Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life by Sarah Edmondson

Author:Sarah Edmondson [Edmondson, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: memoirs
ISBN: 9781797201467
Google: AwSfDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07THLKY2Q
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2019-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Effort Strategies

2010

Los Angeles

With all of the company’s traction and growth, the executive board decided that this was an opportune moment to raise the cost of our Ethos classes. I tried to fight this, to keep Ethos affordable for the community I had built. Clare’s response was that I should stop enrolling struggling actors and focus on enrolling a different echelon—people who can invest more money in their personal growth.

I wanted to punch her through the phone. I was actually a higher rank than she was, but as soon as she became CFO, any matter regarding money, sales, or business had to go through her. When I had a student in Vancouver who was sick in the hospital and couldn’t attend an intensive, Clare said maybe she’d look at whether she could give them their deposit back.

“No, Clare,” I said. “Give them all their money back!”

Another challenge that arose a few years later, stemming from the company’s desire to grow profit, was that Keith launched a whole new series of courses under the umbrella of Ultima, high-level, specialized studies focusing on specific areas of professional expertise. They included:

The Source, for students who wanted to become professional actors.

The Knife Media, to learn about media ethics and how to evaluate news sources in an ethical manner—based on data, not on opinion or projections.

Ethicist, which was supposed to teach you to ethically evaluate and make ethics-based decisions.

exo/eso, a combination of yoga, pilates, and other mat-based fitness disciplines.

Reverence, a mash-up of all the emotionally focused modules from previous trainings. This was for anyone who wanted to feel more at-cause or wanted to get better at state control.

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