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This issue of Lady Whistleblown’s Brethren Dispatch examines the growing controversy surrounding the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) and their involvement in the Australian election. While public statements suggest their actions were simply a reaction to being labelled a “cult,” a very different story is emerging—one of coordination, planning, and a narrative carefully crafted after the...

⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse and trauma. This episode is one of the most important conversations we’ve had. We are joined by psychologist and survivor Maria Esguerra, alongside Gilly and Cheryl, to talk openly about child sexual abuse, trauma, and the reality of growing up in high-control groups and cults. This isn’t an easy conversation to have but it’s an importa...

Peter’s journey begins with an anomaly. His lineage into the brethren was an unusual one. It was a pathway into the brethren that that was rare enough to single him out as it was not the accepted norms of becoming a brethren member. As Peter grew up, another truth surfaced – one that he could not hide or pray away. What followed was a life of quiet rebellion against a world where deviation from br...

What happens when a group that does not recruit… suddenly does? In this latest dispatch, Lady Whistleblown turns her attention to a most curious situation within the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church — one where long-standing rules appear to bend, narratives quietly shift, and certain details do not quite align. Whispers within the Ton suggest that the story being presented publicly may not be th...

In this edition of Lady Whistleblown’s Brethren Dispatch, society finds itself discussing a most delicate matter — the curious relationship between loyalty and money. Within the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, loyalty is often spoken of as a spiritual virtue. Yet for years, whispers have circulated suggesting that business opportunities, financial arrangements, and influence sometimes appear t...

A gentle note for anyone concerned about the strong language in this episode: what you hear on this podcast is about a tenth of the language that circulates inside the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church itself. So if the odd f-bomb causes distress, you may wish to prepare yourself accordingly. In Part Two of our conversation, former member Dawson Ching returns to the Get A Life Podcast to speak op...

In this edition of Lady Whistleblown’s Brethren Dispatch, a most curious spectacle is placed under the lens of polite society. What began as a modest weekly chronicle of whispers has quickly grown into something rather more substantial. As reports accumulate regarding the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church and its charitable arm, the Rapid Relief Team, Lady Whistleblown observes the increasingly e...

In this dispatch, Lady Whistleblown examines disturbing testimony now emerging from within the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) — testimony that some observers have begun referring to as “The PBCC Epstein Files.” A survivor describes years of abuse beginning in childhood within the Brethren community, allegedly involving multiple men in positions of religious authority. The survivor later...

From the Desk of Lady Whistleblown Dearest Gentle Reader…Every society — whether gathered in grand ballrooms or behind far more modest doors — possesses its own peculiar customs, alliances, and whispered intrigues. And where such intrigues exist, there will always be someone observing them. You may think you know where the truth resides. You may believe the stories circulating among polite company...

In this short follow-up video, former Plymouth Brethren member Steve Simmons responds to the growing controversy surrounding the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) and its use of legal action against former members who speak out. Steve urges Brethren members to watch the Get A Life Podcast episode “Corruption Creek”, episode 161, which exposes serious allegations of abuse, cover-ups, and th...

In Part Two we continue with the chirping and muttering of the Mog, who warmly endorses ICE, and praises Trump’s global tarrifs, which ironically, have just been declared illegal and void by the Supreme Court. It is strange to hear Bruce D Hales speaking so authoritatively on the governance of great nations, while his own sorry banana republic collapse around his ears, and to hear him enthusing ab...

Richard lays down the facts so clearly you can taste it. There’s no hedging, no softening, no dancing around it. He walks through what fair use actually is, calls out the gaslighting coming from the PBCC and their lawyers, and sets the record straight on a SLAPP suit they now appear to be backpedaling from. This isn’t outrage for the sake of it — it’s someone explaining exactly how it’s being twis...

Today the PBCC published on their website an attempt to justify their heinous actions in suing sexual abuse whistleblower Cheryl. This is her response. Link to Insiders- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mi2511aobligz6u6hwh41/Cheryl-response-to-PBCC.mp4?rlkey=vn94k7g1b5s43ahk4k2y15vmc&st=5dvcflg0&dl=0Link to emails between her and maple creek- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h6rvh14pism3hiy23bakv/ALZD...

The ATO raid on the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s HQ took place 2 years ago, and since then, a series of consequences and related events has played out, some in public, and some behind closed doors. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the real picture is a mystery until all these pieces are assembled and that is what Get A Life does for you in this episode. What emerges is three names. Three ex...

Anke Richter — international journalist, author of Cult Trip, and founder of Decult — delivers a clear and uncompromising message about how high-control groups silence their critics. Before Decult’s 2024 cult awareness conference, there was fear about even mentioning the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church because of their reputation for litigation. But the truth was spoken anyway. Anke lays bare t...

Gilli delivers a direct and unapologetic message to the PBCC. What does the Rapid Relief Team really represent? Compassion or control? Care or cover-up? When abuse is disclosed, we don’t see protection. We see intimidation. We see legal threats. We see attempts to silence. Cheryl’s case exposes exactly how far they are willing to go to protect their reputation over people. The doors may be closed...

https://gofund.me/6968e14d7 - Save Get A Life Legal FundCheryl lays bare the emails, the refusals, and the protection surrounding Alan Drever and the PBCC and why transparency, witnesses and recording were resisted at every turn. Cheryl speaks directly about Alan Drever, and about the testimonies and allegations involving members of his family, including Arden Bond and his sister, Rhonda. Cheryl d...

This video is addressed directly to the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Steve Simmons has been a fierce advocate for Cheryl in her fight for justice, and in this message he says what the PBCC continues to refuse to say themselves. While serious and well-documented allegations remain unanswered, the church has chosen silence and that silence is deliberate. The PBCC has continued to push out car...

The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s charitable arm, the Rapid Relief Team (RRT), has launched a legal SLAPP action against Cheryl and the Get A Life podcast. Filed in California, the lawsuit accuses Cheryl of copyright infringement over RRT’s “Cookie Bird” cartoon mascot. The claim is false and dishonest — and it serves a far more serious purpose than protecting a cringeworthy cartoon kookabu...

We continue Jason’s story as he leaves the PBCC, then makes a second, painful attempt to go back in, not because the system deserves another chance, but because the pull of family connection is deliberately weaponized by this calculated, coercive cult. The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church knows exactly what it is doing when it severs ex-members from their families, then cloaks that cruelty in po...

Jason Pittock takes us on a journey around the globe, from the leafy London suburbs of Bromley, to the windswept coast of Argentina, and then onward to the very heart of darkness, Bruce Hales’ personal interrogation chamber, inside the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s Australian HQ. Here the so called “Man of God” with the help of his evil sons, “smashes” Jason, in an attempt to render him sub...

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of suicidal thoughts. In this episode, Jolie Cooper shares her courageous story of growing up transgender in the Exclusive Brethren/PBCC. What does it mean when you feel like you were born in the wrong body, and how do Brethren priests react when they find out? Jolie, who became a married father with four children, always felt like a woman inside -...

They tell you to give more, host more, sacrifice more while leaders flaunt wealth without apology. In this video, Richard breaks down why insiders are quietly pulling back from entertaining, how status and money have reshaped the culture, and why a pair of $3,300 Louis Vuitton shoes says more than a thousand sermons.

Richard does a very thorough dive on what really happened to cause this exposure. Are the Hales boys to blame? Is it time to really look at who is causing this catastrophe? #plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch #pbcc #exclusivebrethren #oneschoolglobal #rapidreliefteam #ubt #cultescape #cultawareness #cult

When the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church announced an unprecedented Woman’s Seminar recently, we were stunned! After 200 years of profound misogyny and exploitation, was the Handmaid’s Tale of the Real Housewives of PBCC finally coming to an end? Were women actually being allowed to think, to speak, to make decisions for themselves? Would there be female trustees and directors of ecosystem enti...