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A Little Bit Culty is a wildly compelling podcast and a vital speaking series. It aims to help audiences understand, heal from, and avoid abusive #cultculture. Show hosts and former NXIVM members Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames are best known as whistleblowers in HBO’s critically acclaimed documentary series, The Vow.

Sarah Edmondson is a Canadian actress and a celebrated voice-over artist. Her acting credits include the CBS series Salvation and over a dozen Hallmark and Lifetime films. In addition, she is the best-selling author of the memoir, Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM. Her harrowing fight to get out made global headlines. Anthony “Nippy” Ames, an actor and former college athlete, became an Executive Producer of A Little Bit Culty. He is an emerging voice in conversations about upstanding men, husbands, and fathers today.

Anthony “Nippy” Ames and Sarah Edmondson have burning questions to ask. They invite ex-cult members, experts, and whistleblowers onto their platform. The presentation format is a deep dive into the expanding “cultiverse,” covering mind control, MLMs, and more. Moreover, they ensure that victims are never shamed but always taught the red flags of cult life. Consequently, the A Little Bit Culty hosts provide valuable lessons on recognizing manipulation.

Furthermore, the mission of A Little Bit Culty extends beyond just their personal story of resilience. Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames lead frank conversations with fresh insights and a surprising amount of laughter. They provide crucial, evidence-based tools for recognizing subtle manipulation. Therefore, their message translates powerfully to any organization seeking to foster healthy, non-toxic environments. Specifically, they help audiences navigate boundaries, group dynamics, and blind loyalty in both personal and professional life.

Overall, A Little Bit Culty offers a unique, engaging presentation style for corporate, educational, and clinical audiences. It is not a typical cult show; it is a vital conversation about emotional safety and organizational behavior. In short, Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames combine their performing talents with truth-telling to empower and protect every audience member.

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Culture or Culty? A talk about building healthy teams at a time when burnout rates are high and work/life boundaries have never been blurrier.

Think your company could never be culty? A word of warning: That’s probably a sign that your organization is already more vulnerable than you think. In this interactive keynote, Sarah Edmondson and Anthony ‘Nippy’ Ames bring their hit ‘A Little Bit Culty’ podcast format directly to corporate teams in order to help them understand how things like coercive control, gaslighting, and word salad can easily turn a growing organization into a culty one. With clinical data on the science of cultic abuse, and personal anecdotes from their time in NXIVM—a workplace so culty that the founder is now doing 120 years in prison—this informative talk is a must for anyone interested in building healthy, connective teams in a burnout culture where work/life boundaries get blurrier by the minute.

Back from the Brink: A talk on charting your own trauma-informed path to emotional healing after the unthinkable happens.

After escaping and blowing the whistle on NXIVM, married couple Sarah Edmondson and Anthony ‘Nippy’ Ames had another job to tackle: Doubling down on healing themselves. In this candid keynote, they share what helps them continue to recover from the emotional, spiritual, and moral wounds they sustained during their 12-year cult experience and the aftermath of their highly public exit. Balancing evidence-based strategies from leading cult recovery experts with their own tried-and-tested practical tips and personal anecdotes, Sarah and Nippy’s presentation helps connect the audience to gentle ways of navigating everything from self-care and guilt to fight-or-flight mode and victim-blaming. You don’t have to be an ex-cult member to take away powerful insights on trauma, resilience, and recovery from their story. It’s a must-see for anyone with a stake in survivorship; from clinicians and caregivers to survivors and the people who love them.

Finding the green flags in a red flag world: a talk for seekers about safely navigating the spiritual marketplace and personal transformation industry

The multi-billion-dollar self-help and new age spiritual marketplaces are highly unregulated magnets for con artists, charlatans, and all kinds of culty types. As co-hosts of the hit ‘A Little Bit Culty’ podcast, Sarah Edmondson and Anthony ‘Nippy’ Ames help their audience identify and understand the ‘red flags’ that can indicate cultic abuse, coercive control, financial exploitation, and other abuses of power along the journey of self-transformation. But they also want you to know that living well isn’t just about spotting red flags: it’s also about embracing the green ones. As former NXIVM cult members turned whistleblowers, they’ve got some hard-won lessons to share that can help you avoid the pitfalls along the self-discovery path. They’ve also got practical tips on how to define the ideas, practices, and modalities that are healthy for you. In this informative and uplifting talk, the pair offers practical tips on spotting spiritual and self-help red flags, and identifying your authentic ‘green flags’. It’s not easy to cultivate openness and trust in a world that begs skepticism, but armed with their insights—you’ll be better prepared to seek safely.