Blog & Episodes
Ep. 36 Tabby Chapman on NXIVM
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In Ep. 36, For 1st Tuesday it's #BackToSchool. Cult awareness is a spotlight during October of Season One. My guests & I will spell out the recruitment dangers for teens, college adolescents, and people in a life transition. In this interview I speak with Tabitha Chapman, one of the victims of Allison Mack (Smallville) in the self-improvement cult NXIVM. She is also in the related documentary Seduced and was involved in Mack's trial.
In addition Chapman formed in 2022, International Cult Awareness Month, which is now every August. She educates us on that, then tours us through the bold entrapment recruiting she went through directly by Allison Mack in NXIVM & why she went into clinical counseling to help victims of coercion.
See internationalcultawareness.org and
tabbychapman.com to learn more about this knowledgeable woman.
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Ep. 35 out now~ Sara Tasneem, a Sufi Cult (USA) Child Bride Survivor & Activist
It's 4th Tuesday time to talk to an adult child of a cult. This episode is featuring Sara Tasneem. Sara is going to blow our minds a bit about the laws in the USA and how they allow child brides to be entrapped against their will. Her blog is at http://tasneemsfadvocacy.home.blog Get involved! The organizations she works with are Resiliency Foundation, Global Hope 365, Tahirih Justice Center and Unchained At Last. Listen on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frankie-files-podcast-ep-35-sara-tasneem-a-sufi/id1615611478?i=1000580740284
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FFP Ep. 34 - a Cult Catch Up
In this 3rd Tues., It's time for a Cult Catch-Up with Journalist Syran Warner ~ In this hour we go through his reporting on The Body Cult, Cultish Podcast (follow-up) and a MN cult that is also owners of a food truck. The conversation winds and we have an audience question where Syran teaches us how to give a cult a "Google Problem".
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Ep. 32 Celia Williamson is our special guest
Today I have another incredible guest. We explore the arena of human trafficking and similarities between cult criminals and pimps, from a 30 year expert in the field in the state of Ohio, but also federally. Hear everywhere now. iHeartRadio link. Sign up for the -19th Intl. Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conf. which Williamson founded.
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“Janja Lalich combines unusual empathy for true believers with broad and balanced scholarship and incisive interpretations of overall cultic behavior. ”–Robert Jay Lifton, author of Superpower Syndrome.
Hear Frankie's nearly hour audio interview of the creator of the Bounded Choice concept. now available on Ep. 31.
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Quick Recap of August 2022 goings on so far in my corner. And I have a very special guest for 5th Tuesday in August. Stay tuned.
Frankie Files Podcast ~ Episode 30 out now - Trafficking Kids into Religious Cults
https://youtu.be/uf86PQsiJjw
My new Interview on being trafficking into a religious cult on Emancipation Nation Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zu2AZaxciTcqMnUHS1LBB?si=WFGWUR4rQViCosjZaYsgcw&utm_source=copy-link
I wrote a new article
The Centrific Circles of My Cultic Experience: Two Degrees of Separation to Dr. Lalich, to Morningland Church to Me
https://frankietease.substack.com/p/the-centrific-circle-of-my-cultist
Guest Ryan from The Truth That Heals Podcast chatted with me live on Reddit - Hear the replay
https://www.reddit.com/user/frankietease/comments/wu8jcn/religious_chat_truth_that_heals_pods_ryan_talks/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Many upcoming interviews and exciting events are scheduled on the topic of cults - cult kids and the true crime that takes place in these areas. Tune in and tell a friend.
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See you out here - and remember August is International Cult Awareness Month! Take action, educate and spread your "survivor wisdom" (Robert Jay Lifton).
https://internationalcultawareness.org/
I am excited for several upcoming interviews to be featured on the show and Sunday Live Audio Reddit Chat. Stay tuned and always keep that critical thinking going!
Live Audio Cult Chat - Sundays 1-2pm PT.
Sundays on Reddit come to the religious cult chat. Follow my profile or wait for the link a few minutes before 1pm PT. here See Frankie's Reddit Profile here. We audio chat including guests, survivors, other podcast hosts on cults.
Emancipation Nation (Celia Williamson PhD) interview on my religious cult trafficking https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zu2AZaxciTcqMnUHS1LBB?si=blafqYKvTQ-dOqmV9mUoDw&utm_source=copy-link
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Ep. 28 out now
Getting from Victim to Survivor
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For 2nd Tuesday I usually focus on the topic of sexuality in society. I'm going to take a bit more of a generalized approach on the topic of survivors today. How do we head from victim to survivor in recovering from what happened?
One specialist on this topic is a thinker in his 90's who's had a lot to say as a psychatrist in this area of societal issues: Robert Jay Lifton. I learned of Lifton from a podcast episode of Influence Continuum by Steve Hassan.
The episode is called "Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on current events and the importance of survivors telling their stories".
