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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's be real for a minute.
While the world was glued tothe headlines about Diddy,
cameras outside the courtroom,hashtags flying and social media
investigators analyzing everyangle, another trial was quietly
unfolding.
No TMZ, no Nancy Grace, no lawand crime channel breaking it
down minute by minute.
Trigger warning this episodecontains discussion of sexual
(00:22):
abuse, spiritual manipulation,psychological coercion and
forced labor.
The content may be triggeringfor survivors of trauma or
individuals sensitive to topicsinvolving exploitation, cult
dynamics and abuse of power.
Listener discretion is stronglyadvised.
Please prioritize youremotional well-being while
(00:42):
engaging with this episode.
Two White Women prioritize youremotional well-being while
engaging with this episode.
Two white women, nicoleDay-Done and Rachel Cherwitz,
were just convicted oforchestrating a years-long
operation involving forced labor, sexual coercion, psychological
abuse and spiritualmanipulation.
Under the banner of healing andwellness, they ran an empire
(01:03):
called One Taste, promisingwomen healing through orgasmic
meditation, only to exploittheir trauma, control their
lives and even use them tosexually service investors.
The entire case mirrors thesame patterns of power, silence
and abuse that mainstream mediaclaim to care about in the Diddy
case, but this one Crickets.
(01:24):
Well, let me backtrack.
Small articles on CNN, new YorkTimes, a few others, but again
very minimal and almost like awhisper, and while Diddy was
taken into custody and forced tofight from the inside, these
women were granted bonds andfreely enjoyed their lives while
waiting on trial to start.
They were eventually foundguilty.
(01:44):
Both women are set to besentenced in late September.
Each faces up to 20 years inprison Interestingly, only 20
years.
So we have to ask why isn'tanyone talking about Nicole
Daydone and Rachel Cherwitz?
Why was their trial handledwith such media delicacy, almost
invisibility, and what doesthis silence reveal about whose
(02:06):
abuse matters and whose doesn't?
I was actually scrollingYouTube and dropped in on Willie
D and was like what?
Welcome back to Life Points withRhonda, the podcast where we
talk about love, life,relationships and everything in
between, especially the thingsthey don't want you to know.
I'm your host, rhonda, andtoday we're diving into one of
(02:29):
the most disturbing and quietlyhandled court cases in recent
memory.
Nicole Daydoan, the founder ofOneTaste, and Rachel Cherwitz,
her head of sales, were justfound guilty of forced labor
conspiracy, a case involvingcoercion, sexual abuse,
emotional control, spiritualmanipulation and financial
(02:50):
exploitation.
It reads like a cult, itoperated like a cult, and yet
somehow it avoided all the mediaspotlight.
Meanwhile, the mainstream mediahas made an entire cinematic
saga out of the Diddy trial,splashing headlines across every
tabloid and podcast feed.
And listen, I'm not here todefend Diddy, but I am here to
(03:14):
call out the silence thatconveniently surrounds people
who don't fit the stereotype ofa predator.
This episode isn't about gossip.
It's about double standards.
It's about media control.
It's about race, class and thespiritual abuse that goes
unchecked when it's cloaked inyoga mats, tantra circles and
(03:35):
overpriced courses.
So let's talk about what reallyhappened inside the One Taste
empire and why this story shouldhave been breaking news.
If this kind of deep dive intoreal injustice, spiritual
manipulation and media silencematters to you, I need you to
support this work.
Join me on Patreon for theunfiltered conversation where
(03:56):
we'll go deeper into the trialtestimony, the psychological
tactics used by Dayton andCherwitz and the eerie silence
of feminist organizations andmedia watchdogs.
Subscribe, rate and share thisepisode with your community,
because we can't heal from whatwe refuse to face.
Follow me everywhere at LifePoints with Rhonda, youtube.
(04:17):
At Life Points with Rhonda,podcast.
Life Points with Rhonda on allstreaming platforms.
Email rhondaatlifepointscom.
Emaillifepointswithrhondaatgmailcom.
Support on Patreon patreoncom.
Slash.
Lifepointswithrhonda.
Background on One Taste and OMCulture.
(04:37):
Let's start with what One Tastewas supposed to be On the
surface.
It was a sexual wellnesscompany founded in 2004 by
Nicole Daydone.
Based out of San Francisco, itbranded itself as revolutionary,
avant-garde, the Tesla ofTantra the promise that women
could heal from trauma, unlockempowerment and experience
(05:00):
profound spiritual elevationthrough a practice called OM or
orgasmic meditation.
Now let's pause here.
I know the language alreadysounds a little woo-woo, and
that's intentional.
This is how coercion begins notwith violence, but with
carefully constructed spiritualseduction.
Om was marketed as a 15-minutemeditative practice where a
(05:23):
usually male partner stroked awoman's private orgasitative
practice, where a usually malepartner stroked a woman's
private orgasmic section in aspecific, slow,
non-goal-oriented way.
They claimed it wasn't aboutclimax, it was about presence,
awareness and energetic release.
It was medicine for the soul,they said.
The practice was framed asempowering, healing and deeply
(05:44):
spiritual.
And to someone dealing withtrauma, disconnection or years
of emotional pain, the practicewas framed as empowering,
healing and deeply spiritual.
And to someone dealing withtrauma, disconnection or years
of emotional pain, that promisesounds like salvation, but, as
we now know, it wasn't.
(06:06):
Behind the poetic language ofconnection, energy exchange and
expansion was an empire ofmanipulation, coercion, unpaid
labor and exploitation.
One Taste wasn't just teachingtechniques, it was grooming its
members, many of whom were womenseeking healing from past
sexual abuse, to hand over notjust their trauma but their
autonomy.
Members were encouraged to livecommunally, give up jobs and
even go into deep financial debtto afford one-tastes, extremely
(06:27):
expensive programs, somecosting tens of thousands of
dollars.
And once they were in, theywere told that any discomfort,
fear or resistance they felt wasjust resistance to growth, that
their shame was blocking theirhealing.
This is where the psychologicalabuse became spiritual
gaslighting.
Women were told to overridetheir boundaries, ignore their
(06:49):
inner voice and lean into theirdiscomfort, all under the guise
of transformation.
Nicole Day-Done positionedherself as a spiritual guru, a
kind of erotic messiah who hadfigured it out.
And Rachel Cherwitz?
She was the hard-hittingsaleswoman, not just selling
courses but pushing members tomax out credit cards, open new
(07:11):
lines of debt and prioritize onetaste over everything family,
jobs, relationships.
One Taste's teachings blurredall boundaries between consent
and coercion, betweenspirituality and control.
And, what's most chilling, theymade it feel like you were the
problem if you questioned it.
This was not just a company, itwas a cult, and not just any
(07:36):
cult, a sex cult disguised aswellness, packaged in feminist
language and New Agespirituality, sold mostly to
women, and somehow still allowedto grow unchecked for over a
decade.
The trial's horrifyingtestimonies and the truth behind
the curtain what came out incourt wasn't just damning, it
was devastating, and yet somehowit still didn't make the
(07:58):
evening news For five weeks.
In a quiet Brooklyn courtroom,survivors stood up and spoke the
unspeakable.
They testified about the waystheir bodies were used.
Their minds were broken andtheir lives were stolen under
the guise of healing.
They weren't just victims of ascam.
They were victims of apsychological assault that
(08:18):
blurred every line betweentrauma, recovery and spiritual
slavery.
One of the most hauntingtestimonies came from a woman
who said she was forced tobecome a handler for One Taste's
first major investor, a man whowas also Nicole Day-Done's
boyfriend.
That title handler soundsharmless, but in reality it
(08:39):
meant she had to live with him,perform humiliating sexual acts
at his command, cook his mealsand exist solely to satisfy him.
That wasn't an isolated case.
It was part of the businessmodel.
Multiple witnesses said theywere coerced into performing sex
acts with potential clients,investors and staff members, not
(08:59):
for their own healing, but forone taste's profit.
And if they refused, they weretold they were resisting growth,
not spiritually evolved orworse, that they would be kicked
out of the group, entirelyshamed and blacklisted.
They were sleep-deprived,watched constantly, spiritually
and emotionally gaslit untilthey didn't trust their own
(09:19):
instincts.
Some were encouraged to opencredit lines.
They couldn't afford sinkinginto debt just to stay in
Dedone's orbit.
And let's be clear, the traumawasn't just emotional, it was
physical, it was sexual, it wassystematic.
The prosecution revealed thatDeddone and Cherwitz built their
entire empire on the unpaid orunderpaid labor of vulnerable
(09:42):
women, women they specificallyrecruited because of their
histories of trauma.
They didn't just prey on theweak, they manufactured weakness
, broke down their members'sense of self and rebuilt them
in one taste image.
They promised healing, theydelivered exploitation.
And while Day-Done walkedstages and gave TED-style talks
about orgasm as a spiritual path, her company was funneling
(10:06):
coerced sexual services tohigh-paying men behind the
scenes.
That's not empowerment, that'strafficking.
By 2017, daydone had sold thecompany for $12 million, a
company that, by multipleaccounts, was sustained through
unpaid labor, coerced sex actsand cult-like psychological
(10:27):
warfare.
Let that sit for a moment.
She walked away with $12million and a trail of shattered
lives behind her.
She walked away with $12million and a trail of shattered
lives behind her.
Yet, even with all of this laidbare in a courtroom, we didn't
see Nancy Grace.
We didn't see TMZ parkedoutside.
We didn't see breaking newsalerts from law and crime, like
(10:47):
we did with Diddy.
Why?
Why does a sex cult built bywhite women abusing mostly white
and Asian women under theillusion of wellness, get a pass
from the public eye?
The silence is the scandal,media double standards and why
this matters for every survivor.
(11:08):
Let's talk about what's reallygoing on here, because the
silence around this trial wasn'tjust an oversight.
It was intentional.
While cameras and pundits weredissecting the Diddy case from
every angle, nicole Dedone andRachel Cherwitz were convicted
of some of the most grotesqueforms of spiritual and sexual
exploitation in recent memory,and most of the world didn't
(11:29):
even know it was happening.
This wasn't some low-levelscandal A five-week trial, a
case that involved forced labor,coerced sexual acts, financial
ruin and psychologicalmanipulation.
A modern-day cult operating outin the open, recruiting women
(11:49):
under the banner of feminism andwellness and then destroying
them from the inside out.
So where was the coverage?
Where was the outrage?
Where were the viral thinkpieces?
The answer is hard, but it'snecessary Race, image, privilege
, proximity.
(12:09):
Daydone and Cherwitz didn't looklike what society thinks a
predator looks like.
They're white women,soft-spoken, spiritual, they
speak in affirmations and wearlinen dresses.
They aren't rappers or mogulswith flashy lifestyles.
They sold healing, not hip-hop,and that's why their crimes
didn't fit the media's usualnarrative of scandal.
In other words, they didn'tmake good TV.
(12:34):
And this is the danger, becausewhen we only spotlight certain
types of predators, we createblind spots where the worst
abuses can hide.
It's easy to point fingers at apowerful Black man in the
entertainment industry and,let's be clear, if he's guilty
he must be held accountable.
But if we're really aboutprotecting survivors and
(12:55):
exposing abuse, then the playingfield has to be even, because
silence is complicity.
Let's be honest.
Had Daydone and Sherwitz beentwo black women coercing white
women into sexual servitude inthe name of spirituality, the
media circus would have set upoutside the courthouse.
Had this been marketed assacred sensuality coaching for
(13:16):
men, with male employees beingcoerced into sex acts for
investors, the outrage wouldhave been deafening.
But women exploiting otherwomen, especially when it's
dressed up in the language ofempowerment, slips right under
the radar.
That silence tells everysurvivor, especially women of
color your pain has a value andthat value depends on who harmed
(13:38):
you.
This case matters because itchallenges every assumption
we've been fed about what abuselooks like, who causes it and
what healing truly means.
It demands that we ask harderquestions about the wellness
industry, spiritual bypassing,performative feminism, and how
easy it is to hide coercionbehind inspirational quotes and
(13:58):
chakra charts.
And if we don't talk about it,who will?
My final thoughts,unapologetically let's stop
pretending the media just missedthis story.
They didn't miss it.
They buried it.
Because, at the exact same time, nicole Day-Done and Rachel
Cherwitz were on trial forrunning a spiritual sex cult.
What were we seeing on everymajor media outlet?
(14:19):
Black men being dragged throughthe dirt Diddy Fat Joe, tyler
Perry and Chris Brown.
And whether guilty, innocent orsomewhere in the middle, every
single one of them has beenparaded through the public
square, judged, dissected, memedand devoured before trial dates
are even set.
(14:40):
And yet two white women ran anempire that coerced women into
sex acts, lied to them abouthealing, kept them in debt and
used their trauma as a businessmodel.
And somehow the press foundtheir silence.
And, by the way, this is whatthe RICO Act looks like Not a
daily update from law and crime,a few very quiet cameras in
(15:01):
their faces, no nightlybreakdowns from CNN or ABC, no
daily passionate outbursts fromNancy Grace.
And let's not forget, thiswasn't just some local issue, it
was a federal case.
So what's the difference?
You know the answer, we allknow the answer.
It's image, race, proximity towhiteness, respectability
(15:24):
politics and the media's endlessneed to protect the illusion of
innocence when it's wrapped inpale skin and soft voices.
And I'm not here to defendpredators.
I'm here to demand equaloutrage, equal coverage, equal
justice, because if we're goingto break cycles of abuse, then
we have to stop letting whitefemininity be a shield and black
(15:45):
masculinity or femininity be atarget.
If a black man had created acompany like One Taste, where
women were allegedly stroked formeditative practice, forced to
have sex with investors and toldit was all part of healing
investors and told it was allpart of healing he'd be under
the jail.
But Daydon Sherwitz, they gottime, they got grace, they got
(16:07):
the benefit of silence.
And that silence is violent,that silence protects predators,
that silence tells survivorsyour pain only matters when it
fits the script.
So on Life Points with Rhonda,let me make it loud and clear we
see through the script, we'reflipping the page, we're writing
our own and we will never stopcalling it out.
(16:28):
Ready to dive deeper, my Patreoncommunity will be breaking this
case all the way down theracial double standard in public
outrage, the psychology of cultgrooming in modern day healing
circles, how to protect yourselffrom spiritual predators in the
wellness world, and what realsoul-led healing actually looks
like.
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Life Points with Ronda how theOne Taste case ties into
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Abuse of intimacy disguised ashealing.
Abuse of Intimacy Disguised asHealing.
This case reveals howvulnerable people in search of
emotional intimacy, healing orconnection can be manipulated by
someone using spiritual orromantic language.
These women were promisedempowerment, transformation and
(17:34):
sexual liberation the verypromises that many people also
look for in personal, romanticand spiritual relationships.
But instead of healing, theygot coercion.
Instead of connection, they gotcontrol.
And the language used to trapthem.
Surrender, trust, openness arethe same terms used in toxic
(17:56):
romantic dynamics, whereboundaries are broken under the
guise of love.
Remember family.
Healing should never come withcontrol and empowerment should
never come at the cost of yourvoice.
Stay discerning, stay groundedand never let silence be the
reason.
The truth stays buried Untilnext time.
Take care of your heart,protect your spirit and keep
(18:19):
living your life on purpose.
No-transcript.
Let's be real for a minute.
While the world was glued tothe headlines about Diddy,
cameras outside the courtroom,hashtags flying and social media
investigators analyzing everyangle, another trial was quietly
unfolding.
No TMZ, no Nancy Grace, no lawand crime channel breaking it
down minute by minute.
Trigger warning this episodecontains discussion of sexual
(00:22):
abuse, spiritual manipulation,psychological coercion and
forced labor.
The content may be triggeringfor survivors of trauma or
individuals sensitive to topicsinvolving exploitation, cult
dynamics and abuse of power.
Listener discretion is stronglyadvised.
Please prioritize youremotional well-being while
(00:42):
engaging with this episode.
Two White Women prioritize youremotional well-being while
engaging with this episode.
Two white women, nicoleDay-Done and Rachel Cherwitz,
were just convicted oforchestrating a years-long
operation involving forced labor, sexual coercion, psychological
abuse and spiritualmanipulation.
Under the banner of healing andwellness, they ran an empire
(01:03):
called One Taste, promisingwomen healing through orgasmic
meditation, only to exploittheir trauma, control their
lives and even use them tosexually service investors.
The entire case mirrors thesame patterns of power, silence
and abuse that mainstream mediaclaim to care about in the Diddy
case, but this one Crickets.
(01:24):
Well, let me backtrack.
Small articles on CNN, new YorkTimes, a few others, but again
very minimal and almost like awhisper, and while Diddy was
taken into custody and forced tofight from the inside, these
women were granted bonds andfreely enjoyed their lives while
waiting on trial to start.
They were eventually foundguilty.
(01:44):
Both women are set to besentenced in late September.
Each faces up to 20 years inprison Interestingly, only 20
years.
So we have to ask why isn'tanyone talking about Nicole
Daydone and Rachel Cherwitz?
Why was their trial handledwith such media delicacy, almost
invisibility, and what doesthis silence reveal about whose
(02:06):
abuse matters and whose doesn't?
I was actually scrollingYouTube and dropped in on Willie
D and was like what?
Welcome back to Life Points withRhonda, the podcast where we
talk about love, life,relationships and everything in
between, especially the thingsthey don't want you to know.
I'm your host, rhonda, andtoday we're diving into one of
(02:29):
the most disturbing and quietlyhandled court cases in recent
memory.
Nicole Daydoan, the founder ofOneTaste, and Rachel Cherwitz,
her head of sales, were justfound guilty of forced labor
conspiracy, a case involvingcoercion, sexual abuse,
emotional control, spiritualmanipulation and financial
(02:50):
exploitation.
It reads like a cult, itoperated like a cult, and yet
somehow it avoided all the mediaspotlight.
Meanwhile, the mainstream mediahas made an entire cinematic
saga out of the Diddy trial,splashing headlines across every
tabloid and podcast feed.
And listen, I'm not here todefend Diddy, but I am here to
(03:14):
call out the silence thatconveniently surrounds people
who don't fit the stereotype ofa predator.
This episode isn't about gossip.
It's about double standards.
It's about media control.
It's about race, class and thespiritual abuse that goes
unchecked when it's cloaked inyoga mats, tantra circles and
(03:35):
overpriced courses.
So let's talk about what reallyhappened inside the One Taste
empire and why this story shouldhave been breaking news.
If this kind of deep dive intoreal injustice, spiritual
manipulation and media silencematters to you, I need you to
support this work.
Join me on Patreon for theunfiltered conversation where
(03:56):
we'll go deeper into the trialtestimony, the psychological
tactics used by Dayton andCherwitz and the eerie silence
of feminist organizations andmedia watchdogs.
Subscribe, rate and share thisepisode with your community,
because we can't heal from whatwe refuse to face.
Follow me everywhere at LifePoints with Rhonda, youtube.
(04:17):
At Life Points with Rhonda,podcast.
Life Points with Rhonda on allstreaming platforms.
Email rhondaatlifepointscom.
Emaillifepointswithrhondaatgmailcom.
Support on Patreon patreoncom.
Slash.
Lifepointswithrhonda.
Background on One Taste and OMCulture.
(04:37):
Let's start with what One Tastewas supposed to be On the
surface.
It was a sexual wellnesscompany founded in 2004 by
Nicole Daydone.
Based out of San Francisco, itbranded itself as revolutionary,
avant-garde, the Tesla ofTantra the promise that women
could heal from trauma, unlockempowerment and experience
(05:00):
profound spiritual elevationthrough a practice called OM or
orgasmic meditation.
Now let's pause here.
I know the language alreadysounds a little woo-woo, and
that's intentional.
This is how coercion begins notwith violence, but with
carefully constructed spiritualseduction.
Om was marketed as a 15-minutemeditative practice where a
(05:23):
usually male partner stroked awoman's private orgasitative
practice, where a usually malepartner stroked a woman's
private orgasmic section in aspecific, slow,
non-goal-oriented way.
They claimed it wasn't aboutclimax, it was about presence,
awareness and energetic release.
It was medicine for the soul,they said.
The practice was framed asempowering, healing and deeply
(05:44):
spiritual.
And to someone dealing withtrauma, disconnection or years
of emotional pain, the practicewas framed as empowering,
healing and deeply spiritual.
And to someone dealing withtrauma, disconnection or years
of emotional pain, that promisesounds like salvation, but, as
we now know, it wasn't.
(06:06):
Behind the poetic language ofconnection, energy exchange and
expansion was an empire ofmanipulation, coercion, unpaid
labor and exploitation.
One Taste wasn't just teachingtechniques, it was grooming its
members, many of whom were womenseeking healing from past
sexual abuse, to hand over notjust their trauma but their
autonomy.
Members were encouraged to livecommunally, give up jobs and
even go into deep financial debtto afford one-tastes, extremely
(06:27):
expensive programs, somecosting tens of thousands of
dollars.
And once they were in, theywere told that any discomfort,
fear or resistance they felt wasjust resistance to growth, that
their shame was blocking theirhealing.
This is where the psychologicalabuse became spiritual
gaslighting.
Women were told to overridetheir boundaries, ignore their
(06:49):
inner voice and lean into theirdiscomfort, all under the guise
of transformation.
Nicole Day-Done positionedherself as a spiritual guru, a
kind of erotic messiah who hadfigured it out.
And Rachel Cherwitz?
She was the hard-hittingsaleswoman, not just selling
courses but pushing members tomax out credit cards, open new
(07:11):
lines of debt and prioritize onetaste over everything family,
jobs, relationships.
One Taste's teachings blurredall boundaries between consent
and coercion, betweenspirituality and control.
And, what's most chilling, theymade it feel like you were the
problem if you questioned it.
This was not just a company, itwas a cult, and not just any
(07:36):
cult, a sex cult disguised aswellness, packaged in feminist
language and New Agespirituality, sold mostly to
women, and somehow still allowedto grow unchecked for over a
decade.
The trial's horrifyingtestimonies and the truth behind
the curtain what came out incourt wasn't just damning, it
was devastating, and yet somehowit still didn't make the
(07:58):
evening news For five weeks.
In a quiet Brooklyn courtroom,survivors stood up and spoke the
unspeakable.
They testified about the waystheir bodies were used.
Their minds were broken andtheir lives were stolen under
the guise of healing.
They weren't just victims of ascam.
They were victims of apsychological assault that
(08:18):
blurred every line betweentrauma, recovery and spiritual
slavery.
One of the most hauntingtestimonies came from a woman
who said she was forced tobecome a handler for One Taste's
first major investor, a man whowas also Nicole Day-Done's
boyfriend.
That title handler soundsharmless, but in reality it
(08:39):
meant she had to live with him,perform humiliating sexual acts
at his command, cook his mealsand exist solely to satisfy him.
That wasn't an isolated case.
It was part of the businessmodel.
Multiple witnesses said theywere coerced into performing sex
acts with potential clients,investors and staff members, not
(08:59):
for their own healing, but forone taste's profit.
And if they refused, they weretold they were resisting growth,
not spiritually evolved orworse, that they would be kicked
out of the group, entirelyshamed and blacklisted.
They were sleep-deprived,watched constantly, spiritually
and emotionally gaslit untilthey didn't trust their own
(09:19):
instincts.
Some were encouraged to opencredit lines.
They couldn't afford sinkinginto debt just to stay in
Dedone's orbit.
And let's be clear, the traumawasn't just emotional, it was
physical, it was sexual, it wassystematic.
The prosecution revealed thatDeddone and Cherwitz built their
entire empire on the unpaid orunderpaid labor of vulnerable
(09:42):
women, women they specificallyrecruited because of their
histories of trauma.
They didn't just prey on theweak, they manufactured weakness
, broke down their members'sense of self and rebuilt them
in one taste image.
They promised healing, theydelivered exploitation.
And while Day-Done walkedstages and gave TED-style talks
about orgasm as a spiritual path, her company was funneling
(10:06):
coerced sexual services tohigh-paying men behind the
scenes.
That's not empowerment, that'strafficking.
By 2017, daydone had sold thecompany for $12 million, a
company that, by multipleaccounts, was sustained through
unpaid labor, coerced sex actsand cult-like psychological
(10:27):
warfare.
Let that sit for a moment.
She walked away with $12million and a trail of shattered
lives behind her.
She walked away with $12million and a trail of shattered
lives behind her.
Yet, even with all of this laidbare in a courtroom, we didn't
see Nancy Grace.
We didn't see TMZ parkedoutside.
We didn't see breaking newsalerts from law and crime, like
(10:47):
we did with Diddy.
Why?
Why does a sex cult built bywhite women abusing mostly white
and Asian women under theillusion of wellness, get a pass
from the public eye?
The silence is the scandal,media double standards and why
this matters for every survivor.
(11:08):
Let's talk about what's reallygoing on here, because the
silence around this trial wasn'tjust an oversight.
It was intentional.
While cameras and pundits weredissecting the Diddy case from
every angle, nicole Dedone andRachel Cherwitz were convicted
of some of the most grotesqueforms of spiritual and sexual
exploitation in recent memory,and most of the world didn't
(11:29):
even know it was happening.
This wasn't some low-levelscandal A five-week trial, a
case that involved forced labor,coerced sexual acts, financial
ruin and psychologicalmanipulation.
A modern-day cult operating outin the open, recruiting women
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under the banner of feminism andwellness and then destroying
them from the inside out.
So where was the coverage?
Where was the outrage?
Where were the viral thinkpieces?
The answer is hard, but it'snecessary Race, image, privilege
, proximity.
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Daydone and Cherwitz didn't looklike what society thinks a
predator looks like.
They're white women,soft-spoken, spiritual, they
speak in affirmations and wearlinen dresses.
They aren't rappers or mogulswith flashy lifestyles.
They sold healing, not hip-hop,and that's why their crimes
didn't fit the media's usualnarrative of scandal.
In other words, they didn'tmake good TV.
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And this is the danger, becausewhen we only spotlight certain
types of predators, we createblind spots where the worst
abuses can hide.
It's easy to point fingers at apowerful Black man in the
entertainment industry and,let's be clear, if he's guilty
he must be held accountable.
But if we're really aboutprotecting survivors and
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exposing abuse, then the playingfield has to be even, because
silence is complicity.
Let's be honest.
Had Daydone and Sherwitz beentwo black women coercing white
women into sexual servitude inthe name of spirituality, the
media circus would have set upoutside the courthouse.
Had this been marketed assacred sensuality coaching for
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men, with male employees beingcoerced into sex acts for
investors, the outrage wouldhave been deafening.
But women exploiting otherwomen, especially when it's
dressed up in the language ofempowerment, slips right under
the radar.
That silence tells everysurvivor, especially women of
color your pain has a value andthat value depends on who harmed
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you.
This case matters because itchallenges every assumption
we've been fed about what abuselooks like, who causes it and
what healing truly means.
It demands that we ask harderquestions about the wellness
industry, spiritual bypassing,performative feminism, and how
easy it is to hide coercionbehind inspirational quotes and
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chakra charts.
And if we don't talk about it,who will?
My final thoughts,unapologetically let's stop
pretending the media just missedthis story.
They didn't miss it.
They buried it.
Because, at the exact same time, nicole Day-Done and Rachel
Cherwitz were on trial forrunning a spiritual sex cult.
What were we seeing on everymajor media outlet?
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Black men being dragged throughthe dirt Diddy Fat Joe, tyler
Perry and Chris Brown.
And whether guilty, innocent orsomewhere in the middle, every
single one of them has beenparaded through the public
square, judged, dissected, memedand devoured before trial dates
are even set.
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And yet two white women ran anempire that coerced women into
sex acts, lied to them abouthealing, kept them in debt and
used their trauma as a businessmodel.
And somehow the press foundtheir silence.
And, by the way, this is whatthe RICO Act looks like Not a
daily update from law and crime,a few very quiet cameras in
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their faces, no nightlybreakdowns from CNN or ABC, no
daily passionate outbursts fromNancy Grace.
And let's not forget, thiswasn't just some local issue, it
was a federal case.
So what's the difference?
You know the answer, we allknow the answer.
It's image, race, proximity towhiteness, respectability
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politics and the media's endlessneed to protect the illusion of
innocence when it's wrapped inpale skin and soft voices.
And I'm not here to defendpredators.
I'm here to demand equaloutrage, equal coverage, equal
justice, because if we're goingto break cycles of abuse, then
we have to stop letting whitefemininity be a shield and black
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masculinity or femininity be atarget.
If a black man had created acompany like One Taste, where
women were allegedly stroked formeditative practice, forced to
have sex with investors and toldit was all part of healing
investors and told it was allpart of healing he'd be under
the jail.
But Daydon Sherwitz, they gottime, they got grace, they got
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the benefit of silence.
And that silence is violent,that silence protects predators,
that silence tells survivorsyour pain only matters when it
fits the script.
So on Life Points with Rhonda,let me make it loud and clear we
see through the script, we'reflipping the page, we're writing
our own and we will never stopcalling it out.
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Ready to dive deeper, my Patreoncommunity will be breaking this
case all the way down theracial double standard in public
outrage, the psychology of cultgrooming in modern day healing
circles, how to protect yourselffrom spiritual predators in the
wellness world, and what realsoul-led healing actually looks
like.
Join me at patreoncom.
(16:50):
Slash lifepointswithronda.
Stay connected.
Lifepointswithronda at gmailcom.
Wwwlifepointswithrondacom.
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Youtube atlifepointswithrondacom.
Instagram, tiktok, facebook.
Youtube at Life Points withRonda YouTube channel.
Life Points with Ronda Podcast.
(17:10):
Life Points with Ronda how theOne Taste case ties into
relationships and why it belongson Life Points with Ronda.
Abuse of intimacy disguised ashealing.
Abuse of Intimacy Disguised asHealing.
This case reveals howvulnerable people in search of
emotional intimacy, healing orconnection can be manipulated by
someone using spiritual orromantic language.
These women were promisedempowerment, transformation and
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sexual liberation the verypromises that many people also
look for in personal, romanticand spiritual relationships.
But instead of healing, theygot coercion.
Instead of connection, they gotcontrol.
And the language used to trapthem.
Surrender, trust, openness arethe same terms used in toxic
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romantic dynamics, whereboundaries are broken under the
guise of love.
Remember family.
Healing should never come withcontrol and empowerment should
never come at the cost of yourvoice.
Stay discerning, stay groundedand never let silence be the
reason.
The truth stays buried Untilnext time.
Take care of your heart,protect your spirit and keep
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living your life on purpose.
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