From the Children of God to the Military - Daniella Mestyanek Young

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Speaking Up: Surviving Religions and Cults

Andrew Pledger

68 episodes

1 month ago

Andrew Pledger, a cult survivor, hosts “Speaking Up: Surviving Religions and Cults", a podcast that allows people to share their stories of abuse and religious trauma in various high-control groups. Speaking Up has ended but Andrew has other podcasts like "Surviving BJU: A Christian Cult" and "Beyond BJU: Exposing Fundamentalism." - Exvangelical Podcasts, Cult Podcasts, Deconstruction Podcasts - Support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/4ndrewpledger - Linktree: https://andrewpledger.mypixieset.com/links

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From the Children of God to the Military - Daniella Mestyanek Young

Speaking Up: Surviving Religions and Cults

1 hour 6 minutes 7 seconds

2 years ago

From the Children of God to the Military - Daniella Mestyanek Young

DANIELLA MESTYANEK YOUNG is an American author and speaker who was raised in the religious cult, Children of God. She later served as an intelligence officer for the US Army for over six years, making the rank of Captain, and became one of the first women in US Army history to conduct deliberate ground combat operations when she volunteered to serve on a Female Engagement Team and received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Daniella lives with her husband and daughter in Maryland and holds a Master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Harvard Extension School.

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