Nippy Ames

As an actor and former college athlete, Anthony “Nippy” Ames was drawn to NXIVM’s goals program. In his twelve years with the organization, he rose steadily up the ranks as a teacher, built centers in New York and Vancouver, and even met his now wife, A Little Bit Culty co-host, Sarah Edmondson. But when he learned that the company was, in fact, a dangerous cult, he wasted no time in doing exactly what needed to be done: Helping burn its carefully constructed public image to the ground.

With NXIVM’s notorious founder now behind bars facing a brisk 120-year sentence, Nippy isn’t planning on going quiet anytime soon. As executive producer of the A Little Bit Culty podcast, Nippy has come full circle back to what he was born to do: performing, creating, and truth-telling. He’s proving to be an emerging voice in the conversation around what it means to be an upstanding man, husband, and father today.