Most cult stories are told from the outside looking in. This one comes from the throne itself.
Andrew-Ryan Profaci didn’t stumble into the Love Has Won cult—he helped lead it. As “Father God” alongside the notorious “Mother God” Amy Carlson, he knew the inner workings more intimately than anyone who’s still alive to talk about it.
But before the cameras, before Dateline and HBO, before the viral memoir, there was a teenager whose father left his mother for a man. No explanations. No transition. Just sudden full-time custody with his dad and his dad’s boyfriend, limited access to his mom, and a head full of questions no one would answer.
That early abandonment and confusion didn’t just happen before the cult—it built the bridge straight into it.
Here’s where the story takes a turn most cult narratives don’t: Andrew woke up from the inside. Once he discovered the lies, the true operations, and the real intentions behind Love Has Won’s facade, he didn’t just leave—he began dismantling it. Single-handedly. Spreading truth to the thousands of online followers who still believed, pulling back the curtain while still inside the machine.
In this conversation, Andrew doesn’t give you the polished survivor speech. He gives you the mechanics: how cults actually work from the control room, how “spiritual awakening” becomes psychological imprisonment, how someone becomes a deity to others while losing themselves completely. And he maps the path back—through his own internal rebellion, through cancer, through deprogramming his own mind, through his FIRE and RISE system that he now uses to help others escape the beliefs and roles that cage them.
This isn’t a feel-good redemption story. It’s a blueprint for recognizing manipulation wherever it lives—in cults, relationships, jobs, families—and what it actually takes to reclaim your identity when you’ve forgotten who you were before someone else told you who to be.
If you’ve ever wondered how smart people end up in “obvious” traps, or if you’ve ever felt lost in a version of yourself that doesn’t feel real, this episode will answer questions you didn’t know you had.
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