Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
This podcast is a series of conversations.
What started as a series of intimate conversations between Ruth and David that ranged from personal to professional experiences around violence, relationships, abuse, and system and professional responses which harm, not help, has now become a global conversation about systems and culture change. In many episodes, David and Ruth are joined by a global leader in different areas like child safety, men and masculinity, and, of course, partnering with survivors. Each episode is a deep dive into complex topics like how systems fail domestic abuse survivors and their children, societal views of masculinity and violence, and how intersectionalities such as cultural beliefs, religious beliefs, and unique vulnerabilities impact how we respond to abuse and violence. These far-ranging discussions offer an insider look into how we navigate the world together as professionals, as parents, and as partners. During these podcasts, David and Ruth challenge the notions which keep all of us from moving forward collectively as systems, as cultures, and as families into safety, nurturance, and healing.
We hope you join us.
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Episodes
Season 6 Episode 16: Centering Survivor Voices: How Scottish Services Shift Blame, Raise Fatherhood Standards & Heal Families
Season 6 Episode 15: When Seeking Safety Makes You More Vulnerable: Migrant Survivors' Dilemma
Season 6 Episode 14: Violent Crime & Religion: How Religious Teachings Are Used as Justification for Child Abuse
Season 6 Episode 13: Your Pet Is Not Safe When You're Not Safe: Understanding Animal Abuse in Coercive Control
Season 6 Episode 12: Power and Pulpits: The Truth About How Religious Leaders Groom Adults
Season 6 Episode 11: We Are Not Our Trauma: Exploring Post-Traumatic Growth Beyond Deficit Models in Therapy with Oli Doyle
Season 6 Episode 10: A Champion's Journey to System-Wide Change: A Conversation with Kyra Feetham About Transforming Practice
Season 6 Episode 9: See the Person, Not Just the Problem: Kelly Daley's Award-Winning Approach
Season 6 Episode 8: The Prevention-Response Nexus: Keeping Children Safe While Breaking Cycles of Abuse
Season 6 Episode 7: Every Man: A Candid Conversation on Male Violence and Social Change with Jackson Katz
Season 6 Episode 6: Broken Blue Line: Confronting Officer-Perpetrated Domestic Violence
Season 6 Episode 5: Coercive Control and Children 2025: Conference Insights from Melbourne
Season 6 Episode 4: The Paradox of Proximity: Understanding Domestic Abuse in Rural and Remote Communities
Season 6 Episode 3: Rethinking Gender-Based Violence Prevention: A Call to Action with Jess Hill and Michael Salter
Season 6 Episode 2: Coercive Control and Children
Season 6 Episode 1: "Just Leave": Examining Displacement-Based Responses to Domestic Violence
Season 5 Episode 13: Coercive Control & Children Conference Podcast: The Role of Language in Global Responses to Domestic Abuse
Season 5 Episode 12: Challenging the Gospel of Sacrifice: Faith, Domestic Abuse, and Institutional Transformation
Season 5 Episode 11: Empowering Children: Healing from Domestic Abuse with Dr. Asha Patel
Season 5, Episode 10: Beyond Presence: Redefining Responsible Fatherhood in a Domestic Abuse-Informed World
Season 5, Episode 9: Partnering vs. Practicing: The Hidden Bias in Professional Crisis Work
Season 5 Episode 8: The Myth of the Domestic Violence Incident
Season 5 Episode 7: Childhood Domestic Violence Exposure Is “Pivotal”: An Interview with Professor Daryl Higgins
Season 5 Episode 6: This Work is Sacred: An interview with Beth Ann Morhardt
Season 5 Episode 5: A Trauma History is Not An Excuse for Acting Abusively