Het sinistere life coaching bedrijf dat je leven overneemt. Catrin Nye gaat op onderzoek uit. Begin 2019 kreeg Jeffrey Leigh-Jones uit Portsmouth een levenscoach. Iemand die hem in het leven begeleidt en hem helpt zijn zakelijke ambities te verwezenlijken.
Twee jaar later had Jeff zijn huis verkocht, lag zijn relatie in stukken en had hij tienduizenden ponden overhandigd. En hij was niet de enige. In dit achttien maanden durende onderzoek voor de BBC leggen journaliste Catrin Nye en haar team controle, intimidatie en angst bloot bij een mysterieus bedrijf voor levenscoaching dat de levens van mensen overneemt en gezinnen uit elkaar rukt. Naarmate het onderzoek vordert, vecht de groep terug en volgt er een surrealistische laatste confrontatie.
The sinister life coaching company that takes over your life. Catrin Nye investigates.
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.
It’s the final showdown. The BBC team finds out there’s been another investigation going on in parallel to their one. It’s by the Government, who want Lighthouse shut down.
Lighthouse International Group end up in court, and more than 20 team members crowd into the hearing room, squashed alongside the BBC as well as Jeff and Dawn. Catrin finally gets to put her questions to Lighthouse and their leader Paul Waugh, and a massive crowd piles down a central London street as she tries to get answers.
What happens when a life coach takes over your life? Catrin Nye and her team expose control, intimidation and fear at a sinister life coaching company.
Reporter: Catrin Nye
Written by: Jamie Bartlett and Catrin Nye
Producers: Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main & Jo Adnitt
Researcher: Aisha Doherty
Executive Producer: Ravin Sampat
Sound Mixing: James Bradshaw
Original Music by: Phil Channell
Commissioner: Rhian Roberts
