# Parvati Shallow - From Surviving a Cult to Winning Survivor Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation-1320347/parvati-shallow-from-surviving-a-cult-to-winning-survivor Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation-1320347/parvati-shallow-from-surviving-a-cult-to-winning-survivor.md Podcast: [Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation-1320347) Published: 2026-02-11T08:01:00+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation/tm-parvati-shallow-1-6-master Audio file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/f804eed6-dd2f-4bf9-ba37-b2de011a8b27/9a03d8f2-a034-440c-aec2-b3e8001996fb/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=462fb424-93c4-4e4b-8e00-b2de011a8b44 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation-1320347/episodes/parvati-shallow-from-surviving-a-cult-to-winning-survivor Duration seconds: 3178 ## Resource This week, the show is joined by Parvati Shallow, two-time Survivor winner, current cast member on The Traitors, and author of Nice Girls Don’t Win: How I Burned it All Down to Claim My Power. Parvati shares about her childhood growing up in the Kashi Ashram, a high-control commune led by Joyce Green–or, as she made everyone call her, “Ma”. She discusses Joyce’s origin story and how she claimed to have experienced the stigmata, Joyce’s relationship with Ram Dass (who he later said he’d been bamboozled by her), and how she became increasingly coercive and controlling, including taking children from their parents and instructing members to scam their own families for money. Parvati reflects on how her parents escaped but ultimately came back to the group, what it was like living on the commune and being wild in nature, and how surviving that environment shaped her instincts, resilience, and ability to read people–skills that later helped her win Survivor, and how she’s now unpacking what it means to reclaim her power on her own terms. SOURCES Nice Girls Don't Win See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation-1320347/episodes/parvati-shallow-from-surviving-a-cult-to-winning-survivor/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/trust-me-cults-extreme-belief-and-manipulation-1320347/parvati-shallow-from-surviving-a-cult-to-winning-survivor.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.