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Frankie Files Podcast

Welcome to the world of cult kids. Cults, coercion SA, CSA, are the topics.I use my own survival story to shed a light on cults and the challenge they present in today"s world for any of us who have successfully stayed alive. Especially the adult children of cults.Click to Subscribe onAcastSpotifyiHeart RadioApple PodcastsYoutubeAudibleGooglePodcastsPodlinkStitcherPocket CastPandoraorRSShttp://frankiefilespodcast.comAlso Sundays "Hot Takes of a Cult Kid" RSS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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1:12:33

[Extra: Live Reddit Talk] Tabby Chapman on NXIVM, her...

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2022/12/13

Tabby Chapman is the guest of our live reddit talk recorded mid October. Tabby is a ex-NXIVM member who was directly recruited by Allison Mack. Hear our first interview: Ep. 36 of the Frankie Files. Tabby is a thinker and clearly is concerned about preventing coercion like she experienced systematically in NXIVM. Her voice is a beacon and underused resource. Listen in to this fun casual informative chat now. See more at tabbychapman.com, internationalcultawareness.org and get involved in action

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1:48:31

[Extra: Live Reddit Talk] Sara Tasneem Q & A on being...

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2022/12/06

Our original full length episode with Sara Tasneem is Ep. 35. Here, Sara joins us for one of the Sunday Reddit Talk events (1-2pm PT) in the group r/cultpodcasts (weekly). Her strength and devotion to helping prevent more child brides spills into her legal battles helping testify to congress that laws must change. What are the laws? Here she help outline them and links are also shared. Here are the chat notes from the live event

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1:14:34

[Extra: Live Twitter Spaces] Sari & Sylvia Crawford Q...

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2022/12/05

This is a bonus to Ep. 39. In our Q & A with mom Sylvia who lived and worked at Synanon, and daughter Sari who narrated The Sunshine Place, the ladies teach us about an odd precedent setting time in California and USA history. It's not all good. More... frankiefilespodcast.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frankie-tease/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:36:31

[Extra: Live Reddit Talk] International Cult...

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2022/11/25

Live 11/18/22. Redditors and guest Susan Dones discuss the grim timeline, survivors, of the deadliest cult. It is also a recognition of Internatinal Cult Awareness Day. See more at Cult 101. Youtube excerpt: HighDef, Article notes, Rolling Stone: 1978. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frankie-tease/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:33:35

Frankie Files Podcast Ep. 40 ~ Season One Mega Recap...

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2022/11/01

Frankie Files Podcast season one wraps with a clip from every episode sequentially in a monster recording. This is a great way to survey the catalogue and see what you want to hear & download. Topics are sensitive please note the trigger warning. Season one features my Mom 🌹, Daniella M. Young 🎖, Syran Warner 📰, Dr. Janja Lalich 📚, Celia Williamson🎓, Sara Tasneem💍, Tabitha Chapman🎞, Andrew Pledger ⛪, Ryan Hernandez🌐, Sari & Sylvia Crawford🕰. The Frankie Files is supported by viewer$. See

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1:04:47

Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 39 ~ Sari Crawford on...

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2022/10/25

It's 4th Tuesday and time to talk about adult children of cults. Synanon is our focus, our special guest is Sari Crawford host of the new podcast The Sunshine Place about Synanon a revolutionary rehab cult from 50's to 90's in USA. 0ne of the executive producers of that show is Robert Downey Jr. The interview starts with Sari who's parents were decades in Synanon, and eclipses with her mother joining the talk. It's audio gold, as Sari's mom Sylvia takes us through her first time playing "The Game"

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Ep. 39 Teaser: Sylvia Crawford on Charles Deidrich...

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2022/10/25

See ep. 39.and FrankieFilesPodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frankie-tease/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:35

Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 38 ~ Ryan Hernandez ~...

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2022/10/18

It's 3rd Tuesday & #BackToSchool and I'm joined by Ryan of Truth That Heals Podcast. His Catholic mission (Alliance of the Holy Family International) story will raise hair. The OATH used to be bad because they were mixed with the AHFI leadership at the time. But once the AHFI leadership left the OATH became a better place, in reality it was the AHFI leadership that was trafficking him. His 11 years of service unrewarded, in fact punished and his college stolen. Mission sect: Oblate Apostles of the

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49:22

Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 37 ~ Andrew Pledger...

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2022/10/11

For 2nd Tues., Andrew Pledger teaches us about educational faith prisons mandated in Christian Fundamentalism families. He's at https://www.liinks.co/4ndrewpledger #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. See more on this podcast at FrankieFilesPodcast.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.

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43:12

Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 36 ~ Tabitha Chapman...

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2022/10/04

For 1st Tuesday, #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. In addition Chapman formed in 2022, Intnl Cult Awareness Month which is now every August. She educates us on that, then tours us through the bold entrapment

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1:03:43

Frankie Files 📂 Podcast ~ Ep. 35 ~ Sara Tasneem, a...

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2022/09/27

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 for are Resiliency Foundation, Global Hope 365, Tahirih Justice Center and Unchained At Last. See more about the show at FrankieFilesPodcast.com Donate to the show at

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1:08:26

Frankie Files 📁 Podcast ~ Episode 34 a Cult Catch Up...

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2022/09/20

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".--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frankie-tease/message

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34:36

Frankie Files 📁 Podcast Ep. 33 ~ Love Has Won is Not...

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2022/09/13

In this 2nd Tues. episode, I'll do an update on Love Has Won Cult, the leader's death, plus compare it to a similar cult called Morningland Church. They both believe in New Age philosophy, both leaders abandoned their children and continued after the founder's death and both believe in chanelling a dead leader, which is going on in both cults, still, now to this day. Love Has Won in Colorado, and Morningland renamed the Monastery in California. But the details...Love Has Won is an all too familiar

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42:39

Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 32 ~ Celia Williamson PhD...

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2022/09/06

Celia Williamson interviewed me on her podcast which focuses on human & sex trafficking. Her podcast is called Emancipation Nation cuz she's into freeing slaves. I'm on ep. 159 telling my story. We will explore the arena of human trafficking from a 30 year expert in the field in the state of Ohio, but also federally. A bit about this powerhouse.Celia Williamson, Ph.D.Distinguished University Professor of Social Work and Director of the Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute Celia Williamson

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Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 31 ~ Dr. Janja Lalich ~...

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2022/08/30

As promised I have a very special guest for 5th Tuesday.Sociologist & author of eight books, Dr. Janja Lalich. A world-renowned expert in cultic studies. Author and co-author of critically acclaimed books on cults. An avid contributor to the field of cultic studies through her research, presentations, and articles. Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in self-sealing, or closed, systems (cults, human trafficking, situations of coercive influence and control,

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Frankie Files Podcast ~ Ep. 30 ~ Trafficking Kids...

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2022/08/22

It's 4th Tues., time for the topic of cult kids. In this episode I pay homage to my first interview ever on being a cult survivor. The interview was with a trafficking activist and the Director of that department at University of Toledo, Ohio. But how does it happen in churches and religious cults, how do they get away with it in plain site? This episode is a breakdown of pertinent right now info on how to increase your own awareness of potential trafficking in cults, how law enforcement is

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33:57

The Frankie Files ~ Ep. 29 ~ Intro to New Age...

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2022/08/16

It's 3rd Tues. which means cults is the topic. While reading "Bounded Choice" I chose several pertinent excerpts as Dr. Lalich (Sociology) details who and what usherd in the "New Age" Religion that I have been surrounded with since childhood. It's of special interest to me. There is also an element of psychadelic drug use and psychology which contributed. I cover who are the books and names most important to this era and its ongoing practices.Dipping into 50's in USA I am covering historically how

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29:10

The Frankie Files ~ Ep. 28 ~ Getting from Victim to...

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2022/08/09

Today is 2nd Tuesday and I usually reserve this for 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 psychologist 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

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Ep. 27 ~ Analyzing Propaganda ft. IPA Text

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2022/08/02

It's 1st Tues. and that means breaking down the aspects of mind control and there are several excellent articles I'll be using to do so. There is always so much info to cover here. This is the topic of the very first episode of this show, too you may want to check that out. There are no cults without propaganda, let's face it. Idealism is a commodity being sold to us - once sold we are converts and we are compliant. But do you know the seven parts of propaganda? Listen to find out. Special link

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The Frankie Files ~ Ep. 26 ~ Telling Your Parents

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2022/07/26

It's 4th Tuesday. It's time to talk about stuff cult kids deal with. Adult children of cults have a unique challenge when they leave the church or cult where they were abused. This episode is advice on telling your parents, mixed in with my own story of finally telling my mom what happened to me after 28 years of silence. Telling your parents isn't as easy as you would think. This episode explores the complications of telling or not telling your parents about abuse you sustained without their

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