SPOTLIGHT: The Culting of America with The Knitting Cult Lady

Dillon & Desimber sit down with Daniella Mestyanek Young, "The Knitting Cult Lady", for a powerful conversation about survival, identity, belief, and the systems that teach us who we are allowed to become. Daniella is the bestselling author of Uncultured and co-author of The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them. Raised in the Children of God, a notorious sex cult, she survived an upbringing shaped by control, abuse, isolation, and indoctrination before eventually building a life far beyond the world she was born into. We’ll talk about Daniella’s extraordinary life story, what cults actually look like from the inside, why intelligent people can become vulnerable to high-control groups, and how the dynamics of cultic thinking can show up in religion, politics, institutions, and American culture. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.