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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Let’s Talk About It 8/9/24

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

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

The devastation of financial abuse, as experienced by Lora, a Maine nurse, and explained by Jeannine, a domestic abuse survivor/victim’s advocate with Finding Our Voices.

Topics:
1. Financial Abuse
2.Sexual Abuse
3. Manipulation of Abusers

Guest:
Lora and Jeannine. Jeannine is a survivor from Southern Maine who led the passage of LD 947: An Act to Address the Long-Term Impact of Economic Abuse by a Spouse. findingourvoices.net/jeannine-archive
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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 7/12/24

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

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

He strangled her, tried to smother her, forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills and a judge lowered his bail so he could be released from custody.

Topics:
1. Domestic violence murder hidden as suicide
2. Puffball sentencing of domestic abusers
3. Reckless Maine judges

Guest:
Anonymous

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 6/14/24

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

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

A man talks about being abused by a woman.

Topics include:
The Power and Control Wheel, the specific challenges of being a man abused by a woman, the similarities of men being abused by women and women being abused by men.

Guest:
Anonymous

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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