A Little Bit Culty

A Little Bit Culty

Think you might be in a cult? Want to know the signs? Join Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames to talk about things that are..a little bit culty. Or in their case: a whole bunch of culty. As whistleblowers documented in the critically-acclaimed HBO series “The Vow,” Sarah and Nippy have a lot to say about their experience, and burning questions to ask people with similar stories. They’re here to help people understand, heal from, and avoid abusive situations one little red flag at a time. Listen in as they share their stories, have frank and unscripted conversations with other survivors and cult experts, and do a deep dive on how devotion can turn to dysfunction.
Holy Disobedience: Melissa Duge Spiers on the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Part 2)
A Little Bit CultyApril 02, 2026
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Holy Disobedience: Melissa Duge Spiers on the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Part 2)

Part 2 with Melissa Duge Spiers picks up at the “WTF moment” when a call about her beloved father—a once‑celebrated Adventist youth pastor and doctor—exposes him as a child predator and shatters the good‑dad/bad‑mom story she’d carried h...

Holy Disobedience: Melissa Duge Spiers on the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Part 1)
A Little Bit CultyMarch 30, 2026
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Holy Disobedience: Melissa Duge Spiers on the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Part 1)

In Part 1 of our episode with Melissa Duge Spiers, she pulls back the curtain on Seventh‑day Adventism (SDA)—a massive but strangely invisible denomination she describes as a classic end‑times cult built on control of food, bodies, and b...

Twisted Yoga: Ashleigh Freckleton on Atman/MISA and Gregorian Bivolaru
A Little Bit CultyMarch 26, 2026
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Twisted Yoga: Ashleigh Freckleton on Atman/MISA and Gregorian Bivolaru

In this episode, we finally sit down with Ashleigh Freckleton, one of the central voices in the Apple TV docuseries Twisted Yoga and a former devotee of MISA/Atman Yoga, the transnational yoga-tantra empire orbiting fugitive guru Gregori...

Escaping Scientology with Liz Gale: Audits, Absurdities, and Aftermath
A Little Bit CultyMarch 23, 2026
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Escaping Scientology with Liz Gale: Audits, Absurdities, and Aftermath

In this episode, Liz Gale shares what it means to be a third‑generation Scientologist, born into a fanatical family where every aspect of childhood—schooling, discipline, even getting sick—was filtered through L. Ron Hubbard’s “technolog...