October 16, 2019 • 32 mins
NXIVM claimed to offer personal and professional development seminars through its "Executive Success Programs". But in reality it was a a cult and a pyramid scheme that brainwashed and blackmailed women into being sex slaves.
GUESTS:
Sarah Edmondson, author of Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life
Rick Alan Ross, author of Cults Inside Out: How People Get in and Can Get Out
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