Podcast, Leaving the Left for Liberty

The Psychology of Dissident Acts | Guest: Leslie Elliott | Ep 34

June 20, 2024

Sienna Mae Heath

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Leslie Elliott is the co-founder of Solid Ground, a peer support community for ordinary people navigating extreme ideologies. Based outside Seattle, she also participates in a strong homeschooling community.

In this episode, Sienna Mae Heath and Leslie Elliott explore the psychology of dissident acts. What makes a person resist groupthink? What are the qualities of a modern-day dissident? What combination of time, place, and deep care or value can motivate someone to speak their conscience?

Also watch Universities Are Sterilizing Language | Whistleblower Leslie Elliott | Ep 23.

This series is also available as a podcast on your app of choice. Follow Sienna Mae Heath on Substack, Medium, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Sienna Mae Heath

Sienna Mae Heath is a growth writer. Sienna is the star and writer of the short documentary Real Unity produced by Free the People and screened at the Anthem Film Festival (FreedomFest) 2021. She now hosts Food is Freedom exploring agriculture as the fertile soil of an organically forming society and Leaving the Left for Liberty where she interviews whistleblowers, dissidents, and other alternative voices in the Western World. Empowering misfits through flowing truth in timely essays and poignant poetry, her pieces have been featured on The Kim Iversen Show, The Equiano Project, Braver Angels Media, Medium’s Society, History, and Race pages, and The Independent’s "Conversations" along with her video poem, The Trampled Woman, on Free the People inspired by an incident at the Freedom Convoy. Locally in the Lehigh Valley, PA, she is known for cocreating a more beautiful world as The Sovereign Gardener and for developing The Hero’s Journey worksheet to guide survivors of abuse in telling their stories of liberation. Follow her on Substack, Medium, Instagram, and Twitter.

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