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)

Elishaba Doerksen, Part 2 - Escaping Alaska and the Road to Recovery

Elishaba Doerksen, Part 2 - Escaping Alaska and the Road to Recovery

Lola and Meagan continue their conversation with Elishaba Doerksen, author of Out of the Wilderness: Escaping My Father's Prison and My Journey to Forgiveness. Elishaba discuess her family's move to A...

2 Nov 20221h 4min

Elishaba Doerksen, Part 1 - My Family Cult in the Wilderness

Elishaba Doerksen, Part 1 - My Family Cult in the Wilderness

Elishaba Doerksen, author of Out of the Wilderness: Escaping My Father's Prison and My Journey to Forgiveness, describes how her father rejected his well-to-do upbringing, became a hippie, and eventua...

19 Okt 202252min

Abigail Kochunas - The Gloria Gifford Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Abigail Kochunas - The Gloria Gifford Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Actor Abigail Kochunas and our very own Meagan Elizabeth share stories of what they saw and were subjected to as students in Gloria Gifford's Acting Conservatory including classes that would go on for...

12 Okt 20221h 22min

Sari Crawford - Synanon: Rehab Program Turned Cult

Sari Crawford - Synanon: Rehab Program Turned Cult

Sari Crawford, host of podcast The Sunshine Place, details her father's involvement with Synanon, the notorious drug rehabilitation program turned cult. Sari shares what led Charles Dederich to found ...

5 Okt 202257min

Charlotte Laws - IsAnyoneUp.com, Revenge Porn, and the Most Hated Man on the Internet

Charlotte Laws - IsAnyoneUp.com, Revenge Porn, and the Most Hated Man on the Internet

Author and anti-revenge porn activist Charlotte Laws details her battle against the infamous founder of IsAnyoneUp.com and the subject of Netflix's The Most Hated Man on the Internet, Hunter Moore. Sh...

28 Sep 20221h

Listener Stories - Financial Abuse, Mormon Missions, and Coming Out

Listener Stories - Financial Abuse, Mormon Missions, and Coming Out

Lola & Meagan re-open up the hotline to Stephanie in Los Angeles as she shares how she was stalked and subjected to financial abuse by her narcissist ex-husband, and Annie in Utah who discusses coming...

22 Sep 20221h 22min

Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber

Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber

Chris Bail, professor and director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University, talks about his work in computational social science, why social echo chambers don't work the way we think they do, how o...

14 Sep 20221h 22min

Cheryl Nichols - High School Teacher Grooming, Patriarchy, and "Passing the Trash"

Cheryl Nichols - High School Teacher Grooming, Patriarchy, and "Passing the Trash"

Filmmaker and subject of Freeform's "Keep This Between Us," Cheryl Nichols, shares how her high school teacher groomed her for a sexual relationship when she was 16, isolating her from her loved ones,...

31 Aug 20221h

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