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 61 Episodes.
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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
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Episode 302: The Inner Matrix
June 3rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 44 secs
There are millions of self help books out there, but what happens when a self help book causes you to give up your life and go work for its author?
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Episode 301: 60s Political Cults
May 26th, 2020 | Season 3 | 19 mins 22 secs
Guest Tobi Olowe of the Impressions of America Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/impressionsofamerica/id1367243636) joins me to discuss political cults of the 1960s and the long shadow they have cast.
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Episode 228: Conversion Therapy
April 15th, 2020 | Season 2 | 15 mins 55 secs
Matt Ashcroft joins me to discuss his experience with Conversion Therapy and why he became an activist to speak out against it.
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Episode 227: The Troubled Teen Industry
April 7th, 2020 | Season 2 | 17 mins 9 secs
Meredith Yanuzzi and Miranda Sullivan from Troubled Podcast join me to discuss why sending your children to "Boot Camp" or "Reform School" is a terrible idea.