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The sinister life coaching company that takes over your life, Catrin Nye investigates.

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Catrin Nye gets a mysterious call that plunges her into an
unsettling world of self-help and cults. What happens when a life
coach takes over your life?

In early 2019 Jeffrey Leigh-Jones from Portsmouth got a life
coach. Someone to mentor him in life and help him realise his
business ambitions. Two years later, Jeff had sold his house, his
relationship was in pieces, and he had handed over tens of
thousands of pounds. And he wasn’t the only one. In this
eighteen-month investigation for the BBC, journalist Catrin Nye
and her team expose control, intimidation and fear at a
mysterious life coaching company taking over people’s lives and
ripping families apart. As the investigation hots up, the group
fights back, and there’s a surreal final showdown…

Listen to all eight episodes from Wednesday 5 April 2023.
Reporter: Catrin Nye Written by: Jamie Bartlett and Catrin Nye
Producers: Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main and Jo Adnitt
Researcher: Aisha Doherty Executive producer: Ravin Sampat Sound
engineer: James Bradshaw Original music by: Phil Channell
Commissioner: Rhian Roberts