Let’s Talk About It 9/12/25

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

The owner of a popular cupcake shop breaks her silence about a first husband who regularly strangled her.

Topics:
1. Abusive fathers
2. Impact of domestic abuse on siblings
3. Breaking the cycle

Guests:
Rachel Davis and Mary Lou Smith

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 7/11/25

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

The owner of a popular cupcake shop breaks her silence about a first husband who regularly strangled her.

Topics:
1. Misplaced shame.
2. Domestic Violence Strangulation.
3. How abusers do not change.

Guests:
Vicki Murray

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 5/9/25

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

When your ex tries to burn your house down with you and your daughter in it and is out of jail in less than a year.

Topics:
1. Broken Judicial System
2. Domestic Violence Arson
3. Impact of Domestic Violence on Children

Guests:
Agnes Brackett

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 3/7/25

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

When your ex who almost killed you is released early from prison to now be charged with strangling another woman to death.

Topics:
1. Broken Judicial System
2. Domestic Violence Strangulation
3. Impact of Domestic Violence on Children

Guests:
Darcia Maning and Dezarae Caron

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 12/12/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

When your best friend is murdered by her father.

Topics:
1. Guns.
2. Growing up with abuse.
3. Police and VA response to domestic violence.

Guest:
Kerry Smith whose mother’s boyfriend was abusive and whose best friend was murdered by her father.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 11/8/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Domestic Violence Homicide—Actual and Almost

Topics:
1. Strangulation.
2. From charmer to psychopath.
3. Femicide in Maine.

Guest:
Michelle, survivor; Kerry and Amber, best friends of two of the four women domestic violence homicide victims in Maine in October.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 10/11/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

He burned her house down, with her dog inside, and she is estranged from her children and grandchildren.

Topics:
1. Arson.
2. Sexual abuse.
3. Family siding with the abuser.

Guest:
Mary Kamradt, Chief of Staff of Finding Our Voices.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 9/13/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Caroline McKuen shares how her pastor minimized the financial and sexual abuse and criminal activity of her ex-husband.

Topics:
1. Financial abuse.
2. Patriarchal churches enabling domestic abuse.
3. Sexual abuse.

Guest:
Caroline McKuen, director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Coalition. More info at www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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