The Importance of Knowing Your Beliefs

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"I'm surrounded by all these people that I love and who love me," he says. "Their love and their understanding, not just of you, but of the world, right, that is the air that you breathe" He adds: "So when you grow up in an environment like Westboro where it is extremely doctrinaire...there's a lot of inertia there"

In this episode we sit down with Megan Phelps-Roper, the author of Unfollow, a memoir of her time in Westboro Baptist Church, and an exploration what it took to convince her to leave. I interviewed Megan for my upcoming book, How Minds Change, and in this interview you will learn all about assimilation and accommodation, cult deprogrammers, and the steps Megan says one must take if they want to change someone's mind.

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