Daniella Mestyanek Young was born into the Children of God, as was her mother before her. She left as a teenager and put herself through school and university, then decided to join the military. Her fantastic book Uncultured explores many of the parallels between the cult and the armed forces. The New York Times called it, “A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn’t always think she’d live to tell her story."

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Links:

Uncultured — by Daniella Mestyanek Young, Macmillan, 2022
Daniella Mestyanek Young — official website
Daniella's Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn
Lost In Translation — Daniella's TEDx Tacoma talk, 20 December 2018

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Interview Episode: Uncultured with Daniella Mestyanek Young