:54.7	We've been there, and back again, a little about us.
0:57.4	True Story, we met, and fell in love, in a cult.
1:00.8	And then we woke up, and got the hell out of dodge.
1:03.2	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow.
1:06.8	Now, in its second season.
1:08.4	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART.
1:11.5	The true Story of how I escaped Naxxiom, the cult that bound my life.
1:15.3	Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happened to have a weekly date night.
1:19.9	Where we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control.
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