Snapping Out of It

Stories from former members of cults or other dogmatic organizations and/or belief systems about what it was like to live that life, what made them finally start to question things, and what it feels like to rebuild life after snapping out of it.

Snapping Out of It is a society podcast hosted by Mike White, Charlie Hajek, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mike White, Charlie Hajek hosts Snapping Out of It, a society show with 14 episodes published.

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  Tiffany Day - Snapping Back Into It

  Nov 22, 20242h 3mS0

  <p>Tiffany Day talks about the constant manipulation she faced over the 50+ years she spent in the Living Word Fellowship. She talks about the early days of the church school, Marilyn’s pre-JRS multilevel marketing business, Rick’s aims to seize control, being threatened with retaliatory rent-hikes if she went on a vacation for her birthday and many great/sad/funny stories. </p><p><br></p><p>CORRECTION: Mike was wrong about “word salad” being a part of the DSM criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The tactic he described is commonly used by narcissists but not exclusively by narcissists. Also the tact...

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  Steph Hardman and Jennifer Eckstrom - Off Doing Thier Own Thing

  Oct 24, 20241h 37mS2

  <p>Sisters Jennifer Eckstrom and Steph (Eckstrom) Hardman talk with Charlie and Mike about growing up in The Living Word Fellowship cult. They discuss the cult's control tactics and emphasis on "submission", the intermittent love-bombing and discarding treatment from the Leaders, an interesting letter the sisters found after their mother's sudden passing, and how everyone was depleted, anxious, and depressed for many years leading up to the Great Implosion...yet despite causing many of these mental health problems in the first place, the leadership's stigmatization of going to therapy led to many of them going agonizingly undiagnosed. The story at...

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  Episode #7

  Scott Barker - Still Preserving The Word But For Better Reasons

  Oct 4, 20241h 43mS2

  <p>Growing up working in the audio and video departments of the Living Word Fellowship Cult, Scott Barker was trained from a young age to go to great lengths to preserve "The Word of God" spoken by the church's leaders. Now that training has come full circle as he, along with fellow cult-buster and previous Snapping Out of it guest Charity Navalesi, use those recordings and literature in their podcast to hold those same leaders accountable for the abuse that lead to the cult's demise. In this conversation with Scott we got to hear about his experience growing up in...

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  Episode #6

  Tim Rice - Get Behind Me Satan

  Sep 21, 20241h 52mS2

  <p>Tim, Charlie, and Mike talk about growing up in the Living Word Fellowship in Los Angeles and try to make sense of their widely varied experiences despite remaining so close the whole time. </p>

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  Episode #5

  Dawn - A Pervasive Culture of Yuckiness

  Sep 3, 20241h 23mS2

  Warning: This episode, while not going into explicit detail, does discuss the sexual abuse of minors. Dawn talks about her memories and the confusing emotions she felt as a young child seeing pastors of her local church being celebrated as they were sent to “do their thing” in new locations. It wasn’t until many years later that memories began resurfacing of the abuse she and others had suffered as small children at the hands of these “shepards”… and the abuse didn’t stop there. Reach us at: snappingoutofit@proton.me

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