Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

Trust Me is a weekly interview podcast about cults, extreme belief, and the fine line between devotion and delusion—told through firsthand accounts from the people who lived it. Hosted by two women who’ve been in cults themselves, Lola Blanc and Meagan Elizabeth, the show features survivors from groups like Heaven’s Gate, the Manson Family, NXIVM, OneTaste and more–sharing personal stories of how they got in, how they got out, and everything in between.

Each week, they invite these guests alongside experts who can dive deep into seductive leaders, the darker aspects of organized religion, and the subtler shades of groupthink and the psychology of influence. Trust Me explores it all with unfiltered honesty, dark humor, and a lot of heart. This isn’t a sensationalized deep dive into cults—it’s a compassionate, first-person exploration of what it means to believe, to belong, and to break free. At the end of the day, wanting to believe in something bigger than yourself is one of the most human instincts there is.

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Episoder(276)

Lindsey Williams, Part 2: Going to IBLP Headquarters & The Downfall of Bill Gothard

Lindsey Williams, Part 2: Going to IBLP Headquarters & The Downfall of Bill Gothard

Shiny Happy People's Lindsey Williams shares how Institute in Basic Life Principles leader Bill Gothard would recruit young girls to headquarters, the inappropriate questions he asked and physical bou...

21 Jun 20231h 13min

Lindsey Williams, Part 1: Shiny Happy People, The Institute in Basic Life Principles, and Meeting Bill Gothard

Lindsey Williams, Part 1: Shiny Happy People, The Institute in Basic Life Principles, and Meeting Bill Gothard

Makeup artist, podcaster, and former Institute in Basic Life Principles member, Lindsey Williams (who is featured in Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets), delves into the Duggar family connectio...

14 Jun 20231h 7min

Allison Miller - Interstitial Cystitis, Orthorexia, and an Alternative Medicine Cult

Allison Miller - Interstitial Cystitis, Orthorexia, and an Alternative Medicine Cult

A Million Little Things star Allison Miller shares with Lola & Meagan how she was once a client of a culty alternative medicine clinic run by a couple who claimed to know how to heal her chronic bladd...

7 Jun 20231h 18min

Jimanekia Eborn - Reclaiming Your Sexuality After Trauma

Jimanekia Eborn - Reclaiming Your Sexuality After Trauma

Jimanekia Eborn, sex educator, trauma counselor, podcast host, and founder of non-profit Tending the Garden, shares the traumas she's experienced in her own life, what her healing journey has been lik...

31 Mai 20231h 18min

Mubin Shaikh, Part 2: 9/11, Reinterpreting Islam, and Going Undercover

Mubin Shaikh, Part 2: 9/11, Reinterpreting Islam, and Going Undercover

In part two of their conversation with deradicalized extremist and former Canadian government operative, Mubin Shaikh, Lola and Meagan dig into Mubin's meet-cute with his now-wife (who was not Muslim ...

24 Mai 202355min

Mubin Shaikh, Part 1: Islamic Extremism, Meeting the Taliban, and Getting Radicalized

Mubin Shaikh, Part 1: Islamic Extremism, Meeting the Taliban, and Getting Radicalized

Mubin Shaikh, deradicalized Islamic extremist and former security intelligence & counter-terrorism operative, discusses his upbringing balancing secular and Muslim life in Toronto, the party he threw ...

17 Mai 20231h

Jennings Brown & Justice - Liana Shanti's Conspiracy Sisterhood

Jennings Brown & Justice - Liana Shanti's Conspiracy Sisterhood

Journalist Jennings Brown returns, this time with a guest who goes by Justice, to talk about a new internet cult leader named Liana Shanti and her social media presence, which targets women with welln...

10 Mai 20231h 24min

Kara Goucher - Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project

Kara Goucher - Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project

Accomplished Olympic runner and The Longest Race author Kara Goucher shares how she and her partner were invited to join the prestigious Nike Oregon Project and coach Alberto Salazar, how Alberto's me...

3 Mai 20231h 14min

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