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Let's Talk About ItWhen Your Criminal Tormenter is Let Out of Prison Early and You Become a Virtual Prisoner in Trying to Keep Yourself and Child SafeGuests: Agnes BrackettAgnes discusses trying to keep her daughter safe from her gun-toting, fire-starting husband. Topics discussed: Child Abuse, Guns, Failure of Justice System2025-05-0958 minLet's Talk About ItWhen the Man Who Almost Kills You is Let Out Early From Prison and (Allegedly) Kills Another WomanGuests: 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 children2025-03-0757 min
Randiņš ar Rūdi#11 Patrisha atklāti par piedzīvoto mobingu skolas laikā“Randiņš ar Rūdi” #11 epizode kopā ar dziedātāju Patrishu. Mūsu saruna veltīta īpašai tēmai - mobings. Diemžēl jāatzīst, ka šī problēma joprojām ir aktuāla, un notiek ne tikai skolās, bet arī starp kolēģiem, ģimenēs un citās vidēs. Patrisha padalījās ar savu piedzīvoto skolas laikā, kas bijis emocionāliem pārdzīvojumiem un grūtībām piepildīts. Tie notikumi un epizodes, par kurām stāstīja Patrisha, man pašam likās neaptverami un ļoti nežēlīgi, taču, kā jau iepriekš minēju, mobinga problēm...2025-02-261h 04Let's Talk About ItTeen Dating AbuseGuest: 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. Topics: Life360 cyber-stalking, suicide threats, alcohol, failure of judicial court system 2025-02-0758 min
ToxicEp. 104: Patrisha McLean Is a Survivor and Her Ex is Bitter About ThatPatrisha McLean survived nearly three decades of abuse by her [unfortunately still] famous ex, Don McLean, singer of "American Pie." Once free, though Don tried his best to discredit her in the media (sound familiar?), she started her own nonprofit to help other survivors of violence, aptly named, Finding Our Voices. It's been working on taking down abusive a-holes ever since, and we love her for it. She joins us today on Toxic to tell us more about it. (Apologies in advance for the sound issues in this episode. Amanda was having issues with her microphone.) ...2025-02-041h 06
Persistence U with LizbethBreaking the Silence: Patrisha McLean on Finding Our Voices and Transforming Trauma into AdvocacyPatrisha McLean, founder and CEO of Finding Our Voices, shares her personal journey from being the wife in a picture-perfect marriage to a survivor of intimate partner violence who now empowers others. Patrisha’s story highlights the courage it takes to leave a well-known partner amid public scrutiny and the transformative power of advocacy.From finding solidarity in unexpected places to launching a statewide movement to support survivors, Patrisha's work shines a light on red flags, green flags, and the importance of breaking the silence around domestic abuse. Her organization provides practical support, from financial aid to dental care, and bu...2025-01-1533 minLet's Talk About ItLosing Your Best Friend to Domestic ViolenceGuest: Kerry Smith – Kerry talks about the preventable DV murders of mother and daughter Jennie and Lisa Bailey in Bath. Topics include: Police response to DV, Veteran’s Administration response to DV, systemic changes needed2024-12-1358 minLet's Talk About ItDV Homicide, Almost and ActualGuests: Michelle, Kerry, Amber – Michelle, 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 include: Financial abuse, guns, family impact of abuse 2024-11-1557 minLet's Talk About ItIncarceration and Substance AbuseGuest: 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 become a wellbriety coach and published author. Topics include: Incarceration, Substance Abuse, Native culture2024-11-0858 min
Harmonious WorldA chat with jazz vocalist Patrisha ThomsonWelcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.For this episode, I interviewed jazz vocalist Patrisha Thomson about her recent album Wild is the Wind and especially about her extraordinary and inspirational project Imagine and Uplift.There is lots more in the pipeline from Patrisha - as we discuss - so please do keep an eye on her website for news!Alongside our conversation, you can hear extracts from tracks from Wild Is The Wind.Get...2024-10-2626 minLet's Talk About ItDomestic Abuse and ReligionGuests: 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, and Jennifer talks about the pious-acting husband who was anything but.2024-10-2458 minLet's Talk About ItWhen Your Father Kills Your MotherGuest: Shelly Edwards Jorgensen. Shelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifulashesmemoir.com/books/Topics: Child abuse, Siblings, Arson2024-10-1757 min
She Goes By JaneGloria Kidder Korzon with guest reader Patrisha McLean“Did you find the body?” a killer asks law enforcement 38 years after his wife went missing. When Gloria Kidder met her future husband at work, little did she know she was also meeting the man who would force her to experience an escalating pattern of violence ending only in her death.This week we’re joined by Patrisha McLean who started on her journey of activism for women’s rights upon the domestic violence arrest of her then-husband of 29 years, Don “American Pie” McLean. She is the founder and CEO of Finding Our Voices, a Maine sist...2024-10-1756 minLet's Talk About ItWhen He Burns Everything to the GroundGuest: 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: Sexual abuse, arson, estrangement from children and grandchildren. 2024-10-1057 minLet's Talk About ItTwo-parter: The Military and Same Sex AbuseGuests: Ashley and Dezarae.Ashley talks about how overseas deployments made him increasingly abusive at home. Dezarae talks about being terrorized by a girlfriend. Topics: The military, same sex abuse, impact on children2024-09-2657 min
Citas sarunasPatrisha iesaka ko klausīties mirkļos kad mīlestība "iekož"Viņa ir Latvijas Radio 5 mīlēta mūziķe, kas pazīstama ar dziesmām “Es Varu Būt Tā”, “Pilsēta no Lauskām”, “Visu un vēl vairāk”, taču jau kopš 9. septembra viņas hitu sarakstam varam pievienot “Love Bites”. Šorīt viesos pie mums dziedātāja Patrisha!2024-09-1621 minLet's Talk About ItWhen Your Pastor Sides With Your AbuserGuest: Caroline McKuenThe director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council talks about her church’s enabling of criminal, financial, and sexual abuse Topics: Religious abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse.https://www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org2024-09-1258 min
The Mike Wagner ShowLA based acclaimed jazz vocalist/community artist Patrisha Thomson with “Imagine & Uplift” !
LA based acclaimed jazz vocalist/community artist Patrisha Thomson talks about the “Imagine & Uplift” campaign featuring “Imagine a Better World”! Patrisha’s career spans decades promoting racial harmony, multi-generational understanding and social change through the arts, and began her amazing career listening to Count Basie’s “One O’Clock Jump” at 12, leads integrative arts classes while offering consultation for individual creative growth &group staff development, along with her other projects “Wild is the Wind”, “Create A Bridge”, “That Old Feeling” and more! Plus, her website provides a range of resources for individuals seeking to make a difference in voter registration, media literacy...2024-09-1132 minThe Mike Wagner ShowLA based acclaimed jazz vocalist/community artist Patrisha Thomson with “Imagine & Uplift” !
LA based acclaimed jazz vocalist/community artist Patrisha Thomson talks about the “Imagine & Uplift” campaign featuring “Imagine a Better World”! Patrisha’s career spans decades promoting racial harmony, multi-generational understanding and social change through the arts, and began her amazing career listening to Count Basie’s “One O’Clock Jump” at 12, leads integrative arts classes while offering consultation for individual creative growth &group staff development, along with her other projects “Wild is the Wind”, “Create A Bridge”, “That Old Feeling” and more! Plus, her website provides a range of resources for individuals seeking to make a difference in voter registration, media literacy...2024-09-1140 min
The Mike Wagner ShowLA based acclaimed jazz vocalist/community artist Patrisha Thomson with “Imagine & Uplift” !LA based acclaimed jazz vocalist/community artist Patrisha Thomson talks about the “Imagine & Uplift” campaign featuring “Imagine a Better World”! Patrisha’s career spans decades promoting racial harmony, multi-generational understanding and social change through the arts, and began her amazing career listening to Count Basie’s “One O’Clock Jump” at 12, leads integrative arts classes while offering consultation for individual creative growth &group staff development, along with her other projects “Wild is the Wind”, “Create A Bridge”, “That Old Feeling” and more! Plus, her website provides a range of resources for individuals seeking to make a difference in voter registration, media literacy, enhancing comm...2024-09-1140 minLet's Talk About ItIsolation and the Importance of FriendsGuests: Courtney Davis and Jess Jess introduced her best friend to him, then grew alarmed as he steadily turned Courtney into a shell of herselfTopics: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when you are worried for a loved oneShort film on Courtney here.2024-08-2258 minLet's Talk About ItSexual and Financial Abuse Across 40+ YearsGuests: Lora and Jeannine Lauber OrenA 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 mitigate financial abuse.Topics: Financial abuse, sexual abuse, divorce hellMore about Jeannine is here. The law Jeannine helped to pass is here: H.P. 553 - L.D. 748 law, "An Act To Provide Relief to Survivors of Economic Abuse".2024-08-1558 minLet's Talk About ItIt Happens in Rich Families, TooGuest: AnonymousWhat it was like having a childhood that on the outside seemed golden and glamourous, and on the inside was a “living hell”.Topics: Narcissistic fathers, living a lie, child abuse 2024-08-0957 minLet's Talk About ItNo Justice, No Safety IIIGuest: AnonymousHe strangled her and forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills, and is out on bail pending trial! Topics: Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights, bail reform 2024-07-1941 minLet's Talk About ItNo Justice, No Safety IIGuest: JoleneNo accountability from the courts and police make him scarier and scarier, to her, her children, the police and the public. Topics: Criminal court reform, good ol’ boy network, the folly of Batterer’s Intervention 2024-07-1258 minLet's Talk About ItNo Justice, No Safety IGuest: BethanyThis nurse’s ex has a 30-page criminal record and has violated protection from abuse orders 20 times with no consequences Topics: Uselessness of PFAs, do-nothing DAs, child abuse2024-04-2358 minLet's Talk About ItA Man Talks About His Violent FatherGuest: Randall Liberty, Maine's Commissioner of CorrectionsRandy talks with Patrisha about the impact his father’s violence toward his mother had on him and his brothers. Topics: Sons and fathers, sons and mothers, the importance of prison for violent abusers2024-04-2358 minLet's Talk About ItAbuse is Worse During the HolidaysGuests: Jolene, Jennifer, Tiffany, Gina, Sarah, and MarySix survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year.Topics: The role alcohol plays in abuse, being let down by the court system, child abuse2024-04-2358 minLet's Talk About ItWhen Your Abuser is a CelebrityGuest: Donna Kaz William (Body Heat) Hurt swept Donna off her feet when she was a young actress, and grew steadily more dangerous. Topics: Narcissists, fame as an enabler, career-sabotagingDonna is a feminist activist and author of Unmasked: Memoirs of a Guerilla Girl on Tour https://www.amazon.com/MASKED-Memoirs-Guerrilla-Girl-Tour/dp/1510709436https://variety.com/2022/film/news/donna-kaz-william-hurt-former-partner-surviving-abuse-1235208312/2024-04-2358 minLet's Talk About ItMother & DaughterGuest: Jackie Lee McLean The host of this Podcast talks with her daughter about how the abuse impacted them separately and also together and their path to healing.Topics: Child abuse, narcissistic fathers, triangulation Jackie is an executive of an IT company, and singer-songwriter who provides the music for this Podcast. More of Jackie's Music here.2024-04-2357 minLet's Talk About ItWhen The Rights of A Father Trumps the Safety of the ChildGuest: Amy Maine officials worked overtime to give full custody of her baby granddaughter to a two-time domestic violence felon. Topics: Family court dysfunction, child abuse, grandparental rights 2024-04-2357 min