Get A Life - Ex-Cult Conversations
Episodes
Get A Life Ep.70 with Lindy Jacomb and Craig Hoyle re Funerals
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Simmons lived her whole life in the Exclusive Brethren/PBCC, but never agreed with their harsh doctrine of separation. She was unable to leave b...
Get A Life Ep.69 with Craig Hoyle and Lindy Jacomb re Palmerston Party
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Palmy Party was an event like no other – was this just a dying convulsion of Bruce’s alcohol pickled brain, or was there some cold hard reaso...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 68 with Richard Marsh Sr.
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Richard Marsh had a stellar career starting as an engineer on the famous Concorde supersonic aircraft, moving on to found a pioneering robotic sub...
Get A Life Ep. 67 Re. Ken Symington
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered- how accurate all the stories told to us and shared with us are? In this episode, we share pieces of a JHS documentary that re...
Get A Life Ep.66 with Lynette Diener/Barrington Community
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Residents of the Chicago suburb of Barrington turned to the Get-a-Life team for help when the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church came to town. The se...
*Barrington protest PBCC church and school plan
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church plan to build a 17,000sq ft church, plus a school and superstore in Barrington IL, a suburb of Chicago. here a...
Get A Life Ep.65 with Tiffany Taylor
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TRIGGER WARNING- Suicide, self harm, abuse Join the Get A Life team and our special guest Tiffany as she shares her story, beginning at the age of 6...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 64 with Stephane Vergnon
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Stephane gets ready to celebrate his 30th year of freedom from the PBCC/Exclusive Brethren, he walks us through his journey that led him up to fin...
PBCC/Exclusive Brethren Survivor Stories
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you looking for more information on the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church? Are you needing a video to send someone to inform them of the PBCC pr...
Get A Life Ep.63 UK Team with Charity Commission
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2009 The Preston Down Trust applied to the Charity Commission of England and Wales to renew its charitable status. In June 2012 the Char...
Get A Life Ep. 61 with a former OneSchool Global teacher Part1
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to work at OneSchool Global? A former teacher in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s global schooling system courageously spe...
Get A Life Ep.62 with former OneSchool Global teacher Pt.2
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to work at One School Global? In Part 2 a former teacher from OneSchool Global explains the legal imperative on teachers to report s...
Get A Life Ep. 60 with guest Sarah Rowlands
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you are in the PBCC and fall in love with an outsider? Sarah describes what happened to her and how she and her family were so har...
Get A Life Ep.59 with guest Jono Thomas
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TRIGGER WARNING!-Discussion regarding suicide, bullying and sexual harassment. A podcast guest that hails from the Land Down Under, Jono Thomas joine...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 58 with Jeremy Indika
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TRIGGER WARNING- Discussion on sexual abuse How do we make a change in systems and organizations that are very avid in covering up sexual abuse? How ...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.57 with guest Emily Victoria
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, The PBCC in their charity commisions review declared that they would allow outside members to join and attend their meetings. Emily Victoria...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 56 with Floss (worked at UBT)
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warning-Discussions on suicide A drastic look from an outsiders perspective while working at UBT, Floss learned very fast where she was on t...
Get A Life Ep. 55 with guest Todd Coulter
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1978, after the Jonestown massacre in which 900 people died, police searching the cult’s compound found tens of thousands of doses of mood alter...
Get A Life Ep. 54 Discussion on OneSchool Global
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Woodbury joins us for a discussion on OneSchool Global. He shows us very disturbing messages he's received from concerned teachers and citize...
Get A Life Ep. 53 with guest Fergus Howard
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Rawlings and his young family were wrongly excommunicated in the 1970s. For 28 years, the family kept faith with Brethren doctrine, practicin...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 47 with guest Rowan Scott
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
3 years ago, Rowan Scott was asked to record on video an attempt to get a message to Bruce Hales (the leader of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Churc...
Get A Life Podcast Carman addresses Walt, Vern, and Ron Symington.
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975, Roy Symington killed his brother Kenny in a moment of reckless foolishness. His father, J H Symington laid it on Roy to take care of Kenny...
Get A Life Ep.52 with guest Dean Wheeler
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly all members of the PBCC are born into the community and know no different – unless they leave. However, Dean Wheelers’ parents left the PB...
Get A Life Ep 51 with guest Abi Thompson Part 3
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 3 of a 3 part series. Trigger warning! This podcast contains discussion regarding sexual abuse. Viewer discretion is advised. We merge...
Get A Life Ep. 50 with guest Abi Thompson PART 2
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
THIS IS PART 2 OF A 3 PART SERIES TRIGGER WARNING! THIS PODCAST CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL ABUSE. Abi takes us through some crucial points of wh...
Get A Life Ep. 49 with guest Abi Thompson PART 1
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
THIS IS PART 1 OF A 3 PART SERIES TRIGGER WARNING! THIS PODCAST CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL ABUSE. We welcome Abi Thompson, a very recent leaver,...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 48 with guest Murray Chattell
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was just another day at the office, but as Murray Chattell arrived, he burst into a torrent of tears. A sympathetic work colleague covered for him...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 46 with guest Stephen Gear
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you pick yourself up when you lose the family you love? Stephen Gear had to do just that when he left the control of the Plymouth Brethren Chr...
Get A Life Ep 45 with guest Lindy Jacomb
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*EDIT*- The whitebook Lindy refers to in this podcast is #603 not #161. The crime: a teenage girl, writing to PBCC leader Bruce D Hales with some ge...
Get A Life Ep. 44 with guest Cassie Davies
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cassie’s story will seem utterly unbelievable to anyone who has never been in the PBCC, but sadly familiar to the rest of us. One of 10 children ra...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 43 with guest Fritz Penney
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Another brave young man speaks out about how it feels to be gay in the brethren. Fritz talks openly about how different he felt in an very closed com...
Get A Life Podcast Ex-cult Conversations Episode 42 Damian Hasties
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Damian Hastie's investigations in to the PBCC have already been published in The Times - probably the most famous newspaper in the world. Here he...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 41 with guest Ross Turner
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TRIGGER WARNING This podcast contains discussions about suicide. Viewer discretion is advised Join us as we explore with Ross Turner how it feels to...
Get A Life Podcast Ex-cult Conversations Episode 40 Ben Woodbury
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We can't get enough of Ben Woodbury! Here is the much anticipated Part 2 of the podcast where Ben exposes how the Hales dynasty deleted a whole c...
Get A Life Podcast ex-cult conversations. Episode 39 Michael Bachelard
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bachelard is Bruce Hale's nemesis. Having blown the cult's appalling history of political, financial and sexual crime wide open in nu...
Get A Life Podcast Ex-cult conversations Episode 38 The Beresfords
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diversity is the key to the "Get A Life" podcast's success. Persons who escape from the "penguin colony" uniformity of the PBC...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 36 with guest Ben Woodbury
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Woodbury from Windsor, Australia has an incredible and damning story about his life in and out of the PBCC. He also has a mind-blowing talent for ...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 35 with Guest Gilli (John Gilliland)
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TRIGGER WARNING This podcast contains discussions about sexual abuse and suicide. Viewer discretion is advised. Join us as we listen to Gilli’...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 34 with John Spinks and the NEW UK team
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to how our guest John Spinks decided as a young man to make his escape from the PBCC cult and what his plan for leaving looked like. John...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 33 with Daniel Mounter
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Mounter’s brothers and sister were unjustly torn taken from their gentle and unworldly parents and fostered out to other families for years, ...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 32 with Dennis Wragge
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Wragge shares his experiences with the so-called "great men" JTJr and JHS. His eyewitness accounts shatter the illusion of perfection that has ...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 29 Sydney Seminar 2023 Review
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listening to the Sydney Seminar recordings from our insiders brought to light how far away from Christianity the PBCC really have gotten. Their ruthle...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 31 Aberdeen
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us in digging up a very pivitol part of the Exclusive Brethren/PBCC's past. Aberdeen is an unspoken time within the Brethren that has been locked...
Get A Life Ep. 30 with guest Dan Middleton
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Dan Middleton as he takes us on a refreshing journey of his travels across the world. His presentation is sure to inspire anyone have doubts abou...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.28 with Rob McLean
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Could you imagine waking up one morning and being told not to come to a church service and then finding out after someone had the power to play God wi...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.27 with Carman Drever re Ken and Roy Symington
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kenny Symington’s death shook the very foundations of the PBCC – but the truth about who killed him has been a carefully guarded secret until now....
Get A Life Podcast Ep.26 with David and Nicé Shorto
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join our special guests Dave & Nice’ Shorto as they share their inspirational journey leaving the PBCC. This beautiful couple kept their f...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 25 with guest Mike Kropveld
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with Mike Kropveld from infosecte.org to discuss the help they can offer. Michael Kropveld is Founder and Executive Director of Info-Cult,...
Get A Life Podcast Ep 24 with Guest Bradley McCallum
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us and our special guest, Bradley McCallum as we walk through Brad’s attempts to leave the PBCC. To try to prevent Brad leaving, the PBCC...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.23 with special guest Tina Nystrom
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Nystrom walks us through her families journey when they decided together to leave the PBCC. Tina has been extremely effective in holding the PBCC...
Get A Life Podcast EP 21 with Guest Jen Hope, Tracy Hope and Dennis Hope
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where there is Hope, there is Life and in this episode we have a lot of Hope happening. Join our 3 guests as we discuss 40 years of cultic abuse! Imag...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.19 Strive 23/One School Global*
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OneSchool Global is the PBCC school system where 9000 students are educated according to the cult's "ethos". Not a single one of those students will a...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 18 with guest Ros Atmore
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We knew this story had to be told to inspire those marriages that get separated by the indoctrination of the PBCC. Ros show us that it is possible to ...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 17 with guest Jacky Hart
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us and our special guest Jacky Hart as we discuss the Charity Commission and the time period when the PBCC lost their charitable tax status! Coul...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.16 2022 Year in Review
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cheryl, Carman and Richard on New Year's Eve as they take us through the antics of the PBCC of 2022. We review from the beginning of the year how...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 15 with guest Anne Hamilton
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Hamilton takes us through her heart wrenching story of her life that lead her into being excommunicated. Her love for her children exudes through...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 14 with Guest Peter Hart Pt 2
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dare to question translations of the Bible you are being taught! How deep has the doctrine of Bruce Hales gotten inside the PBCC? Do they choose the w...
Get A Life Ep.13 with Guest Peter Hart
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Peter Hart finds himself in the bullseye of Bruce Hales target after he asked a simple question in the meeting! It goes from bad t...
Get A Life Podcast Ep.12 with Guest Jill Aebi-Mytton
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We jump into the library of knowledge inside Jill Aebi-Mytton. She gives us an inside view to the history of growing up in the 40's and 50's in the Ex...
Get A Life Podcast Ep. 11 with guest Braden Simmons
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Braden fills us in on the antics and activities of the PBCC in New Zealand over the past years. His humour helps us digest the ridiculous behaviors of...
Episode 10 - Jim Clarkson
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine the strength of character instilled in this gentleman when at the age of 22 after being told he was of a reprobate mind our guest left the onl...
Episode 9 - Craig Hoyle reflects on being gay in the PBCC
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Embark on an "encouragement trip" with our special guest, Craig Hoyle to the land down under as they try to fix him being gay! They eventually prescri...
Episode 8 - Beth Seed
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with another PBCC sexual abuse survivor who takes us along her horrific abuse. At age 8, Beth was placed with another family when her pare...
Episode 7 - Leaving the PBCC, Our Stories
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we respond to a viewers request to explain how we got out and what it was like in the real world for each of us. We reminisce on what it was...
Episode 6 - What It's Like Working for the PPBC with Christine
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
***This episode contains discussions about suicide. Viewer and listener discretion is advised.*** Walk with us as our special guest Christine describe...
Episode 5 - Lara Payne's Story
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
***This podcast contains discussions about sexual abuse. Viewer and listener discretion is advised.*** Lara invites us into her harrowing story while ...
Episode 4 - Carman Drever's Story
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We dive in with Carman Drever to discuss the abuse she witnessed inside the PBCC at Maple Creek. After being driven out of town Carman began to see ho...
Episode 3 - The PBCC and Religious Trauma (with Pam Danylchuk)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Danylchuk dives in on what it was like to leave the cult and their misogynistic policies of the PBCC. She describes the painful memories of h...
Episode 2 - What are The Klondike Papers? How does the PBCC influence Canadian politics?
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Marsh takes us through his role in the Klondike Papers and leads us into a heated discussion on politics and the PBCC. The PBCC will not allow...
Episode 1 - Who are the PBCC?
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to the PBCC community and the trail of trauma it has left behind. We begin to dive into the fears of leaving and how the world outside...