Society & Culture · Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales
by Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales
For the curious & compassionate. Firsthand Survivor Stories of escaping cults, high-control groups & people. The Cults to Consciousness Podcast (and YouTube channel) is Hosted by Shelise Ann Sola (a former devout Mormon / CSA survivor) and her Producer husband, Jonathan Rosales. Not anti-religious but firmly anti-abuse, they aim to shed light on manipulative practices and systems, while promoting understanding and accountability. C2C has attracted a kind and engaged community who thoughtfully support their guests. Hit follow to join them on their advocacy mission! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This savvy show about systems of control is also deeply humane in its approach to survivors and frankly all of us.
So much is going on in my life right now and coming here and being able to identify and assign words to the things I’m struggling through is incredibly healthy and healing and assuring. Maybe one day I’ll reach out to see if I can tell my story…for right now I’m in the thick of it.
I absolutely love this podcast and the host. She asks how people are doing instead of just focusing on their past traumas. We still also get the full story, but I just find her so charming, caring and charismatic.
I felt a little skeptical of this podcast at first because the photos and headlines kinda feel like tabloids, but the host is truly lovely and I’m very inspired by her. She listens to people with no personal agenda and because of that people can go deep in their sharing. Being fully listened to is very rare and it’s just beautiful to witness it. It’s a bit like listening to memoirs. Thank you!
I started listening to this podcast bc I am interested in cults, cult behavior, and survivor stories. After binging a ton of these episodes, I have been disappointed at how many times the host says, “I don’t really know anything about this group” and proceeds to ask the guest to define the group. I would think she would want to have background on the group being accused instead of letting a victim be in full control of the narrative. Several of the groups who are exposed on here aren’t actually cults, but people had a range of bad experiences in their specific community and are now painting the entire group as a cult. I realize Shelise is careful with her disclaimers, but with this platform she should strive to be more informed before interviewing a guest so as not to wrongly condemn an entire group. As with anything, sometimes there is some bad, but that doesn’t mean the whole group is bad too.
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