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No Way Out: Inside the Circle of Hope | Amanda Householder

Podcast: Secrets of the Underworld
Published: May 19, 2026
Duration seconds: 3211
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Amanda Householder grew up inside the troubled teen industry — not as a student, but as the daughter of its operators. Her parents ran Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in rural Missouri, a facility that used religion, forced labour, isolation and physical abuse to control the young women in their care. Amanda takes us from her earliest memories of life inside faith-based group homes, to the moment a TikTok video went viral and finally brought the ranch to the attention of authorities. She opens up about the punishment systems, the staff who stayed silent, the town that looked the other way — and the personal trauma she has carried for decades. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.