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Escaping NXIVM

NXIVM (pronounced "Nexium") calls itself a humanitarian community. Experts call it a cult. Uncover: Escaping NXIVM is an investigative podcast series about the group, its leader Keith Raniere and one woman"s journey to get out. From CBC Podcasts and CBC News. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.

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00:40:29

Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

Escaping NXIVM ·

2025/10/28

In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. Even so, the narrative became embedded in our cultural memory, warping everything it touched — including the lives of innocent people… And it never quite died out.In a new 8-part series, Sarah Marshall (You’re Wrong About) explores the tangled web of the Satanic Panic,

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00:37:08

Introducing | The Turning: River Road

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2025/10/20

From Rococo Punch and iHeartPodcasts comes The Turning: River Road — a jaw-dropping true story about faith, control, and the power to break free.At just 13, Lindsay Tornambe was chosen by the leader of her family’s cult for a “special role,” becoming one of the youngest Maidens of the River Road Fellowship in rural Minnesota. After a ritual that bound her and other girls to the cult’s leader, Lindsay spent more than a decade trapped in isolation and abuse — hidden from the world.But one day, she and

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00:42:05

Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean S2 and The shrimp...

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2025/07/09

The Outlaw Ocean is an anthology podcast that plunges you into the vast and often lawless world of the open seas. Today we're featuring an investigation from S2 called The Shrimp Factory Whistleblower.In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina joins Josh Farenello. What started off as a dream job, slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare. Josh moved to southern India to oversee a shrimp-processing plant, but it soon dawned on him that he’d been really been hired as an American

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00:32:19

Escaping NXIVM Introduces: Agent Pale Horse

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2025/04/01

FBI undercover agent Scott Payne’s job was to infiltrate the most dangerous gangs of our times: outlaw bikers, drug cartels and the international neo-Nazi networks hellbent on inciting a race war.He was taking down these groups from within. And Scott was good at it — people confided in him their most audacious plans for mass violence and domestic terrorism.In the second season of White Hot Hate, host Michelle Shephard gives you an unvarnished view of a life undercover. Because after a 28-year-long

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00:40:19

Escaping NXIVM Introduces | The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby

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2025/01/21

Kaitlyn Braun, a pregnant young woman in crisis, takes dozens of birth workers through an escalating series of disasters – rape, baby loss, and even a coma. One by one, the doulas struggle to support her and grieve with her, and even save her life as they’re led down a distressing path. And then the truth comes out.In this six-part true crime series, Sarah Treleaven untangles a complex web of lies and deception to ask who Kaitlyn really is and why she did the things that she did. Cases like these

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00:36:20

Escaping NXIVM Introduces: Hollywood Exiles

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2024/01/29

From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts comes Hollywood Exiles. Host Oona Chaplin tells the story of the decades-long campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. It’s a campaign that eventually drove her grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others out of tinseltown. Hollywood Exiles is a tale of glamour, duplicity and political intrigue that reverberates to this day. It’s the story of how Tinseltown became an ideological battleground. The toll of the fight was enormous – reputations, careers

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00:13:59

A Conversation With Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames...

Escaping NXIVM ·

2022/06/06

Sarah Edmondson and Anthony "Nippy" Ames are cult escapees and whistleblowers featured in Escaping NXIVM. In this clip from the Sickboy podcast, Sarah and Nippy sit down with the Sickboy hosts to dive deep into their experience with escaping a cult and how it affected their mental health. The full interview and more episodes are available at smarturl.it/sickboycbc

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00:21:42

The rise and fall of NXIVM's Keith Raniere

Escaping NXIVM ·

2020/10/28

In a U.S. federal courtroom Tuesday, Keith Raniere was sentenced to 120 years—having been convicted of a slew of crimes related to his alleged sex cult NXIVM. During the trial and sentencing, victims told of how the self-professed empowerment "vanguard" had turned some of his followers into sex slaves and branded them with his initials. Front Burner's Jayme Poisson discusses with Uncover: NXIVM host Josh Bloch.

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00:02:06

Escaping NXIVM: Trailer

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

Over the past few months, CBC documentarian Josh Bloch has been investigating NXIVM, a self-help group led by Keith Raniere. In this season of Uncover, we take you into NXIVM, and reveal how Raniere won the endorsement of actors, politicians and even a visit from the Dalai Lama. Originally launched September 5, 2018.

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00:35:47

Episode 1: The Branding

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

Sarah Edmondson is a high-level member of a self-help group called NXIVM, but an invitation to join a secret women's group called DOS leads her to do something she later regrets.

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00:53:21

Episode 2: The Epiphany

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2018/09/04

Sarah takes us inside her journey with NXIVM, from signing up for a personal growth workshop to becoming a star recruiter for the group she now calls a cult.

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00:55:38

Episode 3: Sex, Money and Nazis

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2018/09/04

Those who knew Keith Raniere intimately reveal his early life, how he started NXIVM and ended up being accused by the FBI of running a criminal enterprise.

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00:42:07

Episode 4: The Suppressives

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2018/09/04

What happens when you leave NXIVM? Those who have left or spoken out reveal the price they paid.

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00:40:59

Episode 5: Blow it Up

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

Sarah and her husband try to escape NXIVM and take it down while warning others who are still inside.

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00:38:51

Episode 6: The Defence

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

Josh speaks to one of Keith Raniere's lawyers, Marc Agnifilo, and hears a different point of view on NXIVM and DOS.

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00:43:18

Episode 7: The Reckoning

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

Sarah faces criticism about her role in NXIVM and tries to come to terms with the 12 years she spent as a high-level member of the group.

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00:21:03

The Fright Experiments: Bonus

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

Jennifer Kobelt — Sarah Edmondson's former assistant in NXIVM — tells her story of joining NXIVM at a moment of crisis in her life and being involved in the group’s so-called "fright study.”

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00:37:17

Inside the Trial: Bonus

Escaping NXIVM ·

2018/09/04

The team behind season one of Uncover: Escaping NXIVM takes us inside the trial of NXIVM co-founder Keith Raniere and speaks with former member of the group Sarah Edmondson about her thoughts on the trial.

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