Latest Abuseofpower Podcast Episodes
#68: Sinasta Colucci – Romance, Racism, & Cover-Ups in Twelve Tribes
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 09, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part two of their conversation with Sinasta Colucci, Lola and Meagan dive into the dramatic forbidden romances he experienced while in Twelve Tribes, the racist doctrines that were kept from him until he was already committed to the group, and a big secret that the community leaders covered u...
Sinasta Colucci – Romance, Racism, & Cover-Ups in Twelve Tribes
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 09, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 68: In part two of their conversation with Sinasta Colucci, Lola and Meagan dive into the dramatic forbidden romances he experienced while in Twelve Tribes, the racist doctrines that were kept from him until he was already committed to the group, and a big secret that the community leade...
#68: Sinasta Colucci – Romance, Racism, & Cover-Ups in The 12 Tribes
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 09, 2022 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part two of their conversation with Sinasta Colucci, Lola and Meagan dive into why the 12 Tribes community believed Black people are cursed, a cover up that the community leaders kept from their followers, Sinasta’s theory on how the 12 Tribes are connected to the recent Colorado fires… AND t...
#67: Sinasta Colucci - Twelve Tribes, Farm Life, and The End Times
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 02, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part one of his conversation with Lola & Meagan, Better Than a Turkish Prison: What I Learned From Life in a Religious Cult author Sinasta Colucci shares his experience living in the Twelve Tribes communities. He talks about growing up poor in Detroit, living on a hippie Christian fundamental...
Sinasta Colucci - Twelve Tribes, Farm Life, and The End Times
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 02, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 67: In part one of his conversation with Lola & Meagan, Better Than a Turkish Prison: What I Learned From Life in a Religious Cult author Sinasta Colucci shares his experience living in the Twelve Tribes communities. He talks about growing up poor in Detroit, living on a hippie Christian...
#67: Sinasta Colucci - 12 Tribes, Farm Life, and The End Times
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 02, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part one of his conversation with Lola & Meagan, Better Than a Turkish Prison: What I Learned From Life in a Religious Cult author Sinasta Colucci shares his experience living in the Twelve Tribes communities. He talks about growing up poor in Detroit, living on a hippie Christian fundamental...
#67: Sinasta Colucci - 12 Tribes, Farm Life, and the End of Times
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - March 02, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part one of his conversation with Lola & Meagan, Better Than A Turkish Prison author Sinasta Colucci shares his experience living in the Twelve Tribes communities. He talks about growing up poor in Detroit, living on a hippie Christian fundamentalist commune, giving up his personal assets for...
#66: The Airborne Toxic Event's Mikel Jollett - My Childhood in Synanon
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 23, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsRockstar and Hollywood Park author Mikel Jollett shares how he spent his childhood in the drug rehab cult Synanon, how it impacted his family relationships from a young age, leaving the group only to live in poverty, incidents of violence committed by Synanon, and the residual impact on his adul...
The Airborne Toxic Event's Mikel Jollett - My Childhood in Synanon
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 23, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 66: Rockstar and Hollywood Park author Mikel Jollett shares how he spent his childhood in the drug rehab cult Synanon, how it impacted his family relationships from a young age, leaving the group only to live in poverty, incidents of violence committed by Synanon, and the residual impact...
#65: Jillian Lauren, Part 2 - Return to Brunei and Meeting a Serial Killer
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 09, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsAuthor Jillian Lauren shares what brought her back to Brunei after leaving the first time, her relationship with the Prince, meeting the Sultan, smuggling money out of the country, and how she became acquainted with the most prolific serial killer in American History. If you have your own story...
Jillian Lauren, Part 2 - Return to Brunei and Meeting a Serial Killer
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 09, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 65: Author Jillian Lauren shares what brought her back to Brunei after leaving the first time, her relationship with the Prince, meeting the Sultan, smuggling money out of the country, and how she became acquainted with the most prolific serial killer in American History. If you have yo...
#65: Jillian Lauren, Part 2: Return to Brunei and Meeting a Serial Killer
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 09, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsAuthor Jillian Lauren shares what brought her back to Brunei after leaving the first time, her relationship with the Prince, meeting the Sultan, smuggling money out of the country, and how she became acquainted with the most prolific serial killer in American History. If you have your own story...
#64: Jillian Lauren, Part 1 - Life in a Harem
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 02, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsYou're young and struggling to make ends meet. Then you get invited to live in the lap of luxury in a place far away... with no guarantee of your safety. Writer Jillian Lauren recounts the events from her book Some Girls: My Life in a Harem as the guest of the Prince of Brunei, including how she...
Jillian Lauren, Part 1 - Life in a Harem
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 02, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 64: You're young and struggling to make ends meet. Then you get invited to live in the lap of luxury in a place far away... with no guarantee of your safety. Writer Jillian Lauren recounts the events from her book Some Girls: My Life in a Harem as the guest of the Prince of Brunei, inclu...
#64: Jillian Lauren, Part 1: Life in a Harem
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - February 02, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsYou're young and struggling to make ends meet. Then you get invited to live in the lap of luxury in a place far away... with no guarantee of your safety. Writer Jillian Lauren recounts the events from her book Some Girls: My Life in a Harem as the guest of the Prince of Brunei, including how she...
#63: Banachek, Part 2 - Critical Thinking vs Skepticism
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 26, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsMentalist and magician Banachek shares how he exposed a scam by televangelist and debunked faither healer Peter Popoff in the 80s, why he fights against funding pseudoscience, and the difference between critical thinking and skepticism. Plus: he performs a trick on Lola and Meagan. If you have ...
Banachek, Part 2 - Critical Thinking vs Skepticism
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 26, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 63: Mentalist and magician Banachek shares how he exposed a scam by televangelist and debunked faither healer Peter Popoff in the 80s, why he fights against funding pseudoscience, and the difference between critical thinking and skepticism. Plus: he performs a trick on Lola and Meagan. ...
#63: Banachek, Part 2: Critical Thinking vs Skepticism
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 26, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsMentalist and magician Banachek shares how he exposed a scam by televangelist and debunked faither healer Peter Popoff in the 80s, why he fights against funding pseudoscience, and the difference between critical thinking and skepticism. Plus: he performs a trick on Lola and Meagan. If you have ...
#62: Banachek, Part 1 - Mentalism vs Psychic Ability
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 19, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsWorld famous mentalist and magician Banachek joins Lola & Meagan to discuss the difference between mentalists, magicians and psychics, how he became involved in a parapsychology research project called Project Alpha, and how you can become emotionally invested in something that you know is an il...
Banachek, Part 1 - Mentalism vs Psychic Ability
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 19, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 62: World famous mentalist and magician Banachek joins Lola & Meagan to discuss the difference between mentalists, magicians and psychics, how he became involved in a parapsychology research project called Project Alpha, and how you can become emotionally invested in something that you k...
#62: Banachek, Part 1: Mentalism vs Psychic Ability
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 19, 2022 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsWorld famous mentalist and magician Banachek joins Lola & Meagan to discuss the difference between mentalists, magicians and psychics, how he became involved in a parapsychology research project called Project Alpha, and how you can become emotionally invested in something that you know is an il...
Drew Amstutz - Surviving Conversion Therapy
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 12, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 61: Lola & Meagan share a heartfelt conversation with conversion therapy survivor Drew Amstutz about growing up gay as a pastor's kid, being forced into conversion therapy, having suicidal ideations, and how he coped and found a way out. If you have your own story about cults, high-cont...
#61: Drew Amstutz - Surviving Conversion Therapy
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 12, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsLola & Meagan share a heartfelt conversation with conversion therapy survivor Drew Amstutz about growing up gay as a pastor's kid, being forced into conversion therapy, having suicidal ideations, and how he coped and found a way out. If you have your own story about cults, high-control groups, ...
#61: Drew Amstutz: Surviving Conversion Therapy
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 12, 2022 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsLola & Meagan share a heartfelt conversation with conversion therapy survivor Drew Amstutz about growing up gay as a pastor's kid, being forced into conversion therapy, having suicidal ideations, and how he coped and found a way out. If you have your own story about cults, high-control groups, ...
#60: Amanda Knox & Christopher Robinson - Understanding Cognitive Bias
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 05, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIt's Lola's favorite topic. And today she and Meagan are joined by hosts of the Labyrinths podcast Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson as they dig into the world of cognitive bias. They discuss Amanda's wrongful conviction in 2007, spending four years in an Italian prison, all of the biases tha...
Amanda Knox & Christopher Robinson - Understanding Cognitive Bias
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 05, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 60: It's Lola's favorite topic. And today she and Meagan are joined by hosts of the Labyrinths podcast Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson as they dig into the world of cognitive bias. They discuss Amanda's wrongful conviction in 2007, spending four years in an Italian prison, all of th...
#60: Amanda Knox & Christopher Robinson: Understanding Cognitive Bias
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - January 05, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIt's Lola's favorite topic. And today she and Meagan are joined by hosts of the Labyrinths podcast Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson as they dig into the world of cognitive bias. They discuss Amanda's wrongful conviction in 2007, spending four years in an Italian prison, all of the biases tha...
#59: Bob Nygaard, Part 2 - How Psychics Manipulate
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - December 22, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part two of their interview with psychic tracker Bob Nygaard, Lola & Meagan dig into what its like fighting with police and prosecutors to bring criminals to justice, how psychic fraud is organized crime, an interesting discussion of why most psychics are women, the difference between cold an...
Bob Nygaard, Part 2 - How Psychics Manipulate
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - December 22, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsEpisode 59: In part two of their interview with psychic tracker Bob Nygaard, Lola & Meagan dig into what its like fighting with police and prosecutors to bring criminals to justice, how psychic fraud is organized crime, an interesting discussion of why most psychics are women, the difference bet...
#59: Bob Nygaard, Part 2: How Psychics Manipulate
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation - December 22, 2021 19:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsIn part two of their interview with psychic tracker Bob Nygaard, Lola & Meagan dig into what its like fighting with police and prosecutors to bring criminals to justice, how psychic fraud is organized crime, an interesting discussion of why most psychics are women, the difference between cold an...
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