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219 – Shunned While Active – Treated Like A Leper For Reporting Elder Misconduct & Sexual Harassment
In this heart-wrenching episode, we hear from Carolyn, a 49-year-old former Jehovah's Witness who survived a lifetime of systemic trauma, from foster care and childhood molestation...
218 – Robbed Of Her Inheritance – The Daughter Who Stayed While Mom Refused To Help Her Own Parents
In this gripping episode, we speak with Samantha Giles, who recounts her journey from a childhood marked by family trauma to her eventual "escape" from the cult of Jehovah's Witnes...
217 – How Jehovah's Witnesses Pushed Me and My Non-JW Husband Away From Their Religion
In this episode, we sit down with Elizabeth, a 31-year-old former Jehovah's Witness who shares her journey as a fifth-generation member of the organization. Raised in a strict hous...
Jehovah's Witnesses Will Still Die Refusing Blood Transfusions After The Update Allowing Blood
Since the mid 1900s Jehovah's Witnesses have had a ban on blood transfusions. They would take biblical commands to "abstain from blood" literally even though the commands were abo...
216 – How Star Trek Helped Me Leave A Cult – For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky
This episode documents the life of Hannah, a young woman who escaped the controlling environment of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the shadow of an abusive stepfather. The narrative e...
215 – All Gas, No Brakes – The Relentless Expectations Forced Upon Young Jehovah's Witnesses
In this episode Bernie, a 44-year-old former member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, provides a poignant account of growing up within a restrictive religious organization that demanded ...
214 – A Harrowing Midnight Escape – Danny Checks Out Of The Hotel California – Leaving "The Move"
In this episode, Danny shares his harrowing journey of growing up in a high-control group known as "The Move." From being "autoshunned" alongside his mother to living on a remote 3...
213 - Do Jehovah's Witnesses Fail To Protect Children From CSA & Shun Those That Report It?
In this episode, Ashley shares her harrowing journey as a fifth-generation Jehovah's Witness and exposes the systemic lack of protection for children within the organization. From ...
212 – What I DIDN'T Say On Jubilee – Ex-Scientologists & Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses – Behind The Scenes
When I got the chance to cast for the eventual October release of a video on Jubilee featuring former Jehovah's Witnesses and former Scientologists I was very excited. Jubilee is a...
211 – "They Would Track Me": Why I Had to Run Away at 21 and Leave a Note on the Basement Door
This episode features the story of Darby, a 32-year-old former Jehovah's Witness, detailing a life shaped by generational indoctrination, intense familial and organizational contro...
210 – "I Was Petrified": Ex-Jehovah's Witness Experienced "Constant White Knuckle Paralytic Terror"
This episode is the personal testimony of Micah, a 42-year-old former Jehovah's Witness, detailing his life within the organization, his subsequent departure, and his journey towar...
The Shunned Podcast Meets Jubilee To Discuss Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology
I was very fortunate to be able to travel and record an episode of Jubilee along with other ExJWs and Ex-Scientologists as we discussed our lives and the groups we came from. The...
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