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Into Quicksand: Kate Amber on How Cults Pull You In

Published: April 24, 2023, 8 a.m.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Landmark Worldwide is a corporation that offers personal and professional development programs with a total of over 2.4 million (!) past participants in 21 countries. Yikes on bikes\u2014that sounds a bit like NXIVM on steroids. Well, while Landmark isn\u2019t technically a cult, it certainly is \u201cA Little Bit Culty\u201d, with no shortage of spirit-stomping coercive control and intimidation in order to create \u201cA world that works for everyone by 2020.\u201d Wait, is that how 2020 went and we\u2019re just misremembering it?!\xa0

Today\u2019s guest, Kate Amber, survived Landmark and went on to become a badass expert on violence and abuse prevention after receiving her education from UPenn and the University of Salford. She\u2019s also gone on to create the PsychoSocial Quicksand Model\u2122\u2014take a listen to learn all about it, as well as the time she challenged a Landmark leader, and how she eventually got out, even if she didn\u2019t 100% want to (at the time).\xa0

Oh, and would you believe she has a Keith Raniere overlap? What a small, culty little world we live in.\xa0

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Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN\u2019s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

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