Karen Geier
Host of On Belief: A Podcast About Cults
Karen Geier is a writer from Toronto with bylines in The Guardian, Vice, New York Magazine, Medium's Premium Channels, Huffpost, Splitsider, SeriousEats, and many more.
Karen Geier has hosted 65 Episodes.
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Episode 318: Neurodiversity and Cults
February 22nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 2 mins
My guest Priscilla Eyles, a neurodiversity advocate and cult survivor joins me to discuss her experiences with two high demand groups and why neurodivergent people might be at greater risk for cult recruitment
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Episode 317: Unification Church
September 14th, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 39 secs
My guest joins me to describe their childhood and growing up a "Moonie"
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Episode 316: Cult City Tours
August 16th, 2021 | Season 3 | 18 mins 33 secs
Ted "the Tour Guide" Reinhard joins me to discuss living in Clearwater, Florida, home to the Church of Scientology, and his tour company, which takes participants on a tour of the Scientology buildings of Clearwater.
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Episode 315: Matthew Remski
June 21st, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 17 secs
In this episode, I discuss radicalization, cult hopping, de-radicalization and more with Matthew Remski.
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Episode 314: Janja Lalich
April 12th, 2021 | Season 3 | 14 mins 13 secs
Janja Lalich, Cult Researcher and frequent Cult Expert for Documentaries joins me to discuss her career and what we really know about how Cults work.
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Episode 313: Bikram Yoga
March 3rd, 2021 | Season 3 | 14 mins 44 secs
My guest joins me to discuss her time at a 2 month intensive yoga training and what she witnessed there.
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Episode 312: The Salvation Army
February 17th, 2021 | Season 3 | 16 mins 31 secs
My guest joins me to share her experience growing up in the ubiquitous yet mysterious organization.
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Episode 311: Growing up LDS
January 28th, 2021 | Season 3 | 18 mins 49 secs
In this episode my guest describes what it's like to grow up Mormon when you're different
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Episode 310: Jehovahs Witnesses and Growing Up
January 6th, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 47 secs
What happens when you're born into a high control group that targeted your mom when she was pregnant with you? My guest discusses growing up Jehovah's Witness this week in a supersized episode
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Episode 309: Church of Christ
November 25th, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 17 secs
My guest joins me to discuss how going to a school affiliated with the Church of Christ changed her in ways that still affect her today.
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Episode 308: Conspiracy Theories
October 14th, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 36 secs
Will Sommer (Right Richter & The Daily Beast) joins me to discuss the similarities between cult belief and belief in major conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon
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Episode 307: The Human Potential Movement
September 15th, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 42 secs
Guest Tobi Olowe joins me again to discuss the primordial soup of most cults we know today: The Human Potential Movement.
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Episode 306: Gender Critical Movement
August 26th, 2020 | Season 3 | 15 mins 13 secs
My guest joins me to describe how dealing with their own gender journey led them into the world of the Gender Critical movement online
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Episode 305: Men's Rights Activists
August 4th, 2020 | Season 3 | 16 mins 50 secs
My guest joins me to discuss his time in Men's Rights Activism, and how the love of a TV show is what started them down the rabbit hole.
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Episode 304: Independent Fundamental Baptists
July 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 5 secs
My guest Tony joins me to discuss the troubling details of being born into an Evangelical Christian tradition
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Episode 303: Zendik Farm
June 9th, 2020 | Season 3 | 16 mins 49 secs
Helen Zuman, author of Mating in Captivity (https://helenzuman.com/books/mating-in-captivity-a-memoir/) joins me to discuss her time in the Zendik Farm Intentional Community