Marcia Martin's childhood was marked by chaos—an alcoholic father, domestic violence, and a home where survival meant excelling elsewhere. That early trauma became the foundation for something extraordinary: a five-decade journey at the forefront of human transformation that would help build what we now know as the $48 billion self-help industry.

From her early mentorship with a mystical aunt to co-creating EST with Werner Erhard, Marcia reveals the raw truth behind the human potential movement's rise. Her new memoir, "Sex, Power and Transformation," exposes both the profound healing and terrible abuse that shaped an entire industry. This conversation goes beyond surface-level inspiration to explore the dangerous beauty of real transformation—the kind that requires dissolving back to your original essence before reconstituting into somethi ...