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A Little Bit Culty \u2013

In 2009, Laura Tucker attended a Sedona spiritual retreat and sweat lodge hosted by charismatic spiritual teacher James Arthur Ray. It all went tragically wrong, resulting in the deaths of fellow attendees Liz Neuman, Kirby Brown and James Shore. On this episode, Laura chats with Sarah and Nippy about her experience, what it means to practice safe spiritual seeking, and the dark side of self help.

More about today\u2019s guest: Laura Tucker is the host of the Free Your Inner Guru\xae Podcast, a photographer, writer, and a self-described \u2018recovering coach.\u2019 A creative at heart, Laura likes to explore, figure things out, create stunning visuals, and nuanced conversations.\xa0As an insight provoking leader and speaker, Laura has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and business leaders become more self aware so they can lead more intuitively. She is a former high school teacher, trainer, sales professional, multi entrepreneur, consultant and leadership coach. She survived the 2009 fatal \u201csweat lodge\u201d at a self help retreat in Sedona. You may recognize her from Enlighten Us, a CNN Films/Netflix documentary about the self help industry and the Wondery Podcast Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment. She has also appeared on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin and William Shatner\u2019s The UnXplained. Laura shares personal writing and nature inspired photography at lauratucker.com. Free Your Inner Guru\xae podcast episodes are released bi-weekly at freeyourinnerguru.com.

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The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.

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A Little Bit Culty is proud to support the #IGOTOUT project, which empowers survivors of cultic abuse to share their stories online as a catalyst for education, prevention, and healing. Learn more at igotout.org

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For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy \u201cAnthony\u201d Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty

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CREDITS:\xa0

Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames

Production Partner: Citizens of Sound\xa0

Producer: Will Retherford

Associate Producer: Jess Tardy

Theme Song: \u201cCultivated\u201d by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin

Additional Music Score by Will Retherford

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