Let's Talk About It
Our founder/CEO Patrisha McLean and her fellow survivors — including those who grew up in it— get real in conversations about how complicated and dark domestic abuse is, and what it takes to get over to the bright side.
Music is by Jackie McLean Strack, the host’s daughter. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1M6qI3IXGTAAKFEZNLGr13
The “Let’s Talk About It" podcast airs on WMPG-FM out of Portland run by community members and students at University of Southern Maine https://www.wmpg.org .
A version runs as a monthly radio show on WERU-FM out of Orland Maine https://archives.weru.org/category/lets-talk-about-it/.
Episodes
18 episodes
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 include: ...
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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 become a wel...
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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, an...
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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 Jorgensen. Shelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifu...
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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: Sexual abuse, arson, estrangement from chi...
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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 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 childr...
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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: 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: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when you are worried for...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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58:00
Sexual and Financial Abuse Across 40+ Years
Guests: 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 financia...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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58:00
It Happens in Rich Families, Too
Guest: 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
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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: Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights, bail reform
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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41:26
No Justice, No Safety II
Guest: 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 Inte...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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58:00
No Justice, No Safety I
Guest: 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 abuse
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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58:00
When Your Abuser is a Celebrity
Guest: 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...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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58:00
Mother & Daughter
Guest: 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, triangulatio...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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57:59
When The Rights of A Father Trumps the Safety of the Child
Guest: 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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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57:59