Let's Talk About It
Patrisha McLean talks with the real experts of domestic abuse--survivors. Patrisha survived a 29 year abusive marriage to a celebrity, and CEO and Founder of Finding Our Voices https://findingourvoices.net/
Music is by Jackie McLean Strack, the host’s daughter.
Episodes
29 episodes
When Coercive Control Leads to the Murder of your Child
Guest: Sharon KennedyIn 2020 Sharon Kennedy was convicted of depraved indifference murder for the death of her 10 year old daughter Marissa. No physical evidence tied her to this murder and she maintains her innocence.
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59:15
When Your Ex Tries to Cut Your Head Off
GUEST: Katherine ErbesKatherine talks about almost being killed by her ex to see him get a plea deal and, four years after his release from prison, almost kill another woman.TOPICS DISCUSSED: Media abuse, sexual abus...
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57:59
Abuse is Worse During the Holidays
GUESTS: Jolene, Jennifer, Tiffany, Gina, Sarah, and MarySix survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year.TOPICS DISCUSSED: The role alcohol plays in abuse, being ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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58:00
When Your Abuser is a City Offical
GUEST: Liz Eckman Liz spoke to a Portland Press Herald reporter in 2022 to break the silence of her ex's arrest, and also lift the stigma surrounding domestic abuse. Read the article
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57:35
Financial Abuse
GUEST: Sarah Doucette Sarah is the author of Stronger Than That: A Domestic Violence Survivor Uncovers the Truth About Her Abuser. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Financial abuse, Religion as a factor in ...
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56:52
How the Family Heals From Abuse
GUESTS: Rachel Davis and Mary Lou SmithTwo-Parter – Rachel: When You Grow Up With an Abusive Father; Mary Lou Celebrating 20 Years of FreedomTOPICS DISCUSSED: Abusive fathers, how siblings are impacted differently by...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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57:59
When a Man is Abused by a Woman
GUEST: Anonymous (Male) Many similarities to abuse of a woman by a man are shared in this conversation with "Mark."TOPICS DISCUSSED: Emotional abuse, weaponizing of children, lack of resources for men abus...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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58:00
When You Break the Silence After 40 Years
GUEST: Vicki Murray, owner of Laugh Loud Smile Big bakeryVicki talks about what kept her silent and what it like to break her silence over 15 years of abuse including strangulation by the man she started dating at 17 years old.&nb...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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57:59
When You Become a Virtual Prisoner Because Your Ex Is Out On Early Release
GUESTS: Agnes BrackettAgnes discusses trying to keep her daughter safe from her gun-toting, fire-starting husband. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Child Abuse, Guns, Failure of Justice System
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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58:00
When Your Abuser is Let Out Early From Prison to (Allegedly) Kill Another Woman
GUESTS: Darcia and Dezarae Darcia and Dezarae discuss how the “sweetest man in the world” in prison turned evil upon release.TOPICS DISCUSSED Failed judicial system, strangulation, impact on children
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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57:59
Teen Dating Abuse
GUEST: Lilly DesRoberts Lilly, a 20-year-old UNE Biddeford pre-dental student, talks about how cyber-stalking and suicide threats by her boyfriend from high school plagued her first year of college.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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58:00
Losing Your Best Friend to Domestic Violence
GUEST: Kerry SmithKerry talks about the preventable DV murders of mother and daughter Jennie and Lisa Bailey in Bath. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Police response to DV, Veteran’s Administration response to DV, systemic ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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58:00
DV Homicide, Almost and Actual
GUESTS: Michelle, Kerry, AmberMichelle, a communications executive talks about an early marriage that almost killed her. Kerry and Amber talk about their best friends who were murdered by DV this year. TOPICS DISCUS...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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57:54
Incarceration and Substance Abuse
GUEST: Melody Melody, a Mi’kmaq native, realized when she connected with Finding Our Voices that domestic abuse is at the root of her substance abuse as well as incarceration. She talks here about how she transcended both to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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58:00
Domestic Abuse and Religion
GUESTS: Anonymous and Jennifer Two-parter about how religion helped to trap both women in domestic abuse and made it harder to get out.“Anonymous" talks about the Cantor who refused to give her a Get for a divorce...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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58:00
When Your Father Kills Your Mother
GUEST: Shelly Edwards JorgensenShelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifulashesm...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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57:59
When He Burns Everything to the Ground
GUEST: Mary Kamradt, Chief of Staff of Finding Our Voices Her home was destroyed and dog killed in a fire set by her ex, and her family sided with him.TOPICS DISCUSSED: Sexual abuse, arson, estra...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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57:59
Two-parter: The Military and Same Sex Abuse
GUESTS: Ashley and DezaraeAshley talks about how overseas deployments made him increasingly abusive at home. Dezarae talks about being terrorized by a girlfriend. TOPICS DISCUSSED: The military, same sex abuse, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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57:59
When Your Pastor Sides With Your Abuser
GUEST: Caroline McKuenThe director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council talks about her church’s enabling of criminal, financial, and sexual abuse TOPICS DISCUSSED: Religious abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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58:00
Isolation and the Importance of Friends
GUESTS: Courtney Davis and Jess Jess introduced her best friend to him, then grew alarmed as he steadily turned Courtney into a shell of herselfTOPICS DISCUSSED: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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58:00
Financial Abuse
GUESTS: Lora and Jeannine Lauber OrenTWO PARTER: Lora, A Maine nurse talks about financial abuse continuing with the divorce. Then Jeannine Lauber Oren of Finding Our Voices talks about the Maine law she helped get through to help...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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58:00
It Happens in Rich Families, Too
GUESTS: AnonymousWhat it was like having a childhood that on the outside seemed golden and glamorous, and on the inside was a “living hell”.TOPICS DISCUSSED: Narcissistic fathers, living a lie, child abuse&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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57:59
No Justice, No Safety III
GUEST: AnonymousHe strangled her and forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills, and is out on bail pending trial! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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